‘I am sure he is on to me. He must know I am the guilty party’.

‘Nonsense Drustans, I am quite sure that you are safe. Nobody would ever suspect that a man tortured in the way that you were whipped and branded would really be an agent for the Vortigern. That would be taking things too far; it would be unheard of, in fact. The perfect cover, especially when Germanus, Lupus and Aureliana were witnesses to your extreme distress’.  

‘Don’t be so sure, Agricola. Germanus was the one who treated me after my rescue. He must have realised that my wounds were not as great as they should have been. If I had really been tortured like that in the citadel then I would have been in a far worse condition than I was when they got me back to the safe house’.

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