

The money that Sorcha paid for Fallon was going to go toward buying the training facility and allowing the gladiatrices to be free women.Ĭai proposes that he buy Fallon because he does not want her to die and he cares for her. Sorcha warns her to keep it a secret that they are sisters. Her sister awards her her own sword back (it was she that paid an outrageous price for Fallon when she saw the sword) and she also gives Fallon her own sword that is its twin. She is conflicted with emotions, furious that her sister abandoned them but also happy to be reunited. At the ceremony she learns that the leader of the training facility is actually her sister, Sorcha, who she had believed to be dead. Eventually, she makes it to the ceremony that makes her an official gladiatrix. He says that he is one that keeps Caesar’s friends from turning on him.įallon is tested harder than any of the others. He is wondering what game she might be a part of. He tells her that the head lady of the training center bought her only after she saw her sword with the raven carved on it. She blurts that she is the daughter of a king. When she arrives she finds that there is animosity among some of the groups of gladiatrices.Ĭai visits Fallon often because he is curious about her. It is owned by none other than Julius Caesar, Fallon’s ultimate enemy.

When they finally make it to Rome, a training center for women purchases Fallon and Elka. Varro even saves Fallon’s life and Fallon saves Charon’s. On the way to Rome, they pick up an escort of Legionaries, led by Caius (Cai) Varro. The slaver, Charon, knows that they will fetch a good price. Together they prove that they are both fighters. She meets a girl that she reluctantly becomes friends with named Elka. She runs but is picked up by slavers and stashed away on a boat. Fallon runs away on her own but as she does she witnesses Aeddan murder Mael. Fallon tries to talk Mael into running away but his honor demanded that he confront Aidan instead. At a public celebration where Fallon had believed her father was going to name her as a warrior for the tribe, he publicly betroths her to Aeddan instead.
