How to Live

Being a gladiator was disorienting after being a farmhand and a house slave. Other slaves roused him and Avery and the others every morning, brought him food and bathed him once a week. Dael quite didn't feel like a slave, but he wasn't free; he slept chained to a wall in a cell. Instead, he spent all day drilling - hand-to-hand, gladius, spear and shield, trident and net. Avery directed Dael and the others. And he stood beside them beneath the Colosseum as they watched their fellow gladiators fight an die, and he told them, when it was their turn in the arena, how to live.