New Directions – Part I

The story takes place about twelve years before the events of Murder in-absentiaand during 63 BCE in Rome (just after the events of Catilina’s Riddle by Steven Saylor).

This story is fan-fiction. Gordianus the Finder is Steven Saylor, and isused without permission but with much love and admiration.

Egretia, 523 AUC

Never practice magic when you’re drunk.

I woke up naked, lying on the grass of a clearing next to a tree stump. It looked like a wooded hillside. I had no clue where I was. I onl...