The Sanctuary behind them was Artibasos’s legacy, he thought, and it might end up being what the Emperor Valerius II was remembered for, and it could be—it could be—why the world might one day come to know that the Rhodian mosaicist Caius Crispus, only son of Horius Crispus of Varena and his wife Avita, had lived once, and done honourable work under Jad’s sun and the two moons.

