“All things are connected, child. Troy and Venice, and all the states and cities of the Mediterranean, for that matter, are branches grown from one root, which is…?” “The Empire of Carthage,” she grunted. “Why else would the varied peoples of southern Europe and northern Afrique speak one tongue, derived from ancient Punic?” “Because the Carthaginians burned everyone who wouldn’t,” murmured Baron Rikard, lazily watching three little boys pole a raft past.
