` No more angry than wolves in a cage when their trainer walks among them . If he had turned his back an instant , or for an instant had ceased to hold their eyes , there would have been another Emperor made on the Wall that hour . Was it not so , Faun ? ' ` So it was . So it always will be , ' said Puck . ` Late in the evening his messenger came for us , and we followed to the Temple of Victory , where he lodged with Rutilianus , the General of the Wall . I had hardly seen the General before , but he always gave me leave when I wished to take Heather . He was a great glutton , and kept five Asian cooks , and he came of a family that believed in oracles . We could smell his good dinner when we entered , but the tables were empty . He lay snorting on a couch . Maximus sat apart among long rolls of accounts . Then the doors were shut . ' `` These are your men , '' said Maximus to the General , who propped his eye-corners open with his gouty fingers , and stared at us like a fish . ' `` I shall know them again , Cæsar , '' said Rutilianus . `` Very good , '' said Maximus . `` Now hear ! You are not to move man or shield on the Wall except as these boys shall tell you . You will do nothing , except eat , without their permission . They are the head and arms . You are the belly ! '' '
`` As XXXXX pleases , '' the old man grunted .
Asian Cæsar Faun General Heather Puck Rutilianus evening eye-corners trainer