<strong>Patrocles - On the balcony above the sands.   With Livia, Caris, and Cariad returning to the balcony.</strong><br/><br/><em>Good</em>, he thought, she was up quickly, more quickly then the Roman legionnaire.  Both staggered, but she rose first, shakily but recovering, and more importantly, it seemed that she was less dazed then him as she had landed on top of him and used his body to cushion her landing.  He saw her casting quick furtive glances side to side; looking, searching.<em>That's right, go for the blade.  You know it is there.  End him. </em>Then she must have seen it and she moved quickly, with determination, and took up the sword.<br/><br/>Patrocles stepped back from the balcony's edge and stepped back to Livia's side, behind her bare right shoulder.  He noted one of the other girls of the villa moving back from down the hallway.  She was a sight to behold with her large perfect breasts exposed to his eyes.  It took a minute for his eyes to travel above her swaying breast flesh and those deliciously tempting dark nipples.  When he did, however, he noticed that she looked crestfallen.<em>Maybe a lover for Dominus that can't bear the thought of his leaving without her.  Poor thing.</em>He would try to find time to comfort her later when Dominus was otherwise occupied.  For now he moved back to her side, pressing the flesh of his thigh into her bared shoulder to show her that he was present behind her once again.  In a subtle move, that he knew may cost him, he settled his left hand on her shoulder as well, feeling the soft skin on his fingertips..  The heat and excitement of the games must surely have gone to his head for him to be so forward.  At this moment there were only two things he wanted to do... join the combat on the sands or take Livia to one of the villa's many empty bedrooms and spend the next several hours giving her every reason to keep him in the privileged position of champion.<br/><br/>Resisting an urge to attempt looking downwards into Livia's bodice in order to view her full breasts he looked down onto to the sands instead, allowing it to distract him.  He was in time to watch the woman steal across the ground in three large bounds, sword poised to strike at the man's neck.<em>Yes... Finish it quickly...</em>