<div align="center"><strong>Autolycus packs his things</strong><br/><em>Infirmary</em></div><br/>Autolycus hadn't expected the Pict to still be there when he returned from his bedroom, had expected her to bolt at the first opportunity and so it was a pleasant surprise to find her seated on the floor, drawing pictures on the sand.<br/><br/>"Yes, I am leaving," he explained as he heaped more things into the chest, walked around, picked things up at random only to discard them again. He could not take everything. Had to make choices and had to make them quick. And as he made them he spoke to Sorcha, not sure why, he doubted she understood even half the words he was saying but there was a kind of comfort anyway in speaking his thoughts out loud, to another person. "I've been... bad," he tried and explain. "Well, not bad. Done things the Roman's don't agree with... And as they make the law…" he sighed. "Its fine and proper to make a man cut his brother to bits in the arena, with sword and spear, for no other reason than to entertain. Yet somehow cutting them up in a neat and respectful way, with a clear scientific purpose in mind, even when they’re already dead, their soul gone, their body just a discarded hull… Is a crime."<br/><br/>"My Dominus has just made sure a lot of people know about my crime," he slammed the chest’s lid shut, turned the key to locked it. "And so I have to go."<br/><br/>"Technically..." he looked up at her. "You have to stay here."<br/><br/>She wasn't his to take. Manius' slave.<br/><br/>Well fuck that. Manius had broken his word to him, had betrayed him in a way that could put his very life in danger. But how would he take her out of here? Not like this, without chains, without even a collar to mark her for the slave she was. Making up his mind, Autolycus knelt to pick up the collar and leash he’d only just take off her.<br/><br/>"Sor-kha, Autolycus, out," he pointed to the door, then to the crude drawings she's made, "Horses."<br/><br/>He raised the collar to the height of her neck bu didn't put it on just yet.<br/><br/>"I need you to wear this."