<div class="floatright">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/36/Livia.jpg)</div><em><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Livia </span>- staying on the balcony to watch the games</em><br/><br/>Livia turned her head after a moment to see Patrocles, she smiled kindly at him a moment before giving a simple order to watch the proceedings as an exhibition was put on by the gladiators of the Ludus. She had deferred to him and her Doctore much over the past year, the necessity of having a male ear to hear her own thoughts and to know that she was doing right by her own Ludus being tantamount. Now she barely glanced at the blond godlike man as she turned back to give her attention to Manius. He stumbled a second time and instantly her arm tightened about him.<br/><br/><strong>"Perhaps you should see the medicus"</strong>she urged him but no sooner had she done so when the male servant who had brought them inside, returned to request Manius' presence. Loathe to release him she did so at any rate, smiling benignly as if relaying that nothing was wrong and yet everything about that day seemed to be. From the moment they had neared the Ludus the shouts of the gladiators had given her reason to think that mutiny had been a foot but she had given the matter no further thought for the heat had distracted her no end and her believe in Manius being a sound and noble man dissuaded the argument in her own mind.<br/><br/><strong>"I will continue to watch the games and await your return. With hope that your wife will join us on your return"</strong>it was the furthest thing from her mind and heart but she would not disclose further what settled there.<br/><br/>She sat upon a chaise as if reassuring him of her decision, smiling warmly as she glanced at the sands and gladiators below and yet she wondered on the matter of mutinous gladiators once more. For all that she had seen that day, Livia was sure they had probable cause no matter that they were but slaves and easily dispatched. Her considerate and compassionate heart could not deal so harshly with her own slaves, she knew this as a fact just as she knew her infatuation for Manius blinded her to his faults.