<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Livia / Aulus / Caris and Antonius </strong></span><br/><br/>She sat upon the seat that had once belonged to Manius, her hands stretching out along its arms and allowing her fingers to curl around the large lion heads at their tips. Her posture remained poised and graceful as Caris poured her mistress wine and placed it upon the table. At the mention of the guest that he would prefer water, she looked at him strangely before looking to her mistress again. Livia nodded her head.<br/><br/><strong>"You will forgive the delay on that"</strong>turning to her servant she ordered her to go and find the kitchen and to put some water to boil. The water was not healthy to drink unless it had been boiled of its impurities first. With all the house servants gone, Livia was not sure what was in abundance and what had been taken. It was to this end she hoped that Patrocles and the servant girl would report to her, not just on the human contingent within the Ludus but of the stock and furnishings.<br/><br/><strong>"Everything happened swiftly ... so it will take some time to organise this household and Ludus to my satisfaction"</strong>she glanced to the other man, only truly noticing his presence at that point. To neither of the soldiers did she bid to sit however, they were after all merely soldiers. She sipped her own wine as Caris left the room hastily to go in search of the kitchen. Placing the goblet upon the desk before her she eyed the men again.<br/><br/><strong>"What brought you here this day, I would hear it after all you could very well have killed my gladiator back there"</strong>it was still strange to think of that woman as being part of Livia's Ludus now but it was an acquisition she felt would be greatly beneficial.