“The auxiliaries from the Wall-fort at Coria have authorization only to deliver R Bet to Faustina. They will return to the Wall in the morning. I, however, will remain for several days.” Vectis read the edict and noticed that the old senator he had met in Rome, Alfenus Crescens, had endorsed it. Had Kallias stolen the edict? It identified the emissary as Helvius Marcellus. Or had some benefactor given him a new life? Vectis remembered the stories that circulated among North Africa’s legionaries when they released Kallias from the surgery at Lambaesis—after killing a centurion!