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I was afraid I'd find you
still asleep.
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Caesarion is.
He was awake most of the night.
:22:13
Did the storm frighten him?
:22:15
He said not, but it did.
I could tell.
:22:19
Have you time to come in?
:22:21
Decimus awaits. He came by expressly
to accompany me to the Senate.
:22:26
Decimus? Has he done this before?
:22:28
A shrewd politician.
:22:30
He hopes to benefit
by arriving with me, this day of days.
:22:34
IKeep Antony close by.
:22:38
You too?
:22:40
The ladies of Rome seem to have caught
each other's fears this morning.
:22:43
Like a head cold.
:22:45
Calpurnia pleaded with me
not to go to the Senate at all.
:22:48
Why? Why would she
not want you to go?
:22:52
Oh, the bad night. Nothing else.
:22:54
She awoke screaming in her sleep.
The thunder, the lightning.
:22:57
She dreamed that she saw me murdered.
That she saw me...
:23:02
...or a statue of me covered in blood.
:23:04
The servants told her of seeing
men of fire in the heavens...
:23:08
...odd happenings and so forth.
:23:10
Strange birds were seen in the Forum.
:23:13
One flew into the Senate carrying a
sprig of laurel which it dropped...
:23:18
...at the base of Pompey's statue.
:23:20
Pompey?
:23:23
- Caesar, I'm afraid.
- You must not tell me to stay away.
:23:28
Shall I too be afraid?
:23:30
Can it be said of Caesar, he gave up
the world because of a thunderstorm?
:23:34
That such divinity that was in him ran
before mortal superstition?
:23:39
I feel you need me now...
:23:41
...and I cannot help you.
:23:43
Then help me to live as I have lived,
always differently from the rest.
:23:48
The others, for whom life is merely
an endless fear of dying.
:23:54
Your gods...
:23:56
...and mine go with you, Caesar.