Drag Them Out

"Love, hope, fear, faith — these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character."

-        Robert Browning

There was a little rain later that night. 

The roads are already screwed up before hand due to the sheer amount of people, hooves and wheels going on top of it everyday for the past year, turning it from a solid pathway built on the foundation of the ancient pagan Roman roads to become this kind of ill qualitied mud path that is literally unusable during this rain. The situation forced Antonius to halt the progress of his army right outside the city of Kastoria, in the village that he has just paraded past an hour earlier.