The Price of Freedom

After the vicious struggle between former friends and the bloody spectacle it resulted in, the rest of the day was spent with human blood being shed. Only a handful survived out of the dozens of slayers who were first among Medhyasa's slaves to become gladiators. Among them were Alex, Fabian, and Julia. When the survivors finally returned to the Ludus where they would be living for what was likely to be the remainder of their days, most of them were in low spirits seeing that many of those they briefly referred to as brothers and sisters had perished in their first event. Only Alex remained indifferent to the entire thing; he expected such results. Essentially the survivors were lucky that they had faced easier opponents than the others and fully realized this to be the case.