Chapter One : Blood, Ashes, Garlic and the Hand of Dear Grandfather Death

In a time when women were little more then objects for breeding, and tools for a mans advancement to higher office, comes the story of two woman, one born a noble women, the granddaughter of Emperors and the sister of one, and a girl born to an enslaved people, forced to fight both for her family and her life in the Arena... The difference in the world between life and death, freedom and eternal slaverey. Then there are those for whom their success in the areana will be more then a bet, and for whom their wager will mean, like the emporer's thumb up or down, more then money could.