Lurios listened to these words, his emotions stirred.
"Come, let's talk in the room." Vercingetorix enthusiastically grasped Lurios's arm and led him into the living room, then dismissed the others.
When only the two of them remained in the hall, Lurios coughed lightly and said, "That day, your uncle led the troops to raid the camp, I was captured by them. Your uncle urged me to surrender. After I refused, he sold me and other captured tribesmen to Roman slave traders.
We were escorted to Inner Gaul (which is the Northern Italy Province) and sold at a slave market in a town called Ravenna. A few days later, I was bought by a merchant who claimed to be from the Roman Illyria Province...
The merchant took us, dozens of comrades including me, eastward by carriage, getting further and further from our homeland. I thought about escaping, but there were more than a dozen fully armed guards watching over the entire group. I was constantly hungry with no opportunity to flee...
