[b]Aemiliana[/b]
The girl looked at the guard. "I'll stay out of sight as long as I possibly can. The cold weather's a good excuse, I can draw my cloak around me and cover my hair and face with a fold of it." She gathered it around herself, wincing as she had to lift her arms over her head. She meant to go to the window and clamber out of it, but she paused before she got there. Aemiliana turned and kissed the guard on the cheek. "Thank you, Gaius Ignis, for giving me a reason and a way to live. May Mother Rome guard you and guide you for eternity." Then she clambered out the window, dropping lightly to the ground and blending seamlessly with the crowd. She thought to check the academy again; chances were she'd find Pentalius in the library. She checked the position of the sun, smiling as she realized it was probably about lunchtime and so she would be able to catch him. Keeping her cloak drawn around her she wandered down the street and into the library. She took the exact seat she'd had before, against a wall in the corner, and picked up a book. Ironically, it was the very same book she needed to read for class. She opened it to the Hippocratic Oath, which she read every time she opened a medical book, and started reading, only to find her breath hitching as she read the line "I will first and foremost do no harm." She felt tears coming. [i]I broke my oath... I hurt my father; I would have killed him if I'd had a longer knife. Primum non nocere. Doing no harm is first. I was so absorbed in my misery that I forgot my oath.[/i] Then she mentally slapped herself. [i]Get it together, get it together. Watch for Pentalius over the top of the book. No one can tell who you are as long as you stay wrapped in this cloak.[/i]