Julius was ordered to keel away from the main areas of his lords mansion as for the moment a wealthy lord, a friend of the master, was visiting the mansion along with his entourage of slaves and servants. For the moment he was occupying himself with cleaning the stables, which is where the slaves slept, and thinking of what it would be like to not be a slave, to live in a world where men are free, a world where his whoring mother did not sell him into slavery, things Julius often thought about.