The long road to Calleva 2: Different Kinds of Chains

Title: Different kinds of chains
Length: 6732 words
Rating : still gen.
Summary: Esca wakes up after his injuries, as a slave. He is bought by a slave trader, his ear is clipped and he is taken South for sale.
Warnings: child death, threatened child abuse, general grimness.

This started out as a short stand-alone fic about Esca's name, so again, sorry for the repetition for those that read that. Then it grew and grew. I promise I have stopped fiddling with it now!  

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Esca's Name

They came to make a list of the prisoners, not long after Cunoval's youngest son woke up. Maybe it was a morning, maybe a day. A big man with a sour face and black hair curling from his Roman nose, a brisk little man with a stylus and a wax tablet, and a couple of soldiers behind them. They looked at the Brigantes as a man might look at cows going to market, if they were not very good cows.
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