Letter of Grace: Litterae Gratiae, The Terror of Phrygia

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In a well-to-do house in Colossae, a young slave - keeper of his master's keys - opens the doors one dawn and disappears with the family's money. His flight takes him into the forests of Phrygia, where a band of fugitives takes him in as one of their own. Within two years, his ambushes along the imperial roads turn him into legend. Merchants call him the Terror of Phrygia. Centurions are ordered to take him alive.

When a dawn raid in a closed forest ends his reign, he is ...