Romulus

-I can't see anything. -I tell you someone's there.

Look now!

Can't you see it?

Who's there?

Speak!

Who are you?

Speak!

Hostus...

is that you?

I marked all the trees,

like you told me to...

Did you call me?

Come, I want to show you something.

A giant.

Rumia keeps them to serve her,

tied up beneath the ground.

Let's go back to the camp, please.

If we leave now we'll get there before it's dark.

Don't touch it. We don't know if it's sacred...

What's wrong?

That's Picus' cord.

Hostus...

Let me explain.

You're a cowardly bastard, you let him die!

Leave me alone!

Leave me alone!

I didn't kill Picus...

Welcome back, little sheep!

Wiros, what's wrong?

Where's Hostus? What happened to you?

-What happened to you? Speak! -Call Cnaeus.

You can't tell us what happened?

-Cnaeus! -Where's Hostus?

-Cnaeus! -Where's Hostus?

Cnaeus!

What's going on here?

Cnaeus!

Cnaeus!

Please, forgive me.

I was with Hostus and then...

I watched and I did nothing...

What's he talking about?

Something happened in the forest.

We had moved away and then...

We both saw her...

Who did you see?

Do I really have to say her name?

She was as tall as three people,

and had claws like iron...

She took Hostus, she split him in two

and ate his heart.

Why did she only take him?

I don't know.

I... I hid...

What can you do when faced by Rumia?

You say Hostus is dead,

but in the meantime you're here and talking,

you dirty coward...

Enough, Pacuvius, silence!

Wiros...

Did you really see the Lady of the Wolves?

Yes.

She ate his heart.

From today we will light three more fires.

We have to keep her at bay.

Now get back to work.

And will we leave Hostus there?

-Will we not bring his body back? -Do you want to go, Pacuvius?

Get back to work!

Father Jupiter,

Mars, Lord of Battles,

and you, mother Vesta, the fruitful one:

look at this daughter of yours...

who has come back from the swamps of the dead

to fill us with dismay.

Tell us

if it is right

to welcome her into our homes, or if...

she should be punished again

and return to the darkness.

Do not be afraid.

Well? What should we do?

She'll tell you what to do.

Don't you object,

there's a God who speaks to her heart.

We found her like this.

It would take five men to move those stones.

Are you not eating, Pacuvius?

Has fear taken away your hunger?

It isn't fear.

And what is it, then?

I don't like you looking at me in that way.

-We are here to become... -Today we thought about Hostus.

All day.

If you want to go and find him I told you before

that you are free.

We can't go alone, you know that.

Pacuvius and I are ready, but you...

You're the king...

You can decide to send someone else with us.

Lucius, would you go?

I asked you a question.

There are others who are much braver than me.

There's Taurus...

You hear that, Taurus?

He says you're the bravest.

You're the bravest, Cnaeus.

Why don't you go?

Because Hostus means nothing to me.

And you're a coward.

Like all the others.

Call the assembly.

I will guide them.

Then you'll see if I'm a coward.

Taurus wants to lead an expedition,

and Appius and Pacuvius will be going with him.

If anyone else wants to follow him, they have my permission.

Comrades...

Comrades...

If what happened to Hostus today

were to happen to you,

wouldn't you want someone to come looking for you to bury you?

Or would you prefer us to leave your body

to feed the birds?

Think about it...

If you promise...

-I'll come with you. -We swear to you, Vibius.

On all the Gods.

Nobody else is coming with us?

That's enough, Taurus.

You'll leave tomorrow at dawn.

Wiros!

Come closer.

You will lead them

to the place where Hostus died.

-Wait, Cnaeus... -Be quiet!

Do as I commanded.

And take them to the place you know.

Was it him again?

Your brother?

Why aren't you sleeping?

In Velia when a slave disobeys,

they tie his arms to two horses,

they set them off and rip him in two.

This is what they'll do to me.

Because I lied.

You killed Hostus.

He attacked me and I had to defend myself.

It's the truth, you have to believe me.

Now... when they see his body

they'll realise what happened.

I have no hope.

Come with us tomorrow.

-Why do you ask me that? -Because you have courage.

With you, I would be less afraid.

Please.

I have no courage.

I'm just like you.

I was with my brother when they killed him.

I wasn't able to save him.

I'd like to go back to that day and die with him,

but this is not granted by the Gods.

Ilia?

Ilia?

Go back to sleep, Ilia.

In sleep the Gods will show you the way to go.

I've slept enough.

I was afraid I'd lost you,

but instead here you are. A blessing in my home.

I won't let anyone take you away again.

I'm not a blessing.

I'm revenge.

Mars is the God who gave me my life back.

I belong to him now.

You're my daughter.

You belong to Alba.

You belong to me.

Let's go home now.

You're still weak.

You will take me to the priest of Mars.

Only to him will I say what I saw and what the God told me.

You didn't see anything.

No, instead I saw.

Whether or not they were vain visions,

only the priest of Mars can say.