Saea, adopted daughter of the Valerius family, took the blame for their real daughter Aurelia and was sentenced to work as a slave for three years. When she was about to be freed, Lucius came to call her "mother"—at night, when he was ignorant and nothing like the fearsome general in the day. Her family then wanted to make her marry Cassian, the notorious maniac, but Lucius realized everything and was ready to help her fight back.
