 Beric makes his escape from Pio's household, hiding in a disused temple of Sylvan Pan, and making his way north on the Via Flaminia, hoping to walk back to Britain.He is caught in the Roman countryside, condemned as a bandit, and sentenced to live out his life as a galley slave.He works in the Rhenus Fleet, stationed in Colonia Agrippina, living many years on the galley "Alcestis".