Cassius

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Cassius was born in the shadow of legitimacy, acknowledged by blood, denied by law. In the household of Benci in Ar, he grew beside his half-brother Aulus, not as an equal, but as something close enough to blur the line: a companion, a slave taught to read music and mood more carefully than books. He learned early that love could exist within hierarchy, but that affection did not dissolve chains.

When plague took their parents and debt hollowed out the estate, the fragile balance shattered. Their uncle gambled away what remained, and when treason followed, the name Benci became something to hide. Aulus was taken as a debt slave. Cassius was sold.  

He survived by folding himself smaller, by mastering obedience, by trading emotion for control. By the time he was found by the mother of a physician and purchased as a gift for her son, Cassius had already rebuilt himself around endurance.

In a world that has stripped him of name, status, and voice, loyalty remains his last inheritance. Cassius kneels not because he is empty, but because it is the only position from which he knows how to survive. Beneath the discipline, beneath the rehearsed humility, lives a quiet, stubborn grief and the dangerous hope that something inside of him might yet remain unbroken.
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