Nasir didn't understand some of those words, the concepts not invented when he was from, and the rest seemed too bizarre to believe had he not seen monsters here, people who appeared to be cursed by the gods.

He could tell that Carlos was excited by the strangeness of it though, for reasons Nasir couldn't understand. And so he looked at him curiously but still with a hard expression.

"Yet choice was yours to remain and risk life yet now, when you learn of chance it was taken, grieve." He recalled Spartacus's last words and his own voice quietened a fraction. "Better to fall from this world a free man than to die here."

Nasir would be of more comfort were he not so insulted by Carlos's comparison.