THE FALL OF AN EMPIRE BOOK ONE --- Your eyes trailed up to the balcony, taking stock of the man who was perched there, hands resting on the railing as he peered down at the crowd that had just entered the room. Broad shoulders were only accentuated by plated armor, polished to a bronze sheen. You had seen this man before, during military processions and that sort of thing. The prison warden, and one of the caesar's previous champions. Samuel. The warden of the prison underneath the colosseum.

Why do people fear fire? The big body of Water is called the ocean... Then there is the Earth itself...a giant piece of rock... And then the Air we breathe...the large invisible Air...essential for all life... But a big body of Fire takes that all away... It burns the earth,covering it in flames... It takes the oxygen out the air making it unbreatheable... And the sheer heat makes the water itself evaporate... The most destructive...powerful...most feared element... Fire...