Pontius' Death

[Pontius Arrilius]

Pontius sat up in a cold sweat, from nightmares of his caesar dying at the hands of the Vandal Prince, and the empire crushed beneath the enemy's feet.
"No! I shall never live to see the day when my king shall fall to the Vandal bastards!"
He grabbed his sword that lay next to the bed and, saying the lord's prayer, plunged it up to the hilt into his chest. He collapsed onto the bed, motionless, lifeless.

[Avitas Caesar]

Hearing the news of that dark night, the Emporer was grieved, and he remained alone in his throne room, the bright windows of which he covered, leaving it dark and gloomy, and there he stayed for 2 weeks in deep thought about the loss of Sicily and his most loyal servant.