So, I have a new obsession with Spartacus. In this, Varro survives the events of Blood and Sand, and is alive and well when Spartacus takes Sinuessa en Valle.
"You stand Roman."
Varro turns to regard the man who spoke, chained and crouched as he was against the walls of Sinuessa en Valle with other former masters. At the man's words, other Romans turned, chains rattling, to stare at him beseechingly.
"Please, free us!"
"You must help us!"
"Water, please!"
Varro stared down at the lot, bloody, terrified and human, and crouched in front of the man that had spoken, pulling the bracer off his right forearm to bare Batiatus's mark.
"I was Roman once," Varro said. "But now I stand escaped slave, the same as all the others here." He stood, replacing the bracer, and tossed his wineskin to the woman that had asked for it. "But we all stand as free men now."
He walked away.