Ides Martius DCCX
(March 15, 710 AUC (by the Roman Calendar), 43 BC (by ours))
Years seemed to have passed between now and the morning's events. But he is gone. His blood poured onto the floor, coating my hands and intoxicating my mind, throwing me into a fervor like no other. Civilization left my mind and in flew on the wings of Bacchus an inebriation that left my head spinning. But the source was not wine, but blood, the blood of a tyrant and friend.
The temporary insanity was numbing though, and I needed it desperately. For I do not pretend that killing Caesar was a joyful task. When he looked at me with his eyes wide with betrayal and shock and said "Et tu Brute?" I felt my heart slow and my eyes water. If I had not already stabbed him my resolve would have shattered. But as the events stood, madness overcame me followed by bloodlust. Peace, freedom, and liberty… that was my mind's cry. But the irony is overwhelming, in securing peace we had to destroy it by succumbing to the animal's solution. For all our words and thoughts, we could not come up with a better answer than to slaughter a tyrant. Why would the gods want this? Why would the Fates be so cruel to Caesar and to all of us conspirators so as to force us into madness and murder?
But the people need to be addressed and informed, for an informed populace is a free one that can be forced to serve under no man. They need to have the feelings of the conspirators clarified; they need to be assured the truth. The truth that the murder of the great Julius Caesar was a last resort and only resolution to the problem that is tyranny. Surely they can see that we loved Caesar, but it was only for the survival of Rome that we murdered him.
Antony comes and I shall have him speak to the populace too, as I am sure he has awakened as I have and has realized the danger that is- was Julius Caesar.
Authors Note: Well, I'm updating when I get a review for a chapter. So just one review and POOF! Update! The story is already finished too (I just finished it recently, it is for my summer homework assignment!)