Scene 1.4.3
Parley at the walls
The signals for parley went out to the
walls. It was a respected gesture that all warring sides will cease hostilities
during such a call. Marcius chose to meet the parley at their main gates
outside the walls.
“Tullus Aufidius, is he within your
walls?” Marcius wanted to meet his adversary to convey that the war was over
and he had won but he was told otherwise.
“No, nor a man, but fears you less than
he. That’s lesser than a little.” The Senator on the wall spoke out. He was not
alone but with his peers. He looked to the firing of the guns on the far side
wall. “It seems that our guns are sounding for our youths once more. We will
break our walls rather than they shall pound us up: our gates which yet seem
shut, we have but pinned with rushes. They will open themselves.”
The alarm was received that Volsces had
attack on the other side.
“Hark off, far off! There’s Aufidius. He
list what works on your army.”
Martius looked to the distance fighting.
It had resumed again the battle. The parley was never respected. At then the
gates of Corioli opened up for the Volsces army to break out. Marcius drew on
his saber and called the army to battle. He rallied the troopers with his
voice.
“They fear us not, but issue forth their
city.” Marcius called on the troopers to advance. “Raise your shields before
your hearts, and fight with hearts more proof than shields.”
“Advance, Titus.” Marcius called on the
other commander who had stayed behind the lines when he initiated the parley.
“They do disdain us more beyond our thoughts which make me sweat with wrath.”
Marcius rushed forth with his trooper.
One of the troopers stopped and looked to the wall. Marcius stepped up to him.
He whispered to the trooper.
“He that retires, I’ll take him for a
Volsces. And he shall feel mine edge.” The trooper heard his commander and
howled out his confidence before he ran towards the wall. It was his last run
for the Volsces had him gunned on the run. The Volsces was overwhelmed by the
numbers.
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