Do you hear them screaming?

They heard mine too, once.

And they did nothing.

They took my husband's kingdom the moment

he died. Said it was theirs now.

Said the treaty meant nothing.

Said I meant nothing.

They were wrong about that last part.

I am Boudica. Queen of the Iceni.

And what you see burning behind me

is not a city.

It's an answer.

Three cities. Londinium. Camulodunum. Verulamium.

Seventy thousand Romans, dead.

The Ninth Legion — gone.

They called it a massacre.

I called it a beginning.

I lost in the end.

Rome always wins in the end —

that's what Rome tells itself, anyway.

But walk through London today.

Look for the empire that broke my daughters.

Look for the men who laughed

when I was flogged in the street.

Go ahead. Look.

I'll wait.

— Boudica, 60 AD

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Part of the "Defeated Legends" series.