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 * Pompeii by Robert Harris**

Chapter 1. Conticinum This chapter starts off with an enginer and his men looking for water in the mountains. Attilius is the new aquarius or the Aqua Agusta. His men did not like him very much because he was a new young guy that had the athority to give them orders. He was younger and shorter than all of them. The man that disliked him most of all was a man named Corax.
 * Mars**

Chapter 2. Hora Undecima Millionaire Numerius Popidius Ampliatus, a former slave, put an innocent slave to death because he thought the slave had killed his expensive fish. The slave's mother asked Ampliatus's daughter Coreilia for help and then Corelia went to ask Attilius if he could help and try and save the slave. He arrived too late and the slave was dead.

Chapter 3. Hora Duodecima The aqua agusta reaked of sulfur and Attilius knew something was wrong. Also attilius wanted to know where Exomnius, the old aquarius, was because he thought he knew what was going on and that was the reason as to why he left. Attilius knew that something was seriously wrong with the agusta. It had failed and everyone was without water. Towns all around Pompeii had also failed too. Attilius decided to shut off the the resivior. Attilius met a man who was in Pompeii earlier that morning and he told him that they had water there. That made Attilius realize that the problem lied in Pompeii.

Chapter 4. Vespera Attilius went to the admiral's official residence. His name was Pliny. He was a very smart mad who accomplished many things. He was an older man who was very overweight. Pliny was very upset that Attilius shut off the reservior without permission. He threatened to arrest him. Attilius then asked Pliny for a ship. He explained that the problem has to be somehere in the five mile stretch that ran near Mt Vesuvius in Pompeii. He needed a ship to get to Pompeii so he could start repairs the next day. Pliny noticed that his wine glass was vibrating on the table. He did not understand why.

Chapter 5. Nocte Intempesta Later that same night, Attilius layed in his bed and waited for dawn. He couldn't sleep so he got up and searched throught Exomnius's things to try and find a clue as to why he left and waht was happening. It didn't even seem like Exomnius lived there with what he found. Then Attilius went outside into the night and went to Corelia's house looking for her but fround the mother of the dead slave instead who told him Coreila wasn't there. The old slave had been beaten badly and was left there to die. Attilius helped her and had a doctor help her.

Chapter 6. Diluculum Attilius and some men set out to Pompeii to find what was causing the problem with the aqueduct and to repair it. The admiral, Pliny, was at his house and wrote a letter to the emperor to alert him of the problem with the aqueduct. He gave the letter to Attilius before he left. On the ship to Pompeii, Attilius found out that Ampliatus and his family also lived in Pompeii. Later that day, they arrived in Pompeii.
 * Mercury**

Chapter 7. Hora Quarta They noticed that the old man was right and the water ran in Pompeii. The water was overflowing even. Attilius gave him men orders and set them off. Then he went inside the aqueduct there in Pompeii and went into the water to clean outhe twigs, leaves, and rocks, and the water slave, Tiro can in. He was blind but could hear better than any man. He took Attilius to Popidius's house because he was in charge of the water supply there in Pompeii.

Chapter 8. Hora Quinta Attilius arrived at the house of Popidius. He almost wasn't let in until he showed the admiral's letter. Then the steward took Attilius to Popidius and gave him the letter. Attilius was shocked to see that Ampliatus was there. Ampliatus thought it was a good idea to help Attilius and got the others to agree. Ampliatus gave Attilius all the tools and the men he needed for repair.

Chapter 9. Hora Sexta Ampliatus then took Attilius to the huge, luxurious bath house he was building. He offered Attilius a share in ownership, but Attilius declined becuase he felt he was neant to be an engineer and he didn't want to be indebted to Ampliatus. Attilius loaded up all the tools and things that Ampliatus said he would supply.

Chapter 10. Hora Septa Ampliatus threw a banquet where people were squished together and were served discusting food. Attilius had a mand named Africanus take him to Exomnius's place in Pompeii. He entered his room and saw that it had been trashed just recently. That was why Ampliatus showed him around the baths. Ampliatus wanted to occupy time so the room could be searched for some money that Exomnius had left behind. Attilius went back to where he was before and met up with his men and tools. The men that Ampliatus had promised were there. They were a rough bunch and drank a lot. They then set out towards Vesuvius.

Chapter 11. Hora Duodecima Aquarius and his men went to the aqueduct in Pompeii. Corelia heard her father talking to Corax and overheard that they were planning on killing Attilius. Corax gave Ampliatus some papyri. Corelia stole the papyri and ran away to Attilius to make sure he was ok and give him the papyri to find out what it meant.

Chapter 12. Vespera Everyone thought Corax was missing, but he was really following Attilius waiting for the perfect moment to kill him. Attilius and his men climbed down the manhole to start repairs. They finally found where the blockage was. They then realized that if they were to stay down there, they would have all drowned. Everyone except Attilius went back up. Attilius tied a rope around his waist and gave the end to Bebrex, a former gladiator, whom he trusted to pull him to safety if anything happened. Attilius continued working until whatever was holding the water back gave out and the current took him with it. The rope just slipped out of Bebrix's hands. A couple of Attilius's men went back down to find and hilp him when the water level lowered.

Chapter 13. Nocte Concubia Attilius and his men climbed back up and Corelia was there. She showed Attilius the papyri that she took from her father and asked him what it all meant. Some were Exomnius's impressions of Vesuvius. He realized that Exomnius knew something bad was about to happen with Vesuvius. Another papyri showed how much Ampliatus paid for water, and how much he paid Exomnius to keep his mouth shut.

Chapter 14. Hora Prima Everyone saw that something bad was going to happen to Vesuvius so Attilius said that they could evacuate the area and get to safety. Attilius told Corelia about his family. He told her about how his wife died giving birth to his son. He then sent her home. Attilius stayed behind.
 * Jupiter**

Chapter 15. Hora Quarta Corelia arrived home and showed everyone the paqri. Her father twisted it around and everyone was back on his side again. Attilius stayed behind because he wanted to go up to Vesuvius and see it. He knew that the answer to what was happening to the water lied up there. When he got up there he found Exomnis dead. He looked poisoned. Everything that tried to eat him was dead and poisoned too.

Chapter 16. Hora Sexta There was a double boom and everyone was freaked out. The sky grew as dark as night and everyone fled for their lives. Stone-like ash fell from the sky. Corelia was locked in her room by her father and couldn't get out. Attilius talked to Pedius Cascus's wife and she gave him a letter to give to Pliny. She also gave Attilius a fresh horse. Attilius needed a ship to get to Pompeii to save Corelia.

Chapter 17. Hora Nona Pliny ordered the entire fleet out to see, which was 20 ships. Pliny recorded what was happening to Vesuvius. All th emen were upset because they all knew that it was very foolish to fight nature. Stone-like ash continued to fall from the sky.

Chapter 18. Vespera The sea carried them to Stabiae where they were forced to take shelter. Popidius came to them and asked if they would take him with them like a coward. He left Coreia without helping her. Pliny wasn't doing to well and couldn't carry on much longer in the storm.

Chapter 19. Inclinatio Attilius left Pliny and set off to Pompeii by himself in search of Corelia. Pliny objected but Attilius didn't care. He was almost burried alive on his journey by the stone-like ash but he fought through it and finally made it to Pompeii.
 * Venus**

Chapter 20. Diluculum Attilius found Corelia in Ampliatus's bath house with her family. Ampliatus tried to not let them escape but Corelia threw a burning torch at him and then her and Attilius ran away. Ampliatus and some of his men ran after them but were scared away by the lava. Then, sadly Attilius and Corelia died.

Chapter 21. Hora Altera Another blast hit and killed thousands of people. Pliny's men were helping him walk to safety when he finally told him to just save themselves. They obeyed and left him there to die. They promised Pliny that they would have all of his recorded observations publishhed. The city of Pompeii was completely burried.


 * The End.**