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Tacitus recieves a letter from Plinius the Younger. He starts to read it.
Dear Tacitus, you asked me to descirbe my uncle's life.
It started like this: In 23 my uncle saw the sunlight for the first time.
As a little boy he had always dreamt of a career in the shipping environment.
he got the chance to follow his dreams and went to Rome for a good
education. With this education he had the chance to become fleet commander in Mycene.
On the 24th of August something miracles happened. A grey glow appaered at the horizon.
The scientist in him awoke. He must investigate this! Suddenly
a rider appaered, he had a note from Rectina. She
sent a simple: HELP! So the intention changed from scientific to heroic.
He gave me the order to prepare a ship. He left with a flying speed.
He sailed in the direction of Rectina and saw millions of ships going the other way.
Suddenly a huge rock fell from the sky.
He demanded to change course and went straight to Pomponianus.
He was panicing because of the strange conditions around him.
Plinius stayed calm and started to comfort him.
Meanwhile the Vesuvius started to shine harder and harder. The panic also continued to grow.
They were now in a dilemma. Stay inside and have te chance to get crushed or go outside en have the cance to get hit by pumice.
They chose the last one, this one was feared by lots. It would appear
that this was the doom of my uncle. They went to te beach
to see if they could sail away.They got surrounded by an ash cloud.Plinius started to cough and fell on the ground.
They tried, unsuccesfully, to pull him up again.This was the end of
the life of my uncle. The 26th of August a memorable date.
Greets, Your friend Plinius
Tacitus put the letter away, stood up and walked away.