Chapter 13Ares was ready.
He dressed in rags on the street so he wouldn’t be recognized, and had just come from scouting out Ottus’ lair. He held the diagrams of his weapons in his right hand and ran into the Ancient House to lay out a plan for his warriors.
Now, standing before them, he began shouting out his plan of action in bringing the enemy down, but he got no response. Instead of jumping to obey his orders, they looked at him as if he were crazy.
“What the hell is wrong with you men?” Ares shouted when they stood around looking at him, and at each other.
Finally, someone shouted out, “Who are you?”
In that moment it dawned on Ares that they didn’t know him. Looking down at his clothes, he realized that all they saw was a man in ragged clothes, disheveled hair hanging down in hi
