Hey, I didn’t know Ficly made that line for you when you type a few dashes. That’s convenient.

Sorry, I really don’t understand this at all.

1. He gets shot (arrow, no shaft=bullet)
2. He can’t get up because he’s not used to being inside a mortal body (he’s been dead for a long time in my prequel)
3. He gets arrested.
4. Three days later, he’s getting questioned by the police. In Ancient Rome, blue was the color of public servants, where the color for modern police uniforms came.
5. The police officer speaks English. Gladiator speaks Latin. The languages being related, the officer seems to understand lingua (language) and leaves, presumably to get a translator. I haven’t read the sequel yet.

If anyone else had the same problem, I’ll chalk it up to me being conceitedly ambiguous and revise.

Oh, oops, sorry—I keep forgetting it’s set in modern Rome (you called it “his city”). The officer would be speaking Italian. It looks like the sequel has it placed in North America, so should we stick with that or…my brain hurts. Sigh.

hey stovo last night i made a joke and my wife said it was dumb she got stupider from laughing at it. that made my brain hurt

Nicely done keeping the focus tight in on his experience of the modern world.

Ahhh I totally skipped over that one possessive “HIS city”. Hmm… will edit.