Various Gallic chieftains have been summoned to Massilia for a conference. The Aquitani and the Aedui have been summoned, but it would be some days yet before they arrived. In the meantime Severus has arranged for several of the captured Gauls to be tortured for information regarding their revolt and the climate of Gaul in general.
Severus has had his men construct several devices that would ensure the procedure would be painful...perhaps painful enough for a confession. The Centurion Publius Milo of the IX presided over the tortures.