Desperate Fans

"No, the first Claudius was a Roman," he says with a faint smile. Describing everything anew, to someone who has a culture and heritage removed from his own, lets him take another view on it. "You have leaders among your kind -- do you have nations or tribes? The Roman Empire was a very old nation of twolegs that fell after trying to rule all the other twolegs it came into contact with. I always thought my parents named me that way as a warning. My brother's a leader, and they wanted me to know that if I tried to take his place, I'd fail. Tawnypelt sounds far more admirable. Has she redeemed her name?"