#but I like to make stupid jokes and the book I read about sino-roman trade was like 'yeah the romans were crazy for silk

[ibijau]

pov: you are a slave whose asshole, self-centered Roman owner just forced to travel across the known world for well over a year through enemy empires, all for a chance of acquiring silk, the most precious fabric known to man, so exquisite that only the richest of people can afford what little of it is ever sold. Then the cute guy who your owner just threw you at to improve his chance of getting that most precious of materials starts giving you silk clothes like they’re cheaper than dirt because, well, to him they kind of are.