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[Giovanni looks a fair bit more tired than usual, and he's broadcasting from his own private quarters in Freya's hall.]

I... Asgard, I would like to ask you a question. A few days of my own thoughts have not reached an answer so I must ask it o you.

How do you advise proceeding here when you know that you will not survive returning home? When you know now that one of your closest friends has sold you and your family to those who seek your death and you know there is no way to prevent it in time?

Where should a man to to grieve the future that leaves his wife inconsolable for decades and only a single son and a daughter to carry the family? It is... not where I am currently.

I have however, very firmly decided that an act of betrayal agains me and mine shall not be forgiven so long as I exist.

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[Maria has heard of the hardships that have befallen Ezio and his family, and it is with such sadness and sympathy that she looks at his father now. Giovanni is a good man, no one should ever have to go through life with this knowledge weighing heavy on their shoulders.

God forbid such a hardship should ever befall her family; she cannot imagine having to live without Altaïr or know the pain of burying her sons, just the thought of it leaves her with a hollow feeling in her chest.

She is not a religious woman, not really, but she prays such a thing shall never come to pass.]

I think... that trying to find the answers to such a thing when you know you cannot change it will drive you to madness and bring you more pain.

I am sorry.

Edited 2014-08-31 19:56 (UTC)

And yet without answers I know that I will be unable to put it aside to do what must be done here.

[It's like trying to find north during a storm in a strange land.]

I know that seeking them is foolish but when family is involved I ham not always a wise man.

You're still alive. Right now.

[Perhaps it's cold to say. She knows the desperation of encroaching death, though- maybe too well.]

My own death is a thing I have long since accepted, it is the death of my sons for no reason other than their existence that leaves me distressed.

... fuck.

That -- fuck.

If whoever did this showed up here, I'd-

[Ellie has to stop, to take a deep breath. It's hard for her to think in these terms, but if someone came after Joel because of her, came after Riley...]

Whatever you did to them, I wouldn't blame you.

[Giovanni isn't a man of unnecessary violence, and he's taken his fair share of lives that deserved to be ended.]

I do not think they will, Uberto is not a man of war. Others... well, there are already those here who are creeping across the line of deserving to keep their lives.

They aren't here, are they?

I mean, the people who did this?

No. They are not, but we have been betrayed by another if what has been told to us is true.

[It's a long time before Fred answers]

Someone....

You know all that?

Si. Not that I am upset at being told, only that it happens to them.

[and that Fred can understand]

It's your family.

And innocent in all things at that. If my youngest was not taken to the gallows as well it would be a... less difficult thing to make some level of peace with.

There are a great many things I will do to ensure the lives of those I see as my family, as well as to protect the place they call home.

Wait?

[Fred's horrified. Despite the fact her own head was nearly separated from the neck once]

They did what?

They hanged my twelve year old son, a boy who has been ill his entire life, because I trusted someone who betrayed me for a chance at a fools gambit.

How would you know of all that already?

[It's not a situation he has encountered before, but he knows many others have.]

My son, the one who survives, is here. He has told me of what comes to pass.

And the fact you have thought to ask means you can't come to an answer that satisfies you, or the means of confronting the person responsible isn't here. Would I be wrong?

You are correct on both accounts. Not that the man is left to do as he pleases after his betrayal. You do not cross a family as old as ours without cost. Surviving the politics of Firenze and the rest of the country is not done without the bloodshed of our enemies.

There are many who operate in such a way. But seeing as that man is not here and you are encouraged to go and seek your vengeance, what will you do? Simply wait in the slim chance he comes by?

If the gods are fool enough to bring another traitor to the city, he will not have a pleasant time of it here.

They do have a record of bringing more 'unsavory' types, but there is also the difference of what a person would deem a traitor.

What a traitor is is rather plain. One who would betray the loyalties of those who trust them, who would throw those they hold the secrets of to be killed for their own gain. Someone who would hang the children of their friend instead of help them.

I wouldn't argue that. But any allies he might have likely would, and you would have to deal with them should you pursue him.

And? If they are willing to do the deed then they should understand that there are consequences to those actions.

And at that point, others are dragged in to avenge them. A cycle of revenge seems hardly ideal.

We see things quite differently I think. A matter of family and honor that has been betrayed deserves whatever comes to them.

I don't believe we see things all too differently. Truth be told, I have had something similar happen to me before.

Simple. You don't.

[Don't grieve, because you'll go mad. Don't plan betrayal because that will only weigh you down with unnecessary burden. Don't reflect on the past, don't bond to those you know.

Detach. Live. Survive.

These are the words from a man who has spent almost thirty years in isolation as a thief, never one to open himself much to anyone, and never noticing how his actions affected others.

Until now, that is. And he's all the more lost for it.]

That would be like yelling at a house fire to stop.

[Your advice is kind of a bit late, and kind of shit.]

So what you want is revenge, is that it? For your family and against anyone else who might be involved?

[There really wasn't any way for Fuuka to help him out. After all, she can't comprehend why someone who would do such a thing to their own friends...]

Or is there something more to it?

That vengeance is a thing since done, though not a thing I will be able to do.

[He'll be a bit dead to do it.]

It is... knowing that I will not see my sons grow to men, or that I will hold a grandchild or sit with my wife watching the revelries of carnival again. It is knowing that for all I did to protect them, for all the knowledge I have, I fail in keeping them safe and it destroys them.

[Well, at least he wasn't trying to seek out revenge, that's a start right Probably not.

But that didn't stop her from trying at least.]

I don't know how much it will help but I do have an idea? I know there's nothing I can do about what will happen later on but you could write a note to anyone who might be from the same world as yours?

It's a good way to start I think.

If my Maria comes here then I plan on being here to greet her. I think that those here from my world and time have already seen this event pass. Those from before it are... a few hundred years too early.

Unless they manage to save it really well from a hundred years? If they preserve it well enough, it would still work!

I'm not sure what time period you're from but there are special equipment where you can keep a paper from just rotting away?

[But she wasn't sure how well it might work but...

Oh well, at least she tried?]

If that is the case, then you should follow your instincts if you truly believe in them.

[Soushi wasn't the type to try and advice an individual to go against themselves or convince them to find another way. No. Not with all the wrong decisions he has made in his own life. He has no right to offer any type of advice.]

As for your question over the best way to proceed in this world, I have no answer to offer you as I believe it is one's own decision over the best course of action one should take. What is most important to you? What do you wish to accomplish with the limited time you have been gifted in this world? [He'll allow the other man to think it over before he does decide to ask.] If I may be so bold, may I assume someone from your own world informed you over your future as well as your family's?

I have the duty to aid in ensuring the victory of those who seek to save the worlds, and the responsibility to keep those of my family who are here from unreasonable harm.

[He knows damn well he can't keep Assassins from running in to what most everyone else would see as obscene danger, it's what they do.]

Beyond that I do not know if I see reason to seek anything else. I cannot change what happens, not without the possibility of ruining what good does come of that pain. My son becomes a man I could not be more proud of, I see him here fully grown in to himself.

[Two guesses as to who told him.]

[He has a pretty good guess who could have possibly told him after hearing the mention of his son.]

You're quite noble in your decision over the matter concerning this world and the other worlds. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing so. [After all.] There aren't many who believe the same way as you do. [He was one of those people as he could care less about the other worlds. His world was important because that was where his master will always reincarnate in until the very end.]

...it must be wonderful to have a son one can be proud of. I congratulate you in raising a fine man. If he is as noble and grand as you are, then he must be a wonderful individual. [A pause.] If I may be as bold as to inquire, may I know his name as well as your own?

There are likely more than you think who have everyone's interests at heart.

I am Giovanni, Ezio is my son though I only had the first seventeen years of his life. The rest has been others.

Betrayal is always the harshest blow. [ a tinge of something dark in his voice, the echo of a long-ago memory ] To refuse to forgive, I think, is not so unusual a conclusion.

As to the rest of your question sir, I fear I can give you no good answer. I would only suggest that you hold tightly to what you have here, for whatever time you have. But if you wish to grieve, there remain quiet places here, if you seek them, although perhaps it might be better to share such tears with family.

The family I have here has already grieved some time ago. I do not want to reopen old wounds any more than my presence already does.

I understand. And yet, family being family, I think they will not begrudge it of you. If you wish for peace, however, I find the library roof a quiet place few venture too. The park, also, although it is more frequented. But if tis merely to raise a drink in memory that you wish, I would recommend [ insert name of Mag's pub here ] - tell them Cano sent you, and they will pour the first glass in my name.

Edited 2014-09-11 09:50 (UTC)

Well ...

First of all that friend isn't really much of a friend anymore. Well, depends on the circumstances they sold you out under, I suppose.

[ He sighs. ]

What I know from people who know they'll return home to death, the most you can do is take advantage of the time you have here. As much as you can.

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