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[Galadriel;]

Did you figure it out?

[with the theory being if she didn't, she'll admit to not knowing what he's talking about.]

[Felix;]

I haven't heard from you in a while. Hm... [there's that laugh of his again.] I didn't scare you off, did I?

[Pubic;]

[and then there's some bored dictation for the rest of the castle.]

Give it another month or so, and I will have been here for four years. While I'll agree that spontaneously losing parts of yourself and being elaborately confined are obnoxious, I'm beginning to think the worst part is how people don't stick around long enough to get anything done. Four years, and so little to show for it.

But now, some former residents are arriving with their previous memories still intact. It's a bit like adding insult to injury, watching the powers-that-be pick and choose who remembers and who has to have things explained to them all over again.

~~If anyone's thinking~~ [he stops himself mid-sentence and crosses that part out pretty thoroughly. not important.]

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And where are you from, Zelman?

[ Because recent experiences showed her that there are fewer Americans than she first thought. ]

[meanwhile, he's trying really hard to remember why her name sounds kind of familiar.]

Poland, originally.

[ He did live through that infamous era of the Borgias. ]

Then you are the few who are not from across the ocean. Are you a traveler, Zelman?

[six-hundred years ago is a little hard to remember...]

I am, among other things.

So you are a man of many trades. What are they?

Oh? I think I'll keep them a mystery, for now.

After all, we've only just met.

[ She chuckles. Like a game! ]

A puzzle I shall solve in time, then.

I already look forward to your enthusiasm.

Ah-- [a pause.] I've just remembered.

Do you think wit and enthusiasm would be enough to solve this one?

Yes?

I think that it'll give you a good start, at the very least.

This may be a strange coincidence, as is not uncommon in this place... But are you the same Lucrezia Borgia as the daughter of Pope Alexander VI?

That is reassuring.

Yes. He was once Rodrigo Borgia, no longer.

Great. You're coming from quite the background then, aren't you?

What do you know of my family, Zelman?

Oh, I know about as much as anyone else would. I know of titles and politics and the occasional rumor.

You mustn't trust the rumors. The Italians speak of us such because we are foreign to them.

There's no need to worry, Missy. I've been to a great many places, all of which have their fair share of stories regarding just about everything. Rumors are just rumors, nothing more.