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[heloise]

I had not dared to wish for a sister or a daughter. Yet look, I had both, and the sweetest husband any woman could hope for.

Only the Castle does me a disservice by removing my better half!

[ Lucrezia dictates from the orchard, leaning against an old tree. She closes her journal before going back to, slowly and rather messily, sewing colored glass onto a piece of lace while muttering a song to herself: ]

♪ La bella lavanderina che lava i fazzoletti per i poveretti della città! ♪

[ ooc; so open, journal or action! also, translation and music!

Comments

[heloise]

Why would you make such a distinction for those years?

[secondchances]

It's the not-a-child but not-an-adult phase. Less responsibility and whatnot.

[heloise]

That is silly. I am no longer a child and Cesare was already a Bishop then.

[secondchances]

[And Steph was already running around on rooftops and getting personal with Gotham. BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT--]

Well, where I'm from, you'd be in school until you're eighteen. Mandatory. Then, off to college until you're about twenty-two, if you want. Then I guess you're considered an adult. It's so you're given ample time to get prepared for that big ol' scary world, I guess.

[heloise]

Twenty-two? There would be little one can accomplish in life if it takes so long to become an adult.

[secondchances]

People live a lot longer in my time, remember. Medicine and all that stuff.

[heloise]

Until one hundred?

[secondchances]

Yup. I think somewhere around eighty is the life expectancy.

[heloise]

I wish I could know how many years I have.

[secondchances]

[Nooooooo don't go down this road.]

I think it's better to not know. Makes you live each day to the fullest, y'know?

[heloise]

But doesn't it always feel like one has forever?

[secondchances]

Most days, thankfully. Life would be pretty terrible if we were worrying about how much time we had left constantly.

[heloise]

I only pity the fact that our lives could never overlap.

[secondchances]

What are they doing right now?

[heloise]

A miracle.

[secondchances]

With plenty of overlapping, with a little less of the culture shock of me going to Rome or you going to Gotham.

[heloise]

I would fare quite well in Gotham, mind you.

[secondchances]

Pretty confident about that, Lucrezia.

[heloise]

Yes, when I would have you for a guide.

[secondchances]

I do give pretty awesome tours, if I do say so myself. You'd be in good hands.

[heloise]

And you would be under my protection in Rome.