xxxv λ musing

[assassino]

[All things considered, Ezio has had a busy day, but now he's out and about. He's hit up a dozen or so stores in town, mostly for painting frames and books, and perhaps you've see him running errands.


Later, however, he will be sitting down at his desk to scrawl out:]

I seldom write in this journal. I think that is funny; for every boy who knows how to write, three sit without education, and here I squander my gifts and ignore books. My sister does more writing than I do, and her talent is a rarity amongst women!

It has been more than a year since I have arrived –– closer, still, to thirteen months -- and each day I learn new things about the future, history, science, and even the human body. I do not think many days have passed in the past four hundred that saw me sitting idle and failing to learn!

Yet still, when I spoke to a young woman the other week, she was hard-pressed to believe that I would return to my time, forsaking the knowledge and science and hygiene of the future. I prefer the conventions of my time, and my culture, and I have work to do. So, I wonder, then...

How many of you would go home with another, to their time instead of yours?

I'm going to miss plumbing. I think that is what you call it –– "plumbing." Even after all this time, sometimes it is fun to turn on the "tap" simply to marvel at its convenience. It is a wonder there is so much water about without the streets being flooded like the canals of Venezia.

And I have such good memories of the miracles of showers, with thanks to some of the beautiful women in this castle.

E. Auditore.

Comments

[assassino]

How am I supposed to remember all the arbitrary rules of your time?

[secondchances]

We'll buy you a pen and some paper.

[assassino]

Would it not be easier to create a printed copy? It would be terrible to rewrite such a long list when I forget again.

[secondchances]

A printed copy you can frame.

[assassino]

I would hang it over my bed, so that I will always be reminded of your strange ways.

[secondchances]

Your dedication is heartwarming.

[assassino]

Plenty of me is heartwarming.

[secondchances]

You're so conceited.

[assassino]

[A gasp.]

Me? Conceited? I am offended, madonna!

[secondchances]

Don't be offended at the truth, that's not healthy.

Tell me your best quality. Only one.

[assassino]

My confidence.

[secondchances]

And what about worst? You can't say you don't have any!

[assassino]

[He laughs.]

My weakness to women.

[secondchances]

You're working on it, at least. [NO THANKS TO YOU, LUCREZIA.]

[assassino]

Yes, because I'm a good man.

[secondchances]

It's okay to be a little conceited about being a good man.

[assassino]

Good! Because I do not intend to stop that.

[secondchances]

Good. You'd better always be a good man [especially when it comes to dealing with Tim, oh god] or else.

[assassino]

Or else what?

[secondchances]

What's the worst I could do to you?

[assassino]

Stop being my friend, likely.

[secondchances]

It'd take something really terrible for that to happen. [Like, oh, murder...]

I'll just have to go with threats of bodily harm, huh?

[assassino]

Bodily harm is acceptable as a threat, I think.

[secondchances]

It's a promise. So keep behaving. Or else!

[assassino]

I will, I will. I would even without a threat!