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.

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[assassino]

I am.

[secondchances]

Then off we go. [She'll steer them in the right direction.]

Is it behind a secret door?

[assassino]

It is. You have stood on it many times.

[secondchances]

Sneaky. I like that much, at least.

[assassino]

So you need not worry about certain friends finding it.

[secondchances]

He's no stranger to finding secrets. But I doubt he'll enter your room for anything.

[assassino]

Can you be so sure?

[secondchances]

He's supposed to be giving you the benefit of the doubt. Invasions of privacy are not that.

[assassino]

I will take your word for it.

[secondchances]

Really, Tim's a good guy...

[Sob. She has to tell both Ezio and Tim that the other is a good person. BOYS.]

[assassino]

I am sure he is a good man –– he is friends with you, after all –– but we men have a way of testing the waters with each other. You will see.

[secondchances]

[Just gives him That Look.

That's what she's afraid of.]

[assassino]

[he laughs]

What?

[secondchances]

Just try to back off before it becomes an issue.

[assassino]

Stephanie, I have no intention of harming the boy.

[secondchances]

And don't embarrass me by being embarrassing.

[assassino]

Of course not. Why would I do that? You think so little of me!

[secondchances]

I don't think little of you, I just know you.

[assassino]

And you would not have me any other way, hmm?

[secondchances]

Uhh... sure. [Pat pats his arm :') ]

[assassino]

Ah, such rousing support.

[secondchances]

Unyielding support, yeah.

[assassino]

That is what I love most about you.

[secondchances]

[She grins.] Aww, you even used the "l" word.

[assassino]

What? I have used it before.