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[heloise]

[ Lucrezia writes with a steady hand. ]

This castle is graced no longer by the presence of the Most Eminent Cardinal Cesare Borgia. All matters pertaining to him, which may yet remain outstanding owing to his sudden departure, shall be brought to me for my consideration.

His Eminence's sister
LUCREZIA BORGIA

[ Only she would respond to few if any messages and neither will she be in her quarters, having decided that too many would disturb her there. She is in her brother's room, lying on his bed with her eyes closed with a letter clutched to her chest.

The door is locked. ]

Comments

[msattentionspan]

I don't know, maybe it doesn't, I was just making conversation.

[heloise]

It does not matter. He is no longer here.

[msattentionspan]

It mattered to you, otherwise you wouldn't have told anyone.

[heloise]

Only to me.

[msattentionspan]

Then why'd you make the announcement?

[heloise]

It should matter to them. [ To the entire world. Universe. ]

[msattentionspan]

Then that string of words isn't gonna impact anyone. You gotta put all your anger and hurt into it. Make it count.

Then it'll matter to everyone.

[heloise]

Would it matter more to you had I wept and wailed over the journal?

[msattentionspan]

No. [Faith sounds like she knows she's saying the wrong thing, but she doesn't know what the right thing is.]

Just that letter seems kinda official.

[heloise]

Because it is.

Why must I show them my tears when they will never understand?

[msattentionspan]

Yeah, but people go home here a lot. You're not the first one. You don't know if they'd understand or not, you're not even giving them a shot to understand -- because it doesn't seem like there's anything to understand.

It's just words.

[heloise]

How do you speak, tell your griefs, if not by words?