Second target ❖video

[nelsangue]

[There's a grunt, muffled as much as can be and the thwump of a body clad in robes joined by the metallic rattle of weapons as Ezio rolls to take the impact out of the fall following her jump. It is hard to ignore any sort of pull to home and while Rome is not a true home, she has been settled there, working and training and striking at her

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[noneedforheroic]

[Rude watches this curiously. That kind of city crawling was more Reno's deal than her own, but not completely foreign. They were a slightly different kind of assassin, besides.]

There's probably someone willing around.

[nelsangue]

Would you be interested at all?

[If you don't ask then you'll never know after all.]

[noneedforheroic]

[She quirks an amused eyebrow.]

Yeah, I might just be.

[nelsangue]

Forgive me, I am Ezio Auditore, and you?

[noneedforheroic]

[Not that she's all about formalities or anything, just a bad sense of humor.]

My name's Rude. There's quite a few people hanging around looking for some practice.

[nelsangue]

Rude? [Yeah, she might need to grin at that one, she likes it.] So many in a place where a queen wants us to give in to romantic notions.

[noneedforheroic]

Maybe she wants us rehabilitated.

[Her own smile is dark.]

Wish her all the luck in the world with that one.

[nelsangue]

Perhaps she should do more herself instead of delegating duties to wild animals.

[noneedforheroic]

That's never how the bitches at the top work.

[You didn't look naive to her, lady.]

[nelsangue]

I had hoped for once that I might see a change from the norm.

[Because twice now she's seen work given to others that has never turned out the way the master - Rodrigo - planned.]

[noneedforheroic]

There's plenty of that.

[nelsangue]

I wonder what kind of woman she really is; bringing only women to her garden, vines with mirrors and creating things from the dirt.

[noneedforheroic]

She doesn't like to show her face much, so I couldn't say. But it's not way to inspire obedience.

[nelsangue]

Those in charge in Italy like to let the people see them in all their finery, with all the guards, to inspire fear and, as you said, obedience.

[noneedforheroic]

A little envy never hurts, people need something to envy, otherwise they'd just lie around and jerk off all day.

[That seemed to be what the Queen wanted though, and for a lady of ambition, like Rude... it didn't make a whole lot of sense.]

[nelsangue]

[This is like conversations she's had with Leonardo or one she had with her mother as a teenager where she has no idea what she's meant to really say at all.]