Arrival fallout

[cardinalsinned]

[Two Cesares and a Juan walk into a bar Canada. It may not end well.]

Comments

[maleborgia]

*opening the door to where he's already stashed Juan* I expect you to control yourself. I hardly need a repeat of what has been written about us.

[cardinalsinned]

He has already come back to life once, what more can I do to him?

[and man is Cesare pissed... it might be wise to take his weapons at this point]

[maleborgia]

*there is a bench. Gestures to it* Lay down your weapons. I have learned from last time.

[cardinalsinned]

Only if yours stay there as well. I may trust myself and those like me, but I will not be taken for a fool.

[you first... other me]

[foundjuanting]

[MAN IS THAT THE SOUND OF FUSSY BROTHERS? I THINK SO. Putting away the stone in the bag.]

You have returned. Good, I was growing tired of waiting.

[maleborgia]

*if you're opening that door it is just in time to see me disarm myself and motion for othercesare to do the same*

[cardinalsinned]

You too, Juan.

[gesturing at the bench where he's laying his weapons]

[foundjuanting]

I believe that I owe our host a debt anyway.

[weapons down, FIEN :T ]

[maleborgia]

You do, and we will discuss it later. Bring me the rest of that wine you took, Juan. This is not an entirely serious occasion after all, and in fact seems worthy of a toast.

[cardinalsinned]

What could we possibly toast to?

[though he won't say no to wine]

[foundjuanting]

New beginnings, a ceasefire, the lack of permanent death.

[maleborgia]

*disappearing into his own room for a moment, then reappearing with a set of nice glasses, pouring for all of them there better be enough left in this bottle to do that, Juan*

What better things could three kinsmen ask for? We are blessed, and we should feel ourselves as such. *raising his glass, looking from Juan to ...other Cesare.*

[cardinalsinned]

I would prefer an explanation and directions to Rome. But I will settle for a toast to good wine.

[a very reluctant toast, but a toast none the less]

[maleborgia]

*sometime later, without Juan, in one of the Cesares' rooms*

How might I clarify things for you?

[cardinalsinned]

I would appreciate some sort of proof that you are who you say you are. You are happy enough to work on the assumption that we are the same man at different ages, but I am not yet convinced.

[maleborgia]

"Happy enough"...?

We are obviously not the same, if only that your eyes are brown and mine are blue. What I mean more precisely is that every man has a role, and we seem to have been given the same one. Our genealogies are the same, as are the basic facts of our lives.

[cardinalsinned]

That only makes this more suspicious. How can two men share the same past and different lives?

[maleborgia]

There are two different stories of the creation of man, and yet we do not doubt that we walk upon this earth.

[cardinalsinned]

We have a similar way with words.

[he's amused, but still has that slightly dangerous look.]

[maleborgia]

I would be disappointed if we did not.

[cardinalsinned]

We can trade witticisms another time.

How are you with a sword?

[maleborgia]

As good as I hope you are with a bow, or a lance.

[cardinalsinned]

[good answer]

And have you used it?

[maleborgia]

Of course I have.

[cardinalsinned]

Good. Then this may work out between us yet.