Arrival fallout

[cardinalsinned]

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

Comments

[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.

[maleborgia]

Oh?

[cardinalsinned]

I suppose Juan told you how things ended between us.

[maleborgia]

He didn't have to.

[cardinalsinned]

Oh? I had no such notion at your age.

[looking away] Of the depths he was capable of.

[maleborgia]

*turning away, getting a book, handing it over* Look.

[cardinalsinned]

[reading]

... Is this supposed to be a joke?

[maleborgia]

Here we are men of ink and paper, not the flesh and blood.

[cardinalsinned]

[throwing the book down]

Lies and slander. Only I will say how my life is lived.

[maleborgia]

Then you have no one to blame but yourself for what you have done.

[cardinalsinned]

Juan has only himself to blame for his death. Or did he not mention his betrayal of our family when he explained what happened?

[maleborgia]

He has to carry the fault of his betrayal, yes, and it is a heavy one to be sure, but he is no more guilty for the act you carried out than he would be were he a prisoner and you his executor. If you feel it was just, then it is a matter to be sorted between you and God, but the weight of fraticide does not fall on him.

[cardinalsinned]

If you believe this, [he indicates the book he threw down] you will follow the same path.

[maleborgia]

No, I did not say that. We are all accountable for our past actions. I have not yet killed my brother and with God's grace I never will.

[cardinalsinned]

God's grace has nothing to do with any of Juan's actions.

[maleborgia]

Not wholly, as I said he must accept the blame for them himself. I was not talking about him, however, but about how you--and how I--handle it.

[cardinalsinned]

Death has no hold here. So there is no danger of repeating his offenses, or mine.

[maleborgia]

There are other things we might do.

[cardinalsinned]

I am open to suggestions.

[maleborgia]

I am not giving them.

[cardinalsinned]

Then my only suggestion is to keep him out of trouble by keeping him under lock and key. It is the only way.