wake up time

[cardinalsinned]

[ This is probably the second worst way to wake up, in a hospital bed with Juan there watching. ]

What... happened to me?

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[cardinalsinned]

Only one of those you name is one I would remove from our talks. But I suppose I might hold my silence on your... habits in exchange for no longer hearing about your death.

Perhaps we should start there for today and discuss more later.

[ He is already starting to regret this ]

[foundjuanting]

Before you go, I would know which of those you would include.

[cardinalsinned]

[ Urge to troll rising ]

Which do you think?

[foundjuanting]

December.

[Look at this faaais. This is the face of a puppy afraid he's going to be kicked]

[cardinalsinned]

Proof once again that you do not know my mind well.

[foundjuanting]

For once I am glad that I am wrong. Is it Forli?

[cardinalsinned]

You are pushing what little luck you have.

[foundjuanting]

I ask because the others on that list are... open, to negotiation.

[cardinalsinned]

What sort of negotiation?

[foundjuanting]

As you have said, one of mine for each.

[cardinalsinned]

Very well, what would I have to give up to never have you question me about what I knew of your attack on Forli?

[foundjuanting]

Ten more sons.

[cardinalsinned]

Then it will be as if Forli never happened for either of us. Agreed.

[foundjuanting]

And I would have an offer for the nun as well.

[cardinalsinned]

I care little of what you say about her.

[foundjuanting]

Is that why each time I mention the matter, you grow furious?

[cardinalsinned]

Perhaps because she does not bear mentioning at all!

[foundjuanting]

You murdered her husband, laid with her while his body rotted, and when she fled to a nunnary you chased her and dogged her every step. How very fitting that you don't consider her worth consideration.

[cardinalsinned]

Our attraction was mutual, I did not have to pay her for her company and her death was a terrible tragedy.

[foundjuanting]

If your attraction was the same, then why did she run from you?

[cardinalsinned]

She ran only from what I did. Why else would she come to a nunnery I was patron of?

[foundjuanting]

Because noble or not, few know the patrons of the houses they attend.

[cardinalsinned]

If you truly wished to flee a man, would you not check?

[foundjuanting]

If the man was the son of the pope of rome, and a cardinal, I would only wish to gain the greatest distance from his city, or enter the nearest convent outside of rome. For some they hold the belief that a man of god will not impune upon another of their order.

[cardinalsinned]

You would make a terrible woman, then. She knew what she was getting herself into. And she did not deserve to die such a terrible death.