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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[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.

[foundjuanting]

And you call me deluded. You simply can not accept even the possibility that you drove her from you, or drove her further still to her death... much less that it all still might weigh on your mind.

... A matter sealed for a matter sealed. I speak no more of the woman, and you speak no more of the stableboy I took care of.