ic: continues because juan is being a Bro.

[maleborgia]

*okay guys do your brotherly love shit.

This Cesare is just in Canada dealing with this complicated.*

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[foundjuanting]

He's having a word with the natives, now I'll have a glass of that wine.

[maleborgia]

*starting to pour but stops*

Did you abandon him?

[foundjuanting]

No, I made sure he knew of the natural help around the camp.

[shakey shakey, this isn't pouring wine into my glass, cesare~]

[maleborgia]

*pause. The kupos. You mean the kupos, don't you?*

What did you do to him?

[foundjuanting]

Cesare you offend me, I'm not my brother's keeper. If you recall it's quite the other way around.

[This glass doesn't magically fill itself :< ]

[maleborgia]

*putting the bottle down but still holding onto it*

He killed you. Are you telling me you had no desire to even things out? Do not take me for a fool.

[foundjuanting]

You are making this a very dreary celebration.

[maleborgia]

This is no celebration, brother.

[foundjuanting]

It certainly is not with that mood.

[maleborgia]

*you've got like an inch of wine almost. You may as well enjoy it because you aren't getting any more.*

And what mood would you have me wear? Jubilation that my brother has turned to fraticide? He hasn't done anything to you as far as he knows. Now he has a reason to.

[foundjuanting]

[FIEN!!1]

He will go home and forget, just as I did. I have now evened the odds brother, would you have me go unavenged?

[maleborgia]

His forgetting does not make it right.

[foundjuanting]

Weren't you the one who called him Cain? Bold words, coming from you.

[maleborgia]

I can be angry with both of you.

[foundjuanting]

That is a fine outcome for you. You can furious with the brother who holds you back, and that which you might become.

[maleborgia]

I imagine our father was displeased with the both of you as well.

[foundjuanting]

You would know, you were the one who was able to see what came after.

[maleborgia]

I was not the one with the power to change it.

[foundjuanting]

No, but you do use it as an excuse to bring judgement down on us. You are younger than us, and yet you act like your world will be different, your version of the family is superior. It is an idea that begs to be tested. It was just over a year ago when my brother would brawl for me in the streets, and I for him. When all of us played cards in the summer heat in the family's villa. One year and I am floating in the Tiber and my dear brother in the swamp, my sister no longer the delicate maiden she was, our mother cast aside, our father snapping like a lean and hungry dog at threats and alliances, and a foul whelp to inherit it all. One year Cesare and we've been reduced to that. Tell me brother, how do you plan to change that for your family and so quickly? How will your superior family fare when you return home and not a memory remains.

[maleborgia]

It will not be different unless it is God's will. I have been given the rare opportunity to come here, for longer than you--hopefully long enough that some of what I have learned will be retained when I return. My family is no superior or inferior to yours, make no mistake. Our lives are just as intertwined but our fate may be different.

[foundjuanting]

Then don't judge my retribution, brother. You may soon be doing the same to my reflection in your world.

[maleborgia]

You would not say that if you knew how much effort I put into trying to do for him what I could not for you.

[foundjuanting]

You say this now, but in a year past father becoming pope you'll have a blade to his throat.

[maleborgia]

I am not so like him on the outside. What makes you think we are identical within?

[foundjuanting]

You carry the same rage and temper, and his jealousy.