Truly! you have not asked me brother. I have lived here for a year by myself. With none of our family, in darkness and surrounded by horror and monsters. Yet I am well as you see me.

[ true, she lacks scars over a deal done with Gold; true, sleep is no longer her friend and her nightmares are a terror but she is well. ]

This is not Rome; the rules are different.

[ some would think she says 'the rules of the ship'; she knows Cesare would know she meant 'the rules of the game'. ]

I am safe since I have found those loyal to me, to us. do not be so quick to push them away.