Ezio: No mere number can repair the world. Come, my friend, help me charter a ship to Navarre. I must finish with Cesare Borgia. It is not intended for us.

Leonardo: Ezio. What are you not telling me?

Ezio: What else are you working on?

Leonardo: Well, I have begun several dissection studies. Then King Louis XII seems interested in hiring me as an engineer. Oh yes, I am thinking of repainting the St. John lost in the Villa fire. Salaì would model for it again, of course. Then, perhaps I will study a woman with child to see how her body changes.

Ezio: Interesting. Tell me more.

Leonardo da Vinci
☼ 15.4.1452
† 2.5.1519

Leonardo: I suppose Salaì is out having fun spending my hard-earned florins?

Ezio: He is safe at home.

Leonardo: I am relieved…about the florins of course.

Ezio: You do not need to lie to me. Salaì fits you. I approve.

Leonardo: I…

Ezio: Leonardo da Vinci at a loss for words? That is a first.