quarantacinque || video
Jan. 28th, 2011 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
betrayedblade[The video is dark when the device turns on. Giovanni removes his hand a moment later but the device isn't entirely facing him and the picture is skewed at an odd angle. There is the usual rubble of the worse parts of the town in the background.
The brown bundle off to the side moves slightly and it becomes apparent the shape is that of a man hunched over. It's still hard to distinguish much.]
...sed libera nos a malo.
[The figure coughs violently.]
...libera nos a malo. Avrei...
...
Così è stato questo inferno tutto il tempo? [He begins to laugh harshly and then breaks into more coughing...and what can barely be heard to sound like heartbroken sobbing intermixed.]
[[Note: Giovanni has just come back from a canon update. He has just lived through his death. He is weeping for his dead sonswho are not dead here but that is besides the point. He is in his normal clothes--aka, not the assassin's robes--and there is a rather nasty red mark around his neck from where the noose hung him that will be seen in some replies.
tl;dr: He's back from a disappearance of his own.]]
[[Translations: ...and deliver us from evil.
...deliver us from evil. I would have...
So was this hell all along?]]
The brown bundle off to the side moves slightly and it becomes apparent the shape is that of a man hunched over. It's still hard to distinguish much.]
...sed libera nos a malo.
[The figure coughs violently.]
...libera nos a malo. Avrei...
...
Così è stato questo inferno tutto il tempo? [He begins to laugh harshly and then breaks into more coughing...and what can barely be heard to sound like heartbroken sobbing intermixed.]
[[Note: Giovanni has just come back from a canon update. He has just lived through his death. He is weeping for his dead sons
tl;dr: He's back from a disappearance of his own.]]
[[Translations: ...and deliver us from evil.
...deliver us from evil. I would have...
So was this hell all along?]]
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[video]
Date: 2011-01-29 08:38 am (UTC)The rest of the matter--the fact that she is his daughter and when she learned to fight--will remain for another time.]
I do not need protection. Not from your brothers and not from you. If I didn't know they would not be as stubborn as I at their age--I would not have them here at all.
I know my way back, and I am capable of dodging a few beasts.
Stay put. That is an order, not a request.
[video]
Date: 2011-01-29 08:55 am (UTC)As you command. I trust your judgment.
[ Claudia bows her head in acceptance even as she smooths her expression, setting pain and disappointment aside. ]
I will see you soon, mio Padre. Be cautious.
[video]
Date: 2011-01-29 09:04 am (UTC)[He smiles suddenly and leans towards the communicator conspiratorially.]
For you, anything cara. I look forward to it. [And, implied, seeing this supposed skill you've developed in his absence.]
[video]
Date: 2011-01-29 09:08 am (UTC)It is not for your sense of caution that I am concerned, Padre.