Kai: “Are you sure that this is a good idea, Kai?” Diego asked as we sat inside the plane. “I am going to ask you this question, and you are going to be very clear with your answer.” I said, turning to look at him. “Couldn’t you think of asking before we got on the plane?” “He is not going to change my mind, Kai. You two can stop trying.” Irina said, and I shook my head. I knew that this wasn’t something that I wanted to do. And I had to admit, I didn’t even know how Irina was really feeling. All I knew was the fact that she wasn’t okay. In truth, I knew that she wanted to be anywhere but here right now. She was just good at hiding it. “You know, this wasn’t supposed to be something that you heard.” I said, and Irina shrugged. “Things are going to get harder from here, Irina, and Cosimo is not going to stop…” “He has crossed the line when he killed my father in the first place. And trust me, had it been up to me at the time, I would have killed him. He might have done it too, b

Kai:To say that Cosimo was scared of facing us would not be a lie. The man has been sending his pawns and dogs to fight for the past three days, and even approaching the colosseum was impossible at this point. But I knew that we got half way through. We were getting in tonight.“Are you sure that you are going to want to do this, both of you?” Ezra asked, looking at both Irina and Lea. Irina shook her head at the man. They knew better than we did when it came to this, and something inside me tells me that we are going to be dealing with more than what we are ready for. I just know for fact that we are going to have to deal with it as it is. The man is going to have to pay for what he has made us live through, and it is not going to happen if we don’t react against him and what he’s doing.“I am not going to back out after everything that I am learning. The man killed my father, and I am still calling him father because he raised me. I am not even sure that what you are telling me is

Irina:“What is going on?” I asked, frowning at the sight of the place getting evacuated.Women and men were running, the cries of children filled the air around us. And it wasn’t until the smell of blood filled my nostrils that my eyes widened in surprise.“You need to leave the building, ma’am. There is a woman whose been hurt, and we are going to need to evacuate tourists who haven’t been on this side. There are others who are being questioned, but do run along, there is nothing to see her.” A man dressed in a security suit said, making me frown. The man was no human. He seemed to be too calm to be one. Plus, the way he spoke and kicked us out, in Italy, told me that he wasn’t one of the security men.I looked at Kai for a moment, and he shook his head, silently letting me know that even he didn’t know what was going on.The two of us turned to leave, we were going to need to find a different path inside. “Could Cosimo really have done this to ensure that we didn’t…?”“I don’t know

Irina:Flashback:“Hi,” I said, smiling at the man who stood in front of a rose bush. It was one that I loved, I took care of it myself.“Hello,” he said, turning to face me. His eyes were grim, and if anything, I would say that he was angry. Though what he was angry about, I had no way of finding out.“Do you want a flower? I grew them myself.” I said, and he raised an eyebrow.“You are willing to kill a flower just to give it to me?” He asked, and I smiled.“It doesn’t count as killing it, though. Flowers are there to make others happy, and you don’t seem very happy. I figure to give you one to make you smile.” I said, and the man nodded. I picked one flower and careful not to cut my finger, plucked it before handing it to him. “Now, you are going to tell the flower your name, and its scent would give you the happiness of all the world.”“Auditore, Bartolomeo Auditore.” He said, and I nodded.“Irina,” I said, extending a hand to him. “Why are you out here on your own? I saw you with

Irina:I stood on a cloud. At least, that is what it felt like.Kai’s eyes were fixed on mine for a moment, and I shook my head in question, trying to understand how things got to where they were or what even happened in the first place. Either way, I had no answer to give, and I knew that neither did he.“Are you okay?” He asked, and I nodded, taking a deep breath, processing what we saw.The colosseum walls were stable, and the ground was back to normal. There were no sandmen, and we stood, calm and collected. However, it wasn’t until we heard sobs that we snapped out of what was supposedly the reality of what we had lived.Anastasia or Katerina, whatever her name was for that matter, lay dead on the floor with her mother looking at her. The fact that Cosimo had been cold enough to hide a daughter from her mother for all this time. To be cruel enough to not even tell her where the girl was told me a lot about him.“You’re bleeding.” I said, looking at Kai. His left eyebrow had blood