BASTIEN
"Closer..? Hm. So less ocean, in your Earth?" Bastien asked, briefly lost in thought of how that would have changed the Earth he had known. Having left the world long before the concept of a Pangea was made, he had no real way to visualise the map Aisha meant. "I see. I wonder...if it is perhaps far back or forward in time. There is a man in Torchline from 1986. That year seemed very distant to me." And Nate had looked at him as if he were a fossil in return.
"A country and a fine one at that. I actually was born in France -- " He pointed to the right place on his makeshift map. "-- but moved to Italy to pursue my dreams of being an artist. Venice, the city where I lived...it bled creativity and life." The love he felt for his city had only grown since he'd come to Caido, a combination of nostalgia and grief raising it to near mythical proportions in his mind.
The government was somewhat harder to explain. "Venice is a state unto itself, a republic. The man at the top is the Doge, then his few followers, usually wealthy merchants." It was clear from the disdain in Bastien's voice that he didn't care for the system. "The charm was in the people living true lives, not those bullying the rest for a life at the top."
"A country and a fine one at that. I actually was born in France -- " He pointed to the right place on his makeshift map. "-- but moved to Italy to pursue my dreams of being an artist. Venice, the city where I lived...it bled creativity and life." The love he felt for his city had only grown since he'd come to Caido, a combination of nostalgia and grief raising it to near mythical proportions in his mind.
The government was somewhat harder to explain. "Venice is a state unto itself, a republic. The man at the top is the Doge, then his few followers, usually wealthy merchants." It was clear from the disdain in Bastien's voice that he didn't care for the system. "The charm was in the people living true lives, not those bullying the rest for a life at the top."
Still my heart is heavy
With the hate of some other man's beliefs
With the hate of some other man's beliefs
