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Characters: Dino

witchmaker
Location: Dino's version of Rome.
Time: Continuing from this thread
Summary: Dino is showing Anglea around Rome
Warnings: Umm..nothing yet?

Dino smiled at her, then turned to Romario.

"Have the car brought around again," he said aloud. Romario nodded and pulled out a cell phone but have him a look that Dino knew meant he would be explaining about Angela later. That would bit complicated without mentioning the Plane. He would never have been able to become this close without at least one of his men finding out if it hadn't been for that.
"The coliseum is ancient, but I think it's worth a look at least. It's a reminder of the city's past," he said to Angela as he lead her outside.

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Angela was starting to wonder if Dino had thought out a good lie to explain his guest and her surprising lack of knowledge about things that were, well, standard for most people in his world. From the look on Romario's face (and the way the other men stared at her with complete bewilderment) she hoped for his sake he'd concocted something good.

"How old is it?" She wasn't sure what the standard for "ancient" was in Dino's world.

"It's nearly two thousand years old," he said proudly as he lead her outside and the car came around. He waited for it to stop and opened the door for her, trying to ignore the stares he got from the driver. He wondered if it would have been better to offer to drive himself...but that would still require one of his men to be in the car.
"It's been here since the Roman empire."

Two thousand years was pretty old. Angela wasn't sure if the Light Castle ruins in her world were older or not. Perhaps she shouldn't have fallen asleep during that lecture...

"I'm guessing it's not an empire anymore, then?"

Oh yes, more odd looks from the driver. Angela was starting to wonder how often Dino dated, and her current observations were making her lean towards "hardly ever."

"No, the empire fell around what.." Dino has to pause and think, trying to dredge up all he had learned in school. "Around fifteen hundred years ago I think. It was mighty while it lasted though."

He was getting tired of the looks, and a stiff look from him only seemed to discourage them for a minuet or so. It was a relief to finally reach the coliseum. The driver was out and opening the door for them almost immediately. Dino wondered about that, it was something he had told his men he didn't require them to do.
"Here we are Angela.." he said as he climbed out.

Angela climbed out of the car and took a moment to stare at the ruins before her.

It certainly was a coliseum. And despite having seen better days, it was still impressive. A smile spread across her face. "Wow. Forcena'd give half their land for something like this, I think. I'm guessing it was a warrior empire?"

Angela thought she'd heard something and glanced over her shoulder, but came up just as empty as Dino had.

"All right. Show me around, studly." She grinned a bit and took his hand. "The people who built this thing, were they your ancestors?"

"They might have helped at least. But it was so long ago that it would be impossible for anyone to tell for sure," Dino smiled at her as he lead her over to join the other tourists milling around. "Information like that was lost to history."

He glanced behind him when he felt that prickle on the back of his that told him he was being watched. But he didn't see anyone he would label as a threat. It was probably just another tourist staring at anything and everything.

Angela wasn't sure what a Vatican was, or a Pope for that matter, but either idea sounded good to her. "I'm happy to go wherever you want to."

Angela settled back into the backseat of the car, and that creepy feeling melted away almost instantly. Maybe it really was just the coliseum itself. A lot of people had died there from what the tour guide had said and, well, all it took was one trip on a ghost ship to get you to believe in all kinds of things.

"What is a Vatican, by the way?" There was that look from the driver again. Dino's explanation of where Angela came from was probably going to have to be really good.

"So it's a bit like Wend-- er."

Angela doubted there was a Holy City Wendel in Dino's world. She trailed off, then gave Dino a little smile. "I didn't think you were particularly religious."

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