No, your muses don't die, ever. Shh. Get out.
My muse is dead. Tell me how yours is dealing with it. Sae didn’t realize that her objection was Liz assuming she was asking for sads. Please enjoy <3 @invictusmanet
I have received news from la dama Sofia of your passing. She tells me, with a steady hand and strong script, that it was peaceful and with your family to surround you. After the life you have led, Ezio, I cannot imagine a better way to find yourself moving on from this world. A world, I will not hesitate to say, that has been bettered for your work and your presence in it. Italia, Constantinopla, and España alone have many reasons to thank you for all you have done.
I must also thank you. I have told you many times how grateful I am to have sought you out when the Spanish Brotherhood seemed doomed to fail under mine and Maria’s hands. Try though we might, we could not grasp what lay just beyond our reach, and you helped us extend just a bit farther to truly understand what it takes to be not only a part of a Brotherhood, but a leader of one. The reborn Spanish Brotherhood flourishes in its infancy, and we have you to thank for the assistance.
And yet, I must also thank you far more personally than that. With the slaying of the Brotherhood, I lost my surrogate family. Brothers and sisters I had come to admire and find kinship in. People I could trust with my very life with no hesitation. With their loss, and the initial loss of Maria, I felt I had nothing left. But I have long since come to seek you out for more than just sound advice. In you, I have found friendship. Someone I could speak freely with, enjoy ourselves a drink, and discuss whatever trivial or profound thought might cross our minds. I have called you my dearest friend, and I have meant it with complete sincerity.
As you know, Maria has passed some years ago. She had the chance to grow old and have a family, two beautiful daughters that brought her joy - and bountiful frustration. They succeed us as we grow old, just as Flavia and Marcello succeed you. I believe we are all leaving good things behind us, positive influences in the world. Sofia is a strong woman, and you have had beautiful children I have been proud to know. I am saddened by your passing, but just as with Maria, I am pleased that it was after a life of fulfillment. Even the pain cannot eclipse the joy on your face when you looked upon your family. True happiness, Ezio. I believe we have found it.
Yet even still, I cannot help but weep. Regardless of what we leave behind, I have lost my two closest friends. I find solace in my daughters, in being able to spend time with your family, to know that I have found wonderful things in this world. Yet still I wish I could speak with you again. To receive a response to this letter. To see you again when I next visit Italy.
I miss you, mi hermano, and if there should be a life after this one, I hope we shall be reunited in it.