If this was Hell, then of course, he’d be here. It only made sense. Whether he was here as a result of his own actions or to punish her, it wouldn’t be right without him. That still begged the question: what would he do to her? Would he kill her again? She wasn’t sure if that was even worth it. Or maybe, if she died again, she’d fade away from existence and essentially become nothing. It wasn’t particularly nice to think about, but was thinking about him ever nice?
She had spotted that tea leaf head of his before he had noticed her, which meant she had the upper hand in this situation. She could choose when and how to act, if to act at all. But Maria knew she couldn’t get cocky, especially with him. After last time... she had most certainly learned her lesson.
Last time... that was definitely was at the forefront of both their thoughts. She had tried to kill him. He had killed her. Where do you even go from there? It’d make sense for them to continue in a similar pattern, now that all pretenses were gone. He knew how she felt, which left her with no more cards to play.
A smile crept upon her lips, and Maria ran off towards Jacopo, completely open.
Her grin was playful and warm, the kind she’d shown a million times before.
“Heh, who am I kiddin’? There’s no point to all that fancy stuff in a place like this, huh, Jacopo?”
“I say all that, but I guess I don’t really know where we are... Is the Madam here? I can deal with this sort of stuff, but I know it’s not really her forte... Wouldn’t want her to be wanderin’ alone.”