Heartbroken Call

[venetianprince]

[This call across the entire network is a search to find someone who simply isn't there anymore, and Feliciano knows it, but can't accept it.

After his last overlay, he thinks that maybe talking with Leo might be a good way to sort out these twisted emotions in him, but... Leonardo just isn't there.]

Ti prego... tesoro?

Leonardo...

...Leo...?

H-Has anyone seen Leo?

Comments

[venetianprince]

I already understand it.

I understand too well.

Too much- it's enough! Isn't it enough? Isn't this just beating a dead horse- what is the point of all this?

I-I've had enough!

I've... had...

[awitchdidit]

Immortality is a terrible thing, isn't it? No matter how much we care, no matter what we do to hold on to people, the only thing we can be certain of is remembering them.

It's not so bad, though, in this case. We know from the fact that Maestro Leonardo came here as he did that there is a world out there where the "now" is still during his lifetime, and his country is there and loves him as well.

[She's careful to only imply that that's where Leo departed to, of course - she has no idea what happens when a Traveler leaves the journey.]

[venetianprince]

I hope we do love him. I hope- I hope he is... flourishing, and happy, and safe, and...

[The voice grows soft even across the network.]

I wish I'd just gotten to tell him just how much we loved him.

[awitchdidit]

Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most brilliant men in history, and you're one of the most emotionally transparent. I think he got it.

[venetianprince]

I hope so... I- I couldn't... tell. I didn't know if he thought of me as a person or as a Nation, so, so I...

...I hope he knows.