[The thing he doesn't seem to get is that she doesn't feel a connection either, not in the way he might think. They're similar, actually, in that he lived never knowing he had technically fathered a child, and she lived knowing what fathers were as a concept while not once caring that hers was absent, not when he had never been there to miss in the first place.
But they do have one tenuous connection, in that he is...maybe the only person besides Diavolo who personally knew Donatella Una, although he doesn't remember her, so what does it matter? What does she get if she somehow conjures the barest memory? Diavolo never spoke of her, and Trish is sure she would spit fire over anything he could possibly say, and she's sure Doppio's opinion would inspire similar rancor.
What happened that summer only carried weight because she exists, after all.
Otherwise, it would have been just a distant memory. But now she's got the lonely position as the only living proof either of her parents ever existed, a forgotten woman and a forgotten man erased from the world just months apart. She supposes Doppio can happily not care about any of it as he always has, which is irritating, but unsurprising.
His question is easy to answer, at least.]
The whole point of going to Rome for me was twofold. Specifically, to find out who exactly my father was, and then to kill him. What I learned in Rome went against what precious little I did know about him, and was secondary to making sure he couldn't ever hurt anyone again; so in a way, it was different the moment we faced each other on the battlefield.
And then I was left with questions no one could answer. The dead can't speak, and the living can speculate until they're dead too, without ever reaching the truth.
However, I'll admit I know nothing about your boss other than what he was able to show in Rome. Maybe he really is just like you when he isn't faced with someone he can only see as an enemy. Maybe he does stop to chat with insects and frogs as amiably as you have in the past. Maybe he's clumsy and awkward too.
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But they do have one tenuous connection, in that he is...maybe the only person besides Diavolo who personally knew Donatella Una, although he doesn't remember her, so what does it matter? What does she get if she somehow conjures the barest memory? Diavolo never spoke of her, and Trish is sure she would spit fire over anything he could possibly say, and she's sure Doppio's opinion would inspire similar rancor.
What happened that summer only carried weight because she exists, after all.
Otherwise, it would have been just a distant memory. But now she's got the lonely position as the only living proof either of her parents ever existed, a forgotten woman and a forgotten man erased from the world just months apart. She supposes Doppio can happily not care about any of it as he always has, which is irritating, but unsurprising.
His question is easy to answer, at least.]
The whole point of going to Rome for me was twofold. Specifically, to find out who exactly my father was, and then to kill him. What I learned in Rome went against what precious little I did know about him, and was secondary to making sure he couldn't ever hurt anyone again; so in a way, it was different the moment we faced each other on the battlefield.
And then I was left with questions no one could answer. The dead can't speak, and the living can speculate until they're dead too, without ever reaching the truth.
However, I'll admit I know nothing about your boss other than what he was able to show in Rome. Maybe he really is just like you when he isn't faced with someone he can only see as an enemy. Maybe he does stop to chat with insects and frogs as amiably as you have in the past. Maybe he's clumsy and awkward too.
Regardless, I think I know the truth.