Fitting In

Fitting in is a memory in Assassin's Creed II.

Description

Shocked at the betrayal of family friend Uberto Alberti, Ezio Auditore reached his home only to find out that it had been overrun by the city guards, who were hunting for him. With every guard in the city looking for him, Ezio tried to make sure his mother and sister were safe. After nightfall, Ezio tried to return to his home, but doesn't enter when he sees guards posted around the building. He waited there for Annetta.

• Annetta: Ser Ezio, thank God! I've been looking everywhere for you.
• Ezio: I... I couldn't stop them Annetta. I tried, I swear! But there were so many guards...
• Annetta: Please. Come with me. We need to get you off the streets.
• Ezio: What of my mother and sister?

  

  Ezio arrives at La Rosa Colta.

• Annatta: They're safe. I'll bring you to them.
• Ezio: No! It's too dangerous for us to travel together. Tell me where to go and I'll meet you there.
• Annetta: My sister's house, just north of the Duomo.
• Ezio: I'm on my way.

Ezio carefully made his way to La Rosa Colta. He and Annetta both entered the building which turned out to be a brothel.

• Ezio: I think we have the wrong building...
• Annetta: No, no. This is it.

A woman approached Ezio.

• Paola: It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Messer Ezio...
  Annetta speaks quite highly of you. I can see why.
• Ezio: I appreciate the kind words Madonna...?
• Paola: Ti prego (Please), call me Paola.
• Ezio: Thank you for offering your home to my family, Paola.
• Paola: It was the least I could do. You must be tired. Perhaps you'd li...
• Ezio: No, grazie. (No thank you.) I can't stay.
• Paola: Why? Where are you going?

  

  Paola tells Ezio that he is not ready to kill Uberto.

• Ezio: To kill Uberto Alberti.
• Paola: I understand your desire for vengeance, but the Gonfaloniere is a powerful man. You're not a killer, Ezio-
• Ezio: Spare me the lecture.
• Paola: - But I can make you one.
• Ezio: And why are you going to teach me how to kill?
• Paola: I'm not. I'm going to teach you how to survive.
  Come.

Ezio followed Paola to the back of the building. She instructed him about the ways of blending into the crowd.

• Paola: Discretion is a paramount in my profession. We must walk the streets freely: seen, but unseen. You too must learn to blend like us and become one with the city's crowds.
  My girls will show you how...

Ezio followed Paola's instructions. To test him they took a walk around the brothel. Ezio kept moving from one group to the next, confusing any guard who might have seen him.

Ezio learns how to become one of the crowd.

After returning to the brothel Paola taught Ezio how to steal.

• Paola: Bene! (Good!) Now that you've learned to blend. I'll show you how you can use it for more than just moving around.
  Let's teach you how to steal.
• Courtesan: Thief! Thief!
• Paola: Once you've stolen from someone Ezio, You mustn't linger.
• Courtesan: Help! Somebody stop him!

Ezio learned how to steal after pickpocketing a few people in the vicinity.

• Paola: You can go now, girls.
• Courtesans: Do we have to?
  So innocent...
  He's cute...
• Paola: Now that you've learned how to approach the enemy, we need to find you a suitable weapon.
• Ezio: What would you have me use?
• Paola: Ah, but you already have the answer...
• Ezio: Hey! My father's blade and bracer... How did you get them?

  

  Ezio inquires as to why Paola has given her aid so readily to him.

• Paola: By using the same skills I've just taught you.
• Ezio: It's not exactly in working condition.
• Paola: I assume you are familiar with Leonardo da Vinci?
• Ezio: Sì. (Yes.) But how does a painter factor into this?
• Paola: He's far more than that. Bring him the pieces. You'll see.
• Ezio: Before I go, one last question - if I may?
• Paola: Of course.
• Ezio: Why have you given your aid so readily to me, a stranger?
• Paola: I too know betrayal.

Outcome

Ezio learned how to steal and blend with the crowd making it easy for him to move freely within the city.

Gallery

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  Palazzo Auditore being guarded.
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  Paola