Fitting In
Fitting in is a memory in Assassin's Creed II.
Description
Shocked at the betrayal of family friend Uberto Alberti, Ezio Auditore reaches his home only to find out that it has been overrun by the city guards, who are hunting for him. With every guard in the city looking for him, Ezio tries to make sure his mother and sister are safe.
Surviving
After nightfall, Ezio tries to return to his home, but doesn't enter when he sees guards posted around the building. He waits 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 makes his way to La Rosa Colta. He and Annetta both enter the building which turns out to be a brothel, not exactly what he had expected.
- Ezio: I think we have the wrong building...
- Annetta: No, no. This is it.
A woman approaches 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 follows Paola to the back of the building. She instructs 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 follows Paola's instructions. To test him they take a walk around the brothel. Ezio keeps moving from one group to the next, confusing any guard who might have seen him.
After returning to the brothel Paola teaches 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 learns how to steal after pickpocketing a few people in the vicinity.
The Weapon
- 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 learns 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. -
Paola
