It sounds alien. [She says this as calmly as possible; she was warned about aliens upon her arrival after all.] Something beautiful masking something ugly, something ugly masking something beautiful. I am not sure it should be comforting to know that other worlds can seem like my own.

Travel is good for that; seeing a new place, meeting new people, discovering new challenges. [Hopefully with less death although Rome was good for her, she got to build bridges with Claudia, bringing the family (the remains of the family, only the three of them) back together again.] Changed for ill or for good?

It is not that I enjoy violence [she has never and will never enjoy taking a life. It brings only satisfaction in knowing she is making the world a better place] but there are things you must do to ensure peace, safety, stability.

[The same goal as the Templars but she fights for freedom too, for choices, not to enslave all minds without them being allowed an opinion.]