There was a war. Perhaps there are pockets of different thinking. It is the simplest way of explaining. [And it was easy to have an idealised notion of the North, living in the South. One was freedom and the other was fear. Very few had the chance to find out if it was true.]

[She listens to Ezio's explanation quietly.] A poison, then. Quiet. In places where there should be trust. [Corruption was never an issue she'd really dealt with. There was nothing secret about anything Prevent did, because there was no one to hold them to account for any of it.] There hasn't been a Pope in my world for many years. And most priests are allies.