I hope for your sake that there are; if I have been taught anything over the years it is that there are always pockets of people who share ideologies. They band together tightly when they are oppressed, for both good and ill. [There must surely be small groups of Templar out there in other countries where they do not have influence or sway yet.]

[She laughs unexpectedly.] Poison is a favourite of this family; cantarella is their poison of choice and Lucrezia is certainly a master of it. [But she nods; she knows that they have a sympathetic Pope now but the dream has not given her this.] There are some priests who only want what they are taught but men are men and will always have ambition.