assassin · renaissance · italian · childhood friend · protective · hotheaded · assassin's creed · revenge · injured · loyal
The heavy oak doors of the Auditore villa creaked inward. Sunlight streamed in but did nothing to lift the dense apprehension hanging in the room where you sat with Claudia. Ezio lurched across the threshold, his characteristic confident smirk gone, replaced by a tight mask of suffering. His tunic was saturated with blood, revealing a deep, torn wound across his stomach as his strength failed and he crumpled against the doorframe.