Chapter Eight: A World Of Changes
Sky and Tom walked into the Saint-Mary-Through-The –Vines. Brother Sandro walked up to greet them. Sky almost didn't recognize him as being the orphaned boy who he had roamed the streets with. Sandro had gotten almost as tall as Sky. Brother Sulien walked up after Sandro. Sulien embraced Sky. Tom stood, wondering who these men were. Sky finally introduced Tom to Sandro and Sulien.
"I have heard about you from Rodolfo. He seems to think rather highly of you." Sulien and Tom went to talk in Sulien's quarters. Sandro and Sky made their way through the maze. When they got to the center, they sat down to talk.
"Luciano has came to see me every chance he gets. After you left, Carlo tried to have Luciano arrested. Then, The Eel came forward and said that it was his fault Niccolò died. When The Eel worked for Rinaldo di Chimici, Rinaldo sent him to kill Sylvia but instead he killed her body-double, Guilianna. Guilianna was Enrico's fiancée. Carlo had no choice but to let Luciano go." Sandro and Sky stood as Sulien approached. Sulien sat next to Sky and asked him about his family. When Sky told Sulien about his mother and father and Loretta, Sulien asked about Alice.
Sky told Sulien about the day before and how, when he hadn't expected it, she called him back. She had told him that she hadn't wanted to break up with him but that she thought it would be better. She had tears in her eyes as she told him of how she had waited for him to return or at least to write her. Sky put his arm around her. When they went to look for Georgia and Nick, they had disappeared and were nowhere to be seen. Alice asked Sky to go to dinner with her and Sky told her about the dinner with his mother and her father. She said she knew and that was what she had been asking him to go to.
Dinner that night seemed to fly by. Sky spent the entire night watching Alice and, out of the corner of his eye, she kept looking at him. Sky felt his heart soar when he saw the way she looked at him. Soon, Paul noticed the way his daughter was glancing at Sky and asked Rosalind to dance. He figured they should leave them alone. Sky had asked Alice to marry him. She immediately said yes, of course.
Meanwhile, Georgia and Nick were waiting in the sitting room. A maid walked in and immediately recognized Nick. As she screamed, three guards followed closely by Gaetano rushed into the room. One of the guards seized Nick by the wrist and took him to the dungeon. Georgia realized that Nick didn't have his talisman. Gaetano reassured her that he would take it to Nick. Georgia told Gaetano she wanted to stay with him nut Gaetano told her to leave. Georgia started to argue but Gaetano put up his hand to silence her. Georgia flew Merla back to Remora and soon stravagated home. Cesar could see that something was wrong but Georgia wouldn't tell him what.