Ezio walked through the streets, on the occastion, she'd kick a stone, but mostly it was was a blank walk. She hadn't any reason to go anywhere in particular. Nowhere would help her with her problems. Not one person would ever understand.
With a gust of wind, a piece of paper fluttered and hit her leg. Now knitting her eyebrows, she picked the paper off and held it up so she could read it.
Madam Annetta- Fortune Teller
With a sigh, she shook her head. Not much a believer of such. But then again, she had never believed she'd ever turn into a woman either and here she was. Maybe some reassurence is better than none.
With a knock on the door, she waited a long moment before an old woman, with deep blue eyes that seemed as vast as an ocean, answered. And so Ezio choked back her nervous edge as she greeted evenly, "Bongiorno, Madam Annetta."
The woman smiled, making a beauty mark near her lip vanish away under a wrinkle. "Ah, you mush be here to have your fortune told, darling." Then she grestured inside, her simple, yet lovely sea foam dress flowing as she side stepped to let her inside. "My goodness, you pour dear. I can already tell you've been through so much."
It wouldn't take a genius like Leonardo to pick up on that, since she was in a slightly torn dress and her hair was in a sloppy pony tail, which she hadn't bothered on fixing. It was all too clear that she had been struggling, at least recently.
Madam Annetta pulled a chair out for Ezio by a table covered by a midnight table cloth. With a gentle tone, she asked, "May I know your name, Signorina?"
Ezio nodded and took a seat, "Si, my name is Eliza." Though she had to force herself to not spit the name with disgust as it only gave her shame, reminding her that she wasn't herself.
"What a beautiful name." She commented as she ajusted the silky hood attatched to her dress. To her, the clothing kind of reminded her of Paola, with a long white braid. Just simplier. She sat down, with a leg crossed over the other as she knitted her fingers and looked to Ezio with a look that seemed just uncomfortable. Like she could see straight through her and know who she really was. Then she held out her hand. "May I see your palm, Eliza?"
Ezio held out her hand, letting Madam Annetta take it and run a well managed fingernail through one of the lines in her hand. Looking with interest at some of the scars that were already there. It almost made her uncomfortable, probably because here she was presenting her causoused palm, and this woman had smooth and unscaved hands.
"Hmm." Madam Annetta looked up after a long moment, her finger stopping somewhere on a line that looped around her thumb. "I see much travel in your future, a life without a perment home. Much distance you've already gone." Then she dragged her finger across to some line just above it, fuzed to the first at the beginning and parting away. Then she sighed, "From what your hand tells me, you're a smart, and headstrong person. Very self reliant. Her nail traced to a circle which marked around the middle, although there was one similar near the beginning, this one was slightly larger. "I see there will be mental confusion for you in years to come, something will happen that you will not be able to prevent. And it will stay with you for a long time." Her finger traced back to the first, "But as it seems, this has already happened before." Then she pointed out a few tiny lines scoring across the main one at a part, "Your desisions will be influced by others, and it already has been before." Then she moved up to the last line, one that was just above the first two, and cutting through to end near the nook of her index and middle fingers. "A strong heart, and it seems you have struggled with your emotions." She reached a point where the line was dashed by smaller. "It seems your fate has been dashed many of times, you've been hurt by people, and it's made it hard for you to believe in much because of it. And... you've lost so much."
She looked back to Ezio, meeting her unsteady look with a calm and assuring smile. "But I also see a long life, with success because your determination." Then she patted her shoulder. "Don't worry about it, Eliza. From what I've found, you'll turn out alright, and none of it will be any worse than the first time, as it seems all of the troubles you have yet to see has possibly happened before in your life." Then she stood up, letting Ezio follow.
"But what does it mean?" Ezio asked. "You're saying that I'm going have more confusion in the future, that others will influence my judgement. Should I be worried?"
Madam Annetta shook her head, "Not in the slightest. It's your destiny, and what will happen may not be clear now, but you'll know soon." Then she lead Ezio to the door. "Now, my dear, I think you should be heading back, someone you know is worried about you." Ezio nodded, then she added before closing the door, "Oh, and there will also be a small stroke of luck to come to you. But I must warn you, a danger is in the near future, be weary of the dark."
Ezio nodded again, "Gazie, Madam Annetta. For everything." Then she started to walk back to the workshop. The sun nearing the horizon.
Yup, Ezio went to a fortune teller. And when she said that "there will be mental confusion for you in years to come, something will happen that you will not be able to prevent. And it will stay with you for a long time", I know that you're all going to yell at me if I don't tell you. *cough cough* Leonardo dies *cough cough*
I got the idea after having my own palm read. I dunno, just a random thought that I think was interesting.
