Nancy blinks, clearly taken aback by his question. Her mouth is suspiciously dry, she can't help but notice. She'd be wrong if she said she'd never really thought about it. But there had been so many variables, and even with that, her best case scenario was an almost mournful "I don't know, Cesare."

Because at the end of the day, her best case scenario wouldn't have put her in a place to know Cesare in the first place, except as a character in a history book.