Have you heard?
(playing cards with her two youngest children) Even Joffrey has heard, have you not?
The Pope is dead?
You know what that means?
I know there will be an election.
(enters after Cesare) And the city will be bedlam until it is over.
Do you think our father can win, Juan?
Are we allowed to dream, Mother?
Your father found ways to love and care for us in this house, but I'm not sure that, as Pope, he can do the same.
As Pope, he can do what he wants.
(gives him a direct look) Are you sure? Kings and Popes and Emperors belong to their people, not to their families.
So- we allow the election to run its' course, and he won't be Pope?
What other course is there? It's in the hands of God.
(smiles) It's in the hands of the College of Cardinals, Mother. Not quite the same thing. (gestures to Joffrey to play a particular card) This one.
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