The setting is unremarkable to Ezio; entertaining guests in a room like this does not strike him as odd at all. It's more hospitable than any other room in the place. Fit, he thinks, for someone he is meant to work with so closely.

But in light of the week he's had, it feels like an overcompensation.

"I grew up wealthy," he confirms, and he sets about setting the table. "I have had some training here, but I have done a little bit of everything. A bodyguard, a consultant, a financier, a teacher..."

A shrug, a little flippant.

"I would get bored if I was just a soldier."