Marco Polo2014

Kublai Khan:
Do you have brothers?

Marco Polo:
I wish I had. Someone to play with.

Kublai Khan:
Someone to conspire with. Brothers sometime blessing, sometime curse. Like those in your holy book. Cain and Abel? Tell me of them.

Marco Polo:
Sons of Adam. Cain was the first man to be born. Abel, the first to die.

Kublai Khan:
By the blade of his brother, yes?

Marco Polo:
Envious of God's love for Abel, Cain killed his brother, concealed his body and lied to the Lord above.

Kublai Khan:
What became of the murderer?

Marco Polo:
He bore the mark of Cain and was cursed to roam the Earth, endlessly.

Kublai Khan:
To this day?

Marco Polo:
No. He wandered until he could wander no more. So he took a wife, built a house and lived there until it collapsed and crushed him dead. Some say this is an invented story, nothing more. Meant to impart a greater lesson.

Kublai Khan:
Which is?

Marco Polo:
The scholars and historians of Venice are superior to all others across the land. I have not the studies to begin to explore such questions.

Kublai Khan:
Try.

Marco Polo:
It is in our nature to seek our brother's possessions. And be willing to destroy to obtain them.