Last night had been... unpleasant. The thoughts running through his head, so clear and real to him, had been of someone else, someone much more emotional for a start. He'd really felt the loss, a deep sadness he'd never experienced in his life, and yet it felt like it had. If that wasn't bad enough, it had been accompanied by a flood of memories of being... happy. It wasn't that he wasn't normally happy, he could be very happy, but there had been something about it, so carefree and lacking his usual smoothness. The whole thing had left him very unsettled, and he did not like to be unsettled.

The conference was the only thing going on, so it was the only thing for him to take his mind off the strange, modern ideas in his head. He spotted the tiny roman temple from across the room, and it's familiar enough to draw him over to it, a little piece of home in this confusing place.

There was already a young man standing beside it, watching the building be completed, but Maecenas was content to ignore him - until his passing glance caused him to double take. There was something very familiar about him...