CLOSED setting: the cloisters, inside
The gallery takes the form of a thirteenth-century chapel, its tall windows decorated with Austrian stained glass. The tomb effigy of crusader Jean d'Alluye lies in the center of the space, flanked by fourteenth-century Catalan tombs of the counts of Urgell.
It's the sort of architecture he can appreciate. Gothic, and so desaturated it's nearly monochrome. He hadn't seen anything like it since — well, since England.
Without supervision, Lee rests his wine glass on top of one of the tombs. Not disrespect for the dead — much more the feeling that they shouldn't be left out. Besides, it's merely a display piece, anyway.
"I'd like one like it," he comments. "Well, better. ...Quite bland, innit? Not much pzazz." Beat. "How about you?"













