However, as a seasoned victim of regional discrimination, Winters harbored no particular animosity towards the people of Flora. This was because when he attended school in Guidao City, United Provincials would often lump all Venetians together, indiscriminately branding them as living debauched lives and leading extravagant lifestyles.
Winters decided to say a word of justice: "[In the old language] It's just a few portraits."
"[In the old language] It's not just a few portraits, my lord." Anna corrected with a smile: "[In the old language] Judging from the technique, the earlier ones can hardly be made out as colored paintings of people, at least two hundred years old...probably the work of some slave artist."
"[In the old language] So?"
"[In the old language] Two hundred years and hardly any fading of the pigments apart from the accumulation of dust—what might that be?"
