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Aurelio: But I wonder if he’s marked which areas to look at with blue-red-green banners.
Like for instance, here, in Bay 23. Can you find a banner with blue-red-green
pattern in it?

(A pause, while ever-patient Aurelio waits for Imaginary Tozzo to scour Bay 23.)

Tozzo: (pointing to the far western edge) There’s a fan-shape of banners. It looks like red-
blue, red-blue, but there, there’s blue-red-green. A fan of some sort. It’s pointing
Aurelio: to a city of flames. Ooo! There are a few people escaping the city, there on the left,
Tozzo: through an arch, through a, through an Omega! And there’s a demon face on the
Aurelio: frame, just like on the folio, too, right? And, and wings on --
Tozzo:
Aurelio: Tozzo.

And wings on the frame, too. What’s that mean, wings? And a cloth wrapped
around the edges.

Tozzo, stop.

Both sides! See, Aurelio, cloths. May they’re painters’ cloths. He’s telling us the
city of Florence is about to burn and we painters need to escape.

That blue-red-green isn’t a pattern.

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