Cain stayed silent while Bakura spoke, thoughtful and obviously not interested in interrupting. There was a lot to be said for having someone with an even earlier perspective on culture than Cain himself, and while he understood the ideas of Egyptian thought and religion, he had never really grasped it. By the time he had gotten old enough to truly take it in, the world have moved, changed, and his priorities had been elsewhere.

"Then you'd have the advantage," Cain allowed after a moment. It was weird to admit that. Not that someone knew something better than he did, but that someone knew it better because they had lived it while it was still relevant and that Cain hadn't even had the chance. "Rome was founded just shortly after I was born—" By himself, which he felt no need to mention yet, "—so I never got the opportunity to appreciate it for what it was on its own."