With a smile that still has ghosts in it, "It was a long time ago."
Xel is, from what he's gleaned from Cesare and Iago, fairly sure that he wouldn't have assumed a different path would be a worse one without hearing anything about it, but Cesare is hedging. "Sou desu ne... Saa, has Borgia-kun decided yet what he'd like to have?" he smiles, eyes falling to the empty plate.