Antonio+Grim+Sr.

Clever, pragmatic and coldly ambitious, Antonio Grim, Sr. believed in ends and any means necessary to achieve those ends. Only once did he lose his mind. To a woman who shone like the sun. It nearly destroyed him.

But old age makes fools of us all. And more and more often, his feet take him back to the portrait he'd commissioned so long ago of the face who haunted his nights even now. He thinks, perhaps, grandchildren would be nice. And forgiveness...possible. And he laughs, mocking his own delusions.

And he thinks of his children. Clever Antonio so like himself. Sweet Antonia...so like his Cosima. So brave. So foolishly dedicated. Shining like the sun... Perhaps...Antonia's faith alone is enough for both of them. Salvation by association.