France, Les Invalides.
Gong Saiyi waited for Severus before the palace where Napoleon's coffin rested.
He had been somewhat nervous at first, but Les Invalides was crowded with visitors during the day, so he relaxed, though he kept anxiously raising his hand to check his watch.
Felix was also scanning the crowd. Then he tugged at Gong Saiyi's sleeve.
"He's here," Felix told Gong Saiyi, pointing in one direction.
Gong Saiyi looked up in the direction Felix indicated and found Severus standing nearby, gazing up at Les Invalides' gilded roof.
"Let's go over," Gong Saiyi told Felix. The two of them walked over to Severus's side and also looked up at the roof gleaming gold beneath the sunlight.
"Is something wrong?" Gong Saiyi asked Severus.
"Have you heard that legend?" Severus asked. "The body brought back from Saint Helena wasn't Napoleon's."
"It's just a legend," Gong Saiyi said dismissively. "Are you planning to open the coffin?"
"How could someone with stomach cancer become obese?" Severus asked.
"I know people with cancer who became obese. It was caused by medication," Felix said.
"Do you think such medicine existed in the nineteenth century?" Severus shot back.
"Do you believe he died of arsenic poisoning?" Gong Saiyi asked.
"Poisoners are usually women, or cowards. Do you think there were people like that on Saint Helena?"
"Not the British?" Gong Saiyi said sarcastically.
"I think people in France were pulling strings behind the scenes. The adviser from France at the War Office played a crucial role. His shooting of the Duke of Enghien actually made people believe one thing even more firmly: he would never allow the Bourbon dynasty to return. Even after he crowned himself emperor, people in France believed it was a new political form he had created, and that he would