She gave the girl a rather confused look, paying no mind to the beverage the girl was brought even as she sipped at her own after a moment. "... you were serious about the museum earlier, huh?" It wasn't really a question, now, so much as a realization. Mandy smiled a little bit to the other before simply chuckling. "I assure you, I'd probably bore you silly, eventually," she stated with a soft sigh, reaching to put the picture back away.
"Regardless, when it comes to history and archeology in Europe, the Balkans, or the Americas... Feel free to ask. If I don't know, I'm sure I'll be just as pleased to go find the information - and probably even more so to then explain to you. For instance, just a silly piece of knowledge that you should keep in mind if ever you visited Egypt," she wasn't going to use the woman's shadow name, but that seemed like a good seguy, "Asps - the Angelicized version of aspis - are a highly poisonous snake found in the Nile region. Of course, they're more well known in modern times as the Egyptian Cobra, as asps themselves are the more mythological name for them. People seem to think that an asp technically still exists under that name, which is a falsehood, but it's interesting nevertheless.
"In both dynastic and Roman Egypt, asps were considered to be a symbol of royalty, and the venom from the snake was used to grant a more dignified death to certain condemned folks than the typical execution. Cleopatra herself, in fact, is said to have used the bite of an asp towards her suicide. Of course, modern medicine has disproven that, as what was used in fact was a mixture of hemlock, wolfsbane and opium... still, the story has immortalized asps in history."
After a brief pause, Mandy chuckled a little. "Of course, the Asp is also a nine millimetre pistol based on the Smith and Wesson model 39... I suppose it's poisonous in it's own way as well."
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