Guan Yao sipped her vintage Lafite, watching the Swiss snow-capped mountains gliding past the window shimmer in sync with the armor of the figures in the paintings. Suddenly, she thought of the girl in Paris who had signed up for the modeling club because of her—at this moment, perhaps someone else, too, was touching the warmth of history for the very first time thanks to this moving art train.
As night fell, the train pulled into the Florence station.
Eight armed security guards escorted Guan Yao into the underground vault of the Uffizi Gallery. With three different keys, the curator unlocked the safe and carefully lifted out Leonardo da Vinci's manuscript of the *Treatise on Painting*.
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