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"Understanding ht, however, is how you will help me best As of now, Pliny controlsin his ear Leto is his design, did you know that?" I didn’t "He found the darling boy, kneould win my father’s cold heart because he would remind Father of my dead brother, Claudius So Pliny cultivated him, trained him, and convincedhi into our lives and disrupt Pliny’s plan It took two years to dispatch you, but patiently, he did Just as he did me Now Leto will be my father’s heir, and Pliny will be Leto’s erous Perhaps I never really knew just how dangerous
"So what’s your plan?" I glance around the roo to take back your father’s favor with plebeians and pitchforks?"
"As any Gold with a decent education would know, there’s a certain cris in Lost City A vast criminal enterprise that, if you trace it all the to the tip-top, is under the influence of the office of the Sovereign of our little Society Octavia au Lune ot a fetish for the dirty stuff--assassinations, organizing workers’ strikes in her own ArchGovernors’ do of Lost City is no different
"She and her Furies handpicked the crime family leadership; these three individuals are her creatures But here’s the juicy kink I’ve found certain anization who are … restless"
I frown "They don’t like Lune?"
"She’s an onerous bitch One who has spat in my father’s eye and cozied up to the Bellona But no My champions don’t think on that plane They are lowColors, Darrow They’re restless to be atop the shitpile"
"Why Lost City?" I ask "What does itto help these ambitious lowColorsto kill off a ues the Society: Ares and his Sons"
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I go cold inside "The Sons of Ares? I wasn’t aware they were so dire a threat"
"They’re not yet, but they will be," he says "The Sovereign knows it So does ue to say it aloud The Society has faced terrorist cells before Throw enough lurcher teah But the Sons are different
"They are not a rat biting our heels, but a ter our foundation as quietly as possible till they’ve done such work that our house cruiven Pliny the task of eli He will continue to fail because the Sons of Ares are clever, and becausethe so dreadful to the Society, to the Sovereign, to rinds to a halt, I will step forward and say, ‘I will cure this disease in three weeks’ And then I will, withall the Sons, and with you gloriously beheading Ares himself"