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“Ha! The Peace won’t last It never lasts Golds can’t handle conditional victory They simply must have it all”

“Vox Populi ht pass it without the Golds”

“And how do you know that?”

I shrug, knowing I’ve said too s”

He exa peace with the slavers?”

I consider it, relieved he didn’t ask where I’ve heard these “things” “I don’t know”

“I’m sure you’d know if it bothers you”

“That senator…Dancer O’Faran He was the one who freed my mine”

He whistles “That’s so”

I nod “Took me a while to remember But if you sa he looked at us…He just wants to n thinks about is her personal score—finishing things with the Ash Lord And the set left behind She hasn’t even been to Mars in six years, and the place is a…quagmire”

He smiles at the word “And what about the Reaper?”

“I don’t know” I shrug, drunk and wanting to talk about so else “It’s like he’s one of them now”

“A Gold”

I nod, thinking ofif I should tell Philippe about theht “I just want it to end,” I say “Just want that life ere all promised”

“Don’t we all Ah, the oysters!”