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Your enemies are so close to you they can hear you breathing, let along talking.

Asked as if the question scared him.

Better for everyone that you just take him at his word. The alternative... well, there's a recently vacated room at the bottom of a silo, if you're interested.

You have more pressing things to worry about than this. Better for the assignment that you just believe him and move on.

His yellow plastic visor sears in the sunlight.

Inside the Containment Vessel, the entity protests. You have brought along the Small Controller.

Do not tell him.

Inside the Entity Containment Vessel, a mass stirs.

Oh god, he's wearing merch in-theatre.

Nothing can be missed if nothing is lost.

Something about this number strikes you as undeniable truth.

Give him some space, he's getting somewhere.

The answer comes to you in the moment -- he's always been a frustrated poet first, spy second.

Sinking into quicksand thought.

Front line. Human shield. Bullet bag.

Together in-theatre again -- the sweet slosh of nostalgia in the flooded basement of your brain.

No point in lying. Just play it Way Above His Station. Which it is.

DO NOT TREMBLE, CLASS COMRADE. THE WORDS ARE DESIGNED TO INTIMIDATE. THERE IS NOTHING BEHIND THEM.

Here it is -- the best feeling in the world. The moment before you steal a secret.

The son, prematurely aged. The father, embalmed in ageless maturity.

There are other currencies. Sex. Death. Information.

THESE -- THE WRETCHES BORN SO CLOSE TO THE DEATHBED OF CAPITALISM THAT THEY HAVE COME FULL CIRCLE AND BECOME NUMB TO ITS DECAY -- THESE WE CAN SAVE.

A belt hangs off the railing, the area is cordoned off.

He still sweeps up there, though.

'Modern' in this context doesn't mean 'new'. It refers to an old future, as obsolete as the buildings that represent it.

He's never met a diplomat in his life. Probably doesn't even know what they are, except they sound important.

The state of the Housing Campaign and the state of his life are one and the same.

Man-alley symbiosis, neither doing great.

He is trying to fend off entropy with a dustpan and brush.

Degeneracy everywhere. Thinning bloodstream. Weakness upon weakness.

An insanely subsidised economy of illusions.

Cities made of playing cards.

The broom does not gaze back.

He sweeps his broom a couple times. A tic that sets the world back in order.

No dreams of peace, justice or equality -- only those of a well-oiled machine.

This is only a philosophical conversation for one of you.

Interesting chimeras do proliferate after the End of History.

'Their own' tasks, which is your case are the diametric opposite of sweeping, operant.

Not sarcasm. He's clearly proud of the depressing surroundings you find yourself in.

Obviously expensive, though the stickiness is probably not part of the original design.

Plastic threads show signs of stretching before having snapped. Effort was needed to achieve this.

The stink of chlorine and guilt.

Unhappy to be stuck down here, on the street, when there is action elsewhere.

Not bootlegs or knock-offs, but the genuine article.

DOESN'T THEIR PRIDE IN THEIR AUTHORITARIAN HERITAGE SICKEN YOU? DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU QUAKE WITH IMPOTENT RAGE?

No one's confronted them about it so far.

The few members of the Illuminated Empire allowed to expatriate find themselves in high demand throughout the Developed World as mercenaries and bodyguards.

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