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  1. the man sitting at the table leans back, square tipped black boots arched in the air. He still has that same damn grin. His coat hangs off his chair. "Walker happens to be one of my favorite servants." The Captain says. "I was rather hoping he'd follow my orders though."
  2. Sirocco frowns and crosses his arms.
  3. Skies shoves past Walker, absolutely furious that not only was the man that started this entire thing sitting in front of them, but also that he was acting so non-chelaunt about the man getting arrested in his stead. She slams her palms down on the table, her hood falling back letting her long white hair fall out and her deep blue eyes concentrated...
  4. in a piercing glare...
  5. Flare "Yeeeees?"
  6. he drawls it out, on purpose, like he doesn't expect you to understand the word.
  7. Skies "What the hell?! This man was almost arrested, because he did what you told him to, and you don't even care! You don't even care that you have gotten about one hundred people arrested today, do you?! What was even the purpose of that!? To hurt people? I..." she trails off at a loss for words though her fury hasn't quieted down at all.
  8. Flare "It's all working according to plan. You gotta crack a few eggs and all that." he says, shrugging. Walker doesn't even seem to mind he's being called expendable.
  9. Sirocco frowns more. There were so few left... no Heshim was expendable.
  10. Skies she continues glaring at him, though not before taking a deep breath and exhaling. She knows she can't bring the guards here because Walker would then be implicated and he's suffered enough.
  11. Skies "Innocent people aren't eggs, you ass." She says unable to even pretend to hide her disgust at this man's attitude.
  12. Zeliun Zeliun steps forward at this point, his doubts erased. "I wasn't sure if you were bluffing or not, Skies... You have a lot to answer for, 'Captain', and I'd like some answers, /now/. This little plan of yours had best be the most revolutionary wonderful change I've heard of in months..."
  13. Flare "Tell ya what. You like 'em so much, why don't you do my job for me? There's ognna be a trial for those guys. Most of them are guilty as all get out, but some are innocent. Why don't you come up with a good defense, get 'em off the hook. Then you can save these people you seem to care about, and I don't have to lift a damn finger to prove the Realm's full of it and needs to go."
  14. "Or hey, stage a break out. Prove the Realm can't protect it's people. I relaly don't give an ounce what you do, other then the fact I expected Walker to be in jail and now he's not."
  15. Sirocco "How was his being in jail supposed to damage the Realm?"
  16. Flare "...You ain't too bright, are you?"
  17. Sirocco "Humor me."
  18. Flare "I just outlined it. If he's in jail, despite the fact he through nothing, he's been wrongfully accused. This means he's innocent. If he is then proven that he did nothing wrong, not only does the Realm's investigation look incompetent, they look like power hungry asses."
  19. "when he gets off the hook, he is then able to become a useful symbol of a wrongfully accused man."
  20. Skies "Or they could have killed him quietly, claiming he was a chief agent of the Captain," Skies says through her teeth.
  21. Sirocco "Do you really think the trial would have been fair? You hit a Dragonborn with a tomato in front of hundreds of people. They would have sentenced him before it even started."
  22. Flare "That's why there's a lot of them being arrested."
  23. "Hey, I didn't throw the tomato."
  24. "And it still doesn't help the situation. Think about it." He said, tapping his forehead. "50% off merchant stalls made a riot. What will a hundred executions with no trial or evidence do?"
  25. Skies "I didn't say 100, just one. They execute him as a scape goat and put the rest into labor intensive jobs that appear to be reasonable on the outside."
  26. Zeliun "And if the trial is staged and the evidence forged? False witnesses bribed into testimony? What then?"
  27. Sirocco shakes his head.
  28. Flare "Then you ferret out the false evidence. Obviously."
  29. "As for labor intensive jobs, Eyewitness accounts, statements from the workers, things such as that. Nah, that might be as bad as flat out killing them."
  30. Skies suddenly realizes she was yelling very loudly just a minute ago. She quickly peaks outside to make sure no attention was drawn to the hole in the wall before turning back to The Captain, "You underestimate how influential the realm is," she says with a hint of sadness in her voice.
  31. Flare "Eh. You work from the bottom. That's why I picked here. Lots of trouble going on."
  32. Sirocco "And how much they really don't care about mortals."
  33. Skies "People," she corrects Sirocco
  34. Flare "Who cares if they don't care about hte mortals, the Mortals care about the Mortals."
  35. Skies slaps The Captain.
  36. Flare The slap actually connects to the man, sending his chair toppling to the floor. For an instant, it looks like he's just floating in mid air, attached to the table by his feet, about to fall. Then with rapid motions, he lands on his feet, somehow. He's standing now, but what had been a relaxed look is dreadfully serious. Skies' slap hit his wrist. "Wow." He muttered. "Not bad."
  37. He does not look smug anymore
  38. Sirocco narrows his eyes. That was very... impressive.
  39. Flare "Now. Get out of my house before I throw you out."
  40. Skies is some what taken aback by his sudden... floaty-ness.
  41. Zeliun fails to come up with a proper addition to that bit of indignant rage, and feels slightly inadequate.
  42. Flare "...I said out. You can come back tomorrow when you've cooled down. I don't deal with hot heads."
  43. Sirocco "You're not an average person are you..." Sirocco shrugs. "Walker, I would speak to you later. It would be good to speak to another Heshim. And I have important news for you."
  44. Sirocco turns around and leaves.
  45. Flare Walker seems to be rather taken aback at everything that just happened. "...ahh...right." he mumbles out
  46. Zeliun eyetwitches. "It doesn't matter if the Realm leaves this place if they fall into worse hands. Remember that." He then exits with Sirocco.
  47. Skies she stares at him for a moment, regret reflecting across her eyes as she realizes she screwed up Sirocco's chance to talk with Walker, before quietly turning and leaving pausing only at the door to say "You're lucky that Walker is here or I wouldn't hesitate to report you. At least the guards pretend to care about the people they protect."
  48. slams the door on exit.
  49. Flare "You'll be back. 'Cause Walker ain't leavin." he yells at the shut door
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