[Joseph needs to stop that. It's a very nice face and Monty would be grieved to see it ruined.]
I think the only way we'll have a 'cohesive society' here, detective, is if someone steps up to take control. You've said you won't. I doubt Detective Castellanos would want to, and I think we both know why I might be a poor choice. There are other people I can think of who would like the power, but should not have it. And several who would make good with it, but who are not well known, nor the sort to step forward without some great and immediate threat cast against us.
We don't need one all-powerful leader. We need a collaborative group in which everyone has a voice. We need rules that people can agree on and a way to enforce them.
What we have to work with is a group of randomly assembled individuals, a portion of whom get insulted if you look at them funny and who come from places where decapitation is an acceptable response to an insult. That won't change if someone tries to take charge.
Perhaps this is the place I ought to mention that I am a subject of His Royal Highness King Edward's realm. One may have a monarch and a parliament together. The monarch is needed to establish the parliament in the first place, though.
Politics are to one side, though. I'll take care of Renart in what ways I can, detective, I would beg your creativity to imagine life as an officer with Mr. Merlyn.
[Else he really will have to try throwing himself at the other man's feet again. Or devising some method to murder him. Permanently.]
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And here people snap at us for not having organized all these different people into one cohesive society.
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I think the only way we'll have a 'cohesive society' here, detective, is if someone steps up to take control. You've said you won't. I doubt Detective Castellanos would want to, and I think we both know why I might be a poor choice. There are other people I can think of who would like the power, but should not have it. And several who would make good with it, but who are not well known, nor the sort to step forward without some great and immediate threat cast against us.
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What we have to work with is a group of randomly assembled individuals, a portion of whom get insulted if you look at them funny and who come from places where decapitation is an acceptable response to an insult. That won't change if someone tries to take charge.
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Politics are to one side, though. I'll take care of Renart in what ways I can, detective, I would beg your creativity to imagine life as an officer with Mr. Merlyn.
[Else he really will have to try throwing himself at the other man's feet again. Or devising some method to murder him. Permanently.]