He shouldn't like to be part of a failed experiment; he has seen what happens to those rats. But he suspects that taking them through that portal to Horizon where they might gaze on the Singularity and feel its ravenous pull had been a compromise made by a man who had sensed his control slipping. That much High Mage Ambrose had made clear all on his own. Here is why you ought to do as I say for just reasons; here is why you ought to do what I say to preserve your own skin.
Only desperate men, he thinks, employ both carrot and stick at once.
With a dismissive noise, Ralston drops the orange peels into the stone planter beside him. He has a finite appetite for conspiracy when everyone knows the same talking points.
"You're welcome to practice your work here," is punctuated with a flippant gesture to mean to rest of the shadowed courtyard. How very magnanimous.
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He shouldn't like to be part of a failed experiment; he has seen what happens to those rats. But he suspects that taking them through that portal to Horizon where they might gaze on the Singularity and feel its ravenous pull had been a compromise made by a man who had sensed his control slipping. That much High Mage Ambrose had made clear all on his own. Here is why you ought to do as I say for just reasons; here is why you ought to do what I say to preserve your own skin.
Only desperate men, he thinks, employ both carrot and stick at once.
With a dismissive noise, Ralston drops the orange peels into the stone planter beside him. He has a finite appetite for conspiracy when everyone knows the same talking points.
"You're welcome to practice your work here," is punctuated with a flippant gesture to mean to rest of the shadowed courtyard. How very magnanimous.