And for a moment, Vrenille looks not okay too--his head drops, and there's a ruefulness to his expression. He's trying not to shake his head, but...he shakes his head.
Of course Ed has no way of knowing that a third option was precisely what he and the people he's closest to here tried to devote themselves to during this war. A third option outside the supposed neutrality of the gang called the "Rubies" who ended up extorting sex in exchange for food.
Ed won't know the hours Vrenille spent scouting, planning, carrying out strikes and raids to try and weaken both Nissen and the Creator's factions, try and make sure that whoever won would be weak, could be forced to accept compromises. And he won't know how in the end, Vrenille was unwittingly betrayed by one of his own Submissives who, playing double agent, had unknowingly undermined his own interests and led the Creator's forces right to the one person he never intended to betray.
A third option is a fine wish, but the reality is, for Vrenille, a bitter pill.
"Petty bureaucracy," he says to answer the question about the government so far, but it's not what he really wants to say.
"Look, I dunno you, and I dunno what you can do. But Ed, I'm gonna tell you this for your own good: you wanna find a third way, that's the long game. You're not the first to think of it; there's plenty of others want the same thing. Only you gotta get yourself secure here first. I dunno what the Creator's gonna do, but you can't change anything if you wind up with a bullet in your head or locked up in the People Zoo."
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Of course Ed has no way of knowing that a third option was precisely what he and the people he's closest to here tried to devote themselves to during this war. A third option outside the supposed neutrality of the gang called the "Rubies" who ended up extorting sex in exchange for food.
Ed won't know the hours Vrenille spent scouting, planning, carrying out strikes and raids to try and weaken both Nissen and the Creator's factions, try and make sure that whoever won would be weak, could be forced to accept compromises. And he won't know how in the end, Vrenille was unwittingly betrayed by one of his own Submissives who, playing double agent, had unknowingly undermined his own interests and led the Creator's forces right to the one person he never intended to betray.
A third option is a fine wish, but the reality is, for Vrenille, a bitter pill.
"Petty bureaucracy," he says to answer the question about the government so far, but it's not what he really wants to say.
"Look, I dunno you, and I dunno what you can do. But Ed, I'm gonna tell you this for your own good: you wanna find a third way, that's the long game. You're not the first to think of it; there's plenty of others want the same thing. Only you gotta get yourself secure here first. I dunno what the Creator's gonna do, but you can't change anything if you wind up with a bullet in your head or locked up in the People Zoo."