"It'd float." In the hands of asura, it would all float. And probably the less said about the possibility of asura being here the better. Moving on.

It's true though, what Sesyria says: the Up housing, at least, does not leak. "Yeah, well, can't say the same for where they put the Submissives in the Down. It'll shock you when you see it, if you haven't already. I mean it wouldn't 've been the worst place I'd ever lived, if they put me there, but...y'know," he's lived some pretty awful places, "it'd be close.

"It's the way this place manages to work: give the Submissives nothing so they need the Dominants, 'cause the Dominants are the ones with the money, the privilege. I won't say the power, 'cause we're just as stuck in this whole damn meat grinder as they are, but we don't gotta suffer half as much for no damn reason."