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	'''Advisor Marone:''' For the first time in years, veto is on the table. I imagine you will respect it a great deal more than Barozzo ever did. I hope so with my entire being. I think you need to reassess your priorities.		'''Advisor Marone:''' For the first time in years, veto is on the table. I imagine you will respect it a great deal more than Barozzo ever did. I hope so with my entire being. I think you need to reassess your priorities.

	Dux: Bartolomeo, I've told you, look at the reports. We are doing well, within a few years...		'''Dux Moretti:''' Bartolomeo, I've told you, look at the reports. We are doing well, within a few years...

	'''Advisor Marone:''' You won't have a few years!		'''Advisor Marone:''' You won't have a few years!

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{{textbox|quote='''Setting:''' ''Piazza Rossa in Padeno. Advisor Bartolomeo Marone, representing the city-province of Lorma, stands waiting in front of the Miglio Palace flanked by two military guards, dressed in tailed-blue jackets. The Palace doors swing open, and Dux Giulio Moretti walks outside. The guards salute. The two politicians walk in step.''
'''Dux Moretti:''' Good evening, Bartolomeo.

'''Advisor Marone:''' It is quite pleasant. What has work been like in the office lately?

'''Dux Moretti:''' About as pleasant as balancing a tightrope. I believe you can imagine. You've certainly contributed to it.

'''Advisor Marone:''' I am merely here to represent my constituents, as are you. Besides, I imagine you have already gotten used to my mild opposition. It is everyone else who is new.

'''Dux Moretti:''' I cannot say you are wrong.

(''The group walks by an Utlian bar.'')

'''Advisor Marone:''' It's gotten you stressed. Let us sit down, discuss in peace. I've heard wonders about Utlian brew.

(''The Dux nods.'')

'''Advisor Marone:''' (''To the inside of the bar.'') A private booth for two, please! The Dux of La Rossa visits.

(''The Dux sighs.'')

'''Advisor Marone:''' (''Smiling.'') You should learn to act like a man who sits on the throne. It's like you yearn to sit in some bureaucratic hole.

(''The men walk into a private booth at the end of the bar. The door is closed behind them, after the Advisor orders two coffees for the table. The guards stand in front of the room.'')

'''Advisor Marone:''' I hear it's quite good. I do not know what we should do with ourselves were it not for foreign cuisine.

'''Dux Moretti:''' I suppose it shall do us fine.

'''Advisor Marone:''' Well, Giulio, what do you see ahead?

'''Dux Moretti:''' What am I supposed to see? The reports, while not excellent, indicate recovery. Jobs are growing. People are growing richer. We are on a good path overall.

'''Advisor Marone:''' A look at the election this year would not have told me the same story.

'''Dux Moretti:''' The seats in Buglio and Mineria were always on loose footing. Isola hasn't held them since... Well, since I was last in power, well over two octades ago.

(''The door opens. A waitress sets two small cups of dark brown brews onto the table.'')

'''Advisor Marone:''' (''Picking up a cup.'') Thank you.

(''The door closes.'')

And what of Tolia?

'''Dux Moretti:''' What of it? It is still in the hands of Isola.

'''Advisor Marone:''' Yes, but it is not your Isola. It is as if you've forgotten what foundations you've built on. She, Tritone, she is a follower of the old guard.

'''Dux Moretti:''' I far outrank her in seniority, if that is what you are concerned about. I have been Dux an octade before Isola meant anything. Before the Opening, even.

'''Advisor Marone:''' With due respect, Giulio, you were there to give burial to the Denunzians. You're the last vestige of something that no longer exists. Isola is not the same beast. It grew of its own.

(''Marone takes a sip. The Dux hasn't yet touched his cup.'')

'''Dux Moretti:''' She is of Tolia. Since Falcone, that place has been a well of radicalism. The rest of the party still falls in line.

'''Advisor Marone:''' What rest of the party, Giulio? Costa? Maybe he'll hold on in Salino, but good luck with anything beyond that. He's the last one of my appointees that is still standing. The rest have long fallen to their opposition, Tolia among the first.

'''Advisor Marone:''' Look, take some of it. (''He nudges the cup.'') I understand you are doing your best at keeping things together, but I don't think you understand the situation you're in.

(''The Dux presses his fingers against the cup, but does not pick it up.'')

'''Advisor Marone:''' You are an economist. I believe you can muster a little math. Mineria and Buglio make two...

(''The Dux presses the cup tighter.'')

'''Advisor Marone:''' With Tolia no longer on your side, that makes three...

'''Dux Moretti:''' And?

'''Advisor Marone:''' And I make four.

'''Dux Moretti:''' Look, Bartolomeo...

'''Advisor Marone:''' For the first time in years, veto is on the table. I imagine you will respect it a great deal more than Barozzo ever did. I hope so with my entire being. I think you need to reassess your priorities.
Dux: Bartolomeo, I've told you, look at the reports. We are doing well, within a few years...

'''Advisor Marone:''' You won't have a few years!

(''Dux Moretti's glasses clumsily slip off his nose, one handle briedly dipping into the coffee. He picks them up in silence, wiping them off beforehand.'')

'''Advisor Marone:''' Those interbred bastards from the Families are not backing down. Giulio, I've worked with them, I know them. Behind closed doors, they're as ruthless as sharks, and now they smell blood.

'''Dux Moretti:''' We have been doing much to weaken them. Their companies are in government hands, their old collaborating members have been prosecuted and found guilty.

'''Advisor Marone:''' Well, simply put, you haven't done enough. They are back, and out to take back control. Barozzo has changed the way Mare looks at politics. Nothing's off the table for them. Just last week, Buonfico was talking of pardons and policy reversals. We should not fight with one hand tied behind our backs while they threaten the fabric of our Republic.

(''The Dux sits in silence for a brief minute. Advisor Marone leans back, and takes another sip.'')

'''Dux Moretti:''' I know you will not approve, but it is the best you will receive of me. Veto this, and we will all be sons of dogs.

(''Marone listens attentively.'')

'''Dux Moretti:''' I will hand over their companies and factories to their workers. We will back off our government-appointed boards. In their place we'll create company shares, and distribute them among the lower ranks. Let them decide how their company money should be allocated, and leave the Families with nothing. Their power will be taken away in a way that is hopefully more lasting than the biggest hopes of La Denunzia.

'''Advisor Marone:'''(''Sigh.'') And what if they back off their investments? What if foreign investors become scared the same fate awaits them? You have been playing a dangerous game with the reallocation of property, and I am not certain you're aware of the risks.

'''Dux Moretti:''' If they back off, we shall force them to invest. Any solution surrounding the Families is bound to be ugly. At least, this way, their fates will be left in the hands of populace. Ours will be washed clean, to some degree. It is easy to put the blame on one man, it is exponentially more difficult to do so with millions of them.

'''Advisor Marone:''' I am unsure, Giulio.

'''Dux Moretti:''' Even uncertainty is better than a firm no. (Dux Moretti finally takes a sip.)

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