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[personal profile] redsoil 2025-11-23 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
What about to help me obtain a business license? Would you have enough for that?

[ Not that he doesn't have his own efforts, and passive income from Silco.

What's more important than finances is the support of Augmented and Karterians alike, bolstering his attempt at vying for power, prestige, access to the government and its rank and file. Others can dilly-dally with the lesser classes, but Set will aim for the people with power and security β€” an unpopular option, but one that he feels would be dangerous not to approach. He hasn't the ego of do-gooders and heroic-types, who would wrinkle their nose and refuse, he's an opportunistic bastard. ]


They are enhancing their ability to control even you and I, Aodh. [ He drapes his fingers down, brushing along the spot on the dragon's neck where he thinks his Augmenter might reside. ] They are fine-tuning it, where brute force fails, they rely on trickery. I will rip this thing from my throat and die before I break my vow to my people, but I would rather rip their throats out long before I reach that point.

[ Leaning down, he snags one of the gold coins and holds it up between them with a wry smile. ]

I think it will be fun, to rise to a challenge such as this. It seems dire, but it is not insurmountable. And I do not lose. Losing means I could not find you your mate, after all!