two powerbrokers
Channel: loomhigh
Date: 2021-05-29

Music From: http://computoser.com
transcript:
 He dragged a harsh wooden twig along the metal bars. Abashed with the empty and dissatisfied thud of metal on wood, the man with an insidious grin darted towards the thinking man who was victim to him.
He crouched low.
“You will tell me, without a spare detail, my friend. Where are the keys to power?”

The man opposite him had his eyes darted down as per usual, as if his imprisoned habitation bore no scar on his fantastic reality within. 

“This information cannot be distilled so succinctly. You are talking about years of political history, institutional practice-”

“-which given the sudden shift of time you have on your hands seems more than manageable to explain”

The self-made warden was still squatting, attempting to meet the eyes of the mind-trodden prisoner. Lying on his good side, top half belted with scars designed to defend against the complacency of indenturement, the prisoner kept his eyes down within his thoughts.

“It doesn’t take a lot for you to take on the world, you’re a smart man without morals, why would you need me to tell you how?”

“Because I know you see things like me, you see them for what they are. Those lying and deceitful people in power keep pushing you down. You have learned exactly how they do it, and I need to know. I won’t be pushed down any more.”

“Quite the noble cause…”

There was an uninterrupted silence. The warden contemplated his own confusion at the statement, before settling on a reply.

“Yes, It’s about time those bastards learned their lesson. I will rid the world of those who wronged us, I will take their misused power from them.”

The prisoner looked up at his childhood companion. Friend was always a strong word for this man. To the prisoner the warden was simply a means to alleviate loneliness in a confusing world of relationship and feeling. The warden met his eyes with a clawing eagerness, as if his observations in the Prisoner's blank spherical soul sockets could give him what he desires. This meeting of eyes was only brief before the prisoner, ever considerate of his own cranium, darted his eyes down again. 

“You’re somewhat correct with that assessment I suppose.” he deadpanned
“About us seeing things similarly, anyway.”
“I-”
“But you see, the difference between you and me is that all you see is a cold. The world a trivial disease of dead strangers. I can’t see the people, only the houses and the trees, but the warmth of their presence is something I know. I may not understand it but I see it in every place there. You will always see the cold strangeness. I never could see the cold nor be satisfied with the strangeness.”

The warden frowned the whole time, and upon noticing a paragraph without the correct answer, furiously grabbed at the convicted man’s collar. The creeping reminder that he was alone with this man in an undisclosed location with no life ready to save him hurled itself into the pit of the prisoners stomach, though only briefly before it was clinically dismissed. 

“You are going to die here, mate. Chalk that down as one of your fun fucking facts. I have known you since you were a kid in our village. You always read those fucking book things. You talked to that yeoman girl who crashed here. You know how the system works. I am going to rule the entire goddamn empire and you are going to tell me how.”

“You’re right that my end is here, and that I will tell you what you want to hear,” said the prisoner. “I love this world, all I ever wanted was to explain it to people like you. I can get you as far as the stellarch, but I’m afraid I don’t know how to describe it's wonder to you”
“Show me to the stellarch, then.”
“Very well”

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