"...And well said Sir; we are united via our differences."Achille materialised, delivering Jack such a thumping tap on the shoulder, dislocation was only narrowly averted.
"Similarity... well, there lies but one. We are all dreamers ami, all personages seeking to take whatever the stars or sins of men can wilfully provision us with. In that aspect then, we are Gods, pehaps not equal in competence nor eyes of the otner, but, none withstanding, each bearing an acceptable, individualised niche. Put less verbosely; each of us is here because our endgame will passively further that of woman or man jostling for position on either shoulder. Endure it as you will, we are an animal of many minds; each may not reach absolute consensus, but many wits comes rapid reactions. We outwit our competitors, reach the top of the chain, then bear the shadows around us. That fact may seem inexplicable but none-the-less we much digest it as solid gospel, or perhaps the only one of innumerable perplexing reasons which actually fit the barely-explicable actuality of it all..."
"...Yet one may only look inside to find the answer is entirely self-evident. After all, look at me, then look at Autoine, a veritable Romulus to my Remus; ever since our first meet we have never hesitated to place knifes into each other's spinal columns. Yet with every jagged scar, we learn from each other, do we not Carol? We learn, we derive, we grow as people if not humans. The fact is, no matter how much we may try and deny it publicly, we have a use to each other. If we didn't, one of us (not me, assuredly), would be little more than ashes at this present moment. Yet we persist symbiotically".
"...I do hope I wasn't interrupting anything particularly pressing, no? Nothing too profitable, no romantic interludes?"
THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's outlawed trade unions, determined to take the underworld for themselves.)
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