05-06-2016, 10:55 AM
Marcus caught snippits of the two men's conversation and couldn't help but smile. Scion Marveet. Sounded like he was in a bit of trouble. Marcus held no affection for the man.
His memory of Scion's deliberate snubbing during his dinner with Elouera returned to him. It had seemed so pathetic the way the man went out of his way to do it. Marcil indeed.
Well the man was rich and connected and likely this 'scandal' would touch him only peripherally. It was not as if it was a surprise that the man, and those many levels under him, would have questionable activities. Capitalism was not noble. It was pragmatic. It was the purest expression of evolution. The survival of the species. What could be gotten away with would be gotten away with.
There was a simplicity and predictability to it that could be accounted for. Likely, the Consulate in charge of finance factored corruption into their projections, a bleeder valve and lubricator that allowed the economy and those who led it to maximize their efficiency.
Still, the man on the bench snickered. Marcus couldn't help but laugh to himself. "Indeed."
His memory of Scion's deliberate snubbing during his dinner with Elouera returned to him. It had seemed so pathetic the way the man went out of his way to do it. Marcil indeed.
Well the man was rich and connected and likely this 'scandal' would touch him only peripherally. It was not as if it was a surprise that the man, and those many levels under him, would have questionable activities. Capitalism was not noble. It was pragmatic. It was the purest expression of evolution. The survival of the species. What could be gotten away with would be gotten away with.
There was a simplicity and predictability to it that could be accounted for. Likely, the Consulate in charge of finance factored corruption into their projections, a bleeder valve and lubricator that allowed the economy and those who led it to maximize their efficiency.
Still, the man on the bench snickered. Marcus couldn't help but laugh to himself. "Indeed."