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Your sister’s new office matches her mind state. Half-formed, rough, on edge.
Agana: Where were you! I needed you!
“I was campaigning. You’re the Axeholder.”
Agana: For the next few months. Anything I could do to help them Norodom would undo at once. And they know it. This city needed its next Axeholder, it needed you.
You take a moment to process .
“Where is she?”
Agana: The moment the protests heated up , she conveniently went to campaign with the Illa.
“I’m taking the lead and she knows it.”
Agana: So take the lead now. Like you did in Ahido.
“This can’t be unilateral. I made some inroads with the Nupuri. I brought their Ratu Adil here.
Agana: You found them?!
“If your peacekeepers got to Kaori before I did, what would have happened?
Agana: If your followers wanted you to take the ax by force, what would happen?
She sees your face turn and frowns.
Agana: I’m sorry, this job, its killing me. Killing us. Like it did mom. The Dreamddor told me I couldn't be the Axeholder and Agana. I’m ready to have Agana take over.
“We’ll have to give the Ax one last run. I think we can work out a deal. A council. A meeting to address all grievances in the city.”
Agana: The Illa don’t give a damn, you’d just be juggling the Labor Tribes against Nordom and Wiji.
“I have Wiji under control.”
Agana: What exactly did you do in Ahido?
“What I had to. The same as we’re doing now.”
The two of you sit in silence in hard bamboo chairs. For a moment the politics and chaos melts away and you’re just Aggy and Lonny, sharing the pain.
Agana: A council it is then. I expect Kaori will be there. Two Ratu Adil’s is sure to be wild.
As you go for the door one question lingers.
“When you sent the runner, they didn’t tell me why you needed me. Why not.”
Agana: When you take this ax, and I hope you do. First lesson, there are enemies everywhere.
She leaves her office and you follow her once again, into the great unknown.
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To be continued in Nationquest IV: WORLD OF TOMORROW!
