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Lorenial wrote:

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Jendah: [sneering] I know Lorenial. You mistake chaos for democracy and disorder for freedom. The separatist problem in your country is proof of that. In Angelus, we would have squashed them like the vermin they are. [he leans forward] You want to know what I see in my future? Angelan hegemony over the near systems. All your weak, faithless countries bowing before the might of our unparalleled security apparatus. Reason. Discipline. Pax Angelus. [smiles] That a good enough answer for you, scum?

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Kharzal: [eyeing Lia] Yes, I am aware of you. How gracious of you to attend this meeting.

Sephynne: Our reason for calling upon you is-

Kharzal: [with a gesture, she silences the Prime Minister] We can come to that later. Unfortunately, security protocol dictates that we thoroughly examine the foreign visitor for any hint of ill intent. We wouldn't want these rumors of...foreign interference...to gain any more credence than they already have, would we?

Ligeia: [she steps forward, and the bandages around her head begin to unravel, flowing in the air like the grotesque tendrils of some deep-sea creature. Her thoughts, in contrast to the gentle curiosity demonstrated towards Vitale, strike forward with savage directness into Lia's mind, probing and stabbing into every aspect of her being - while both in the mind's eye and partly in baseline reality, a massive worm, a fanged orifice at its end, seems to rise from Ligeia's neck stump as it emerges from the sands of the unravelling bandages]