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[The next reply comes after a few minutes, once Genesis has moved up into the Ruby Room where he can remain alone and undisturbed.]

I'm alone now.

[Good. He's taking this seriously. For all the animosity between them, he needed the man's cooperation... and his willingness to listen through some potentially troubling information.]

I will be frank. I cannot forbid you from speaking freely to others, but I would appreciate if this be kept private... on whatever frayed loyalty remains, our pact as SOLDIERs.

There is dissent within the city. Rumblings of rebellion. Serious threats being lodged against the current government. Their hold is more tenuous than it seems. It worries me.

Do you know why exactly it worries me, Genesis?

It'll shake our lives here in Ariel, won't it?

[He's absolutely no stranger to what rebellions do to city or even world order. He certainly is taking this seriously.]

We won't have lives anymore in Ariel, Genesis. If the government collapses, whatever magic is holding us here collapses with it. The aim of the rebellion is not the reform of an untenable system -- it is to return home, to friends and family and loved ones, to conflicts left unresolved and business left unsettled.

So I'll ask you a second question: what do either of us have waiting back home?

[The only correct answer being absolutely nothing.]

Nothing. If Ariel collapses, our lives would end with it, too.

[Genesis knows it all too well. And it's part of why he had been so willing to follow through with everything the city asked of him.]

Then you see my concern.

I will not give up what I've gained now. I would surmise the same holds true for you. There is too much at stake and too much we stand to lose if jarring reform comes to pass. I shall play the villain once again and play it a thousand times over should any fool try to tear my home and my happiness from me.

My final question is thus: will you help me prevent this, or not?

I would. You wouldn't have to ask me twice. I don't want to lose what I've gained here either.

Zack will fall in line. Keep Angeal out of the loop for now. I don't where he might cast his lot and it's too much of a risk telling him.

I'm going to address the network within the next few days on the matter. I am taking a public stance against the issue and I need as much clout as I can get to draw attention.

It stings my pride a bit to admit it, but there's very little I can think of that's a better draw than your own face, Genesis. That is my favor, in return for my services at your club -- I want you with me.

I see.

Someone's put out propaganda against the city recently, too. The rebellion might be picking up. Very well, let me help you with this public stance of yours.

It would seem we're fighting once more together, Genesis. I wonder if the odds will play to our favor this time, working to put down a rebellion instead of causing one. Strange bedfellows, indeed...

I don't need you say anything. In fact, it would be better if you didn't. I only need you seen with me. Subservient. Seductive. Set your ego aside and cater to the crowd. Then we'll call everything square.

And then the true battle begins.

Very well, then. Consider me yours for this occasion.

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