"So its like this these guys approached me about the tyranny we live in." We had started moving again, the dust storm was still going on, but it had lessened enough for me to feel safe I wouldn't die (after the Princes revelation well I wasn't that fond of him surviving anymore).
"We live in an empire my liege, by default its kind of a tyranny, you're freaking royalty yourself." Leland was thankfully keeping quiet because only one of us should be an asshole to someone who we just risked our lives to doom ourselves over.
"The Emperor is insane Trezlan! He's demanding higher taxes and building roads and rail stations! Don't you understand he's connecting the empire so he can demand even higher taxes!"
"You were convinced to go against the royalty that supports you, because your subjects paid higher taxes to fund things that benefit them?" If I wasn't using my hand to keep a torn piece of cloth across my mouth so I wasn't literally eating dust I'd have been rubbing my forehead so hard SO HARD!
"That's how tyranny starts Trezlan, first it seems like things you want, or is actually things you want, and then suddenly everything you have is a result of the government allowing you to have it."
"You're a member of the Royalty! Of course everything you have is a result of the government you idiot." I couldn't hold it in, it was so stupid he was giving me a head ache.
"This isn't about me Trezlan, they've already wrapped me in their tyrannical tendrils, no this is about my subjects, they are the ones who are at risk, thats what this group told me." I knew he was easy to bend to one side, but this madness was beyond just suicidal, it was amazingly dumb. I hope I don't have to explain to you how stupid these thoughts are gentle reader of my diary, because if I do STOP READING NOW!
"I didn't even think about that my liege, are your patriots still free?"
"Yes I believe they are, when you two showed up I thought you were them coming to save me." A plan was forming in my mind already.
"Excellent, ok well if we are going to overthrow the government we'll have to do this right my liege, an actual plan and execution, I have some contacts we can utilize. Soon enough we'll give this country the government it really deserves!"
"Fantastic Trezlan."
"Excuse me while I discuss with my associate here about getting his people to arrange for our plan."
"Of course, don't want to hurt your operation in case I get caught again." The Prince strode forward like a general just told of a new victory, I leaned down to Leland and even though I couldn't see his face, I knew he was smiling.
"You are going to betray him and his group of idiots to buy yourself out of being a traitor aren't you?"
"Exactly."
"Good, because if you weren't I toally was."
"I'd expect nothing less of you Leland." And thus our plan to stop being traitors was back on track, after we betrayed someone we had just saved to betray. Look it was kind of complicated, but like all of my plans, there was a plan within a plan that had its own plan that liked the word plan. I'm clever like that.
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