XZeke: Gracias.
Elroy: No problem mister.
Zeke: Ana?
Ana: What.
Zeke: Why does that boy flinch when I make sudden movements?
Ana: No idea.
Zeke: ... You never change.
Ana: What reason has the world give me to change? With the election in two days, an' the Oppies set to take half a dozen more wards.
Zeke: Which ones are they?
Ana: The ones backed by the fucking fraternity, is who! Hateful little bastards can't stand to see anyone different, 'cause different might be better, and better'n them just ain't right.
Zeke: Ah, c'mon, Ana, you know they just redrew the ward lines so's to win. They do it all the time.
Ana: An' keep us down how they please. You know the Greenwharves is split over eight wards now? Saints forbid the Greens get so much as one ward. Saints forbid they get a ghost of a chance to fight back....
Zeke: Ana, you ain't set foot in the Wharves in twenty year, an' likely the Mask would hang you if you did. An' you still follow this stuff? Why do you care?
Ana: ... I can't have you around for a month or more. I'll break your fool head. Why don't you mooch off Fausto for a change? Seem he pickin' up Sal's habit for strays anyhow.
Zeke: Ah, don't be like that, Chief. I never meant to rile you. I'll behave. No more talkin' politics.
Ana: Well, if you don't mean to rile me... Tell me, Zeke. How long can you go without talkin' at all?
Zeke: ... So how is ol' Fausto anyway?
Elroy: No problem mister.
Zeke: Ana?
Ana: What.
Zeke: Why does that boy flinch when I make sudden movements?
Ana: No idea.
Zeke: ... You never change.
Ana: What reason has the world give me to change? With the election in two days, an' the Oppies set to take half a dozen more wards.
Zeke: Which ones are they?
Ana: The ones backed by the fucking fraternity, is who! Hateful little bastards can't stand to see anyone different, 'cause different might be better, and better'n them just ain't right.
Zeke: Ah, c'mon, Ana, you know they just redrew the ward lines so's to win. They do it all the time.
Ana: An' keep us down how they please. You know the Greenwharves is split over eight wards now? Saints forbid the Greens get so much as one ward. Saints forbid they get a ghost of a chance to fight back....
Zeke: Ana, you ain't set foot in the Wharves in twenty year, an' likely the Mask would hang you if you did. An' you still follow this stuff? Why do you care?
Ana: ... I can't have you around for a month or more. I'll break your fool head. Why don't you mooch off Fausto for a change? Seem he pickin' up Sal's habit for strays anyhow.
Zeke: Ah, don't be like that, Chief. I never meant to rile you. I'll behave. No more talkin' politics.
Ana: Well, if you don't mean to rile me... Tell me, Zeke. How long can you go without talkin' at all?
Zeke: ... So how is ol' Fausto anyway?
When last we saw.... Ana - Zeke - Elroy
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Oppies: The New Opportunities Party, also referred to as the Opportunists by their rivals. Originally an egalitarian party with working-class ties, they have been swinging more and more towards the rhetoric of the Fraternity, whose dislike of both the blueblood upper class and the lower-class Sunlanders makes a potent and vote-drawing combination. They're not one of the half-dozen political parties which make up the major Assembly coalitions, however, which even Zeke would probably recognize.
'Redraw the ward lines': the contemporary term is 'gerrymandering', and it's common enough that jokes about having to register ward residency three times in between elections are considered rather passe.
And for those of you not yet bored silly, some reminders of what the Greenwharves and the Mask are referring to.
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