"Any world," he says, teeth gritted, "with more Fiore DeRosas in it I would consider to be a worse one, yes. The one was too many. The realization of how closely I resembled him, frankly, was most unpleasant."
He pauses. "You're fighting over the genre of the next cycle," he says. "Whether it's an epic, a tragedy, a comedy." He tips his glass at Psyche at that last, using comedy in the traditional sense, a story that ends in a wedding. "With us as your knights - that part, I understood."
He thinks. "And how are these battles waged? One tale at a time?"
"Mmhm," she says. "We find a set of circumstances that could go either way and plop you down, hoping that you'll tilt the scales in one direction or another. Sometimes you end up possessing people who're already there--it's just part of the game, you know? You go to the people who you've got things in common with."
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He pauses. "You're fighting over the genre of the next cycle," he says. "Whether it's an epic, a tragedy, a comedy." He tips his glass at Psyche at that last, using comedy in the traditional sense, a story that ends in a wedding. "With us as your knights - that part, I understood."
He thinks. "And how are these battles waged? One tale at a time?"
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