Transcript For Strip 2457

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Panel 1
Sergio sets his glass down on the small table
Sergio: So, what do you think of the wine?
Macron: It’s … creditable. You Novo Paolans do know how to live the grand life.
Panel 2
Sergio leans forward, establishing dominance over Macron
Sergio: Okay, let’s get down to business.
Sergio: Why are you defecting? And what do you have to offer us?
Macron: I’m defecting because the woman currently in charge of this project has gone insane.
Panel 3
Sergio and Macron
Sergio: Go on.
Macron: Her seconds are too cowardly to stop her from completely wrecking the Council’s support among the vassal states. You might consider them ‘franchisees.’
Sergio: I understand how your system is structured.
Panel 4
Focus on Macron
Macron: She refuses to admit that without our ‘Rainbow bridge’ affording us egress into the city, we cannot win here.
Macron: She refuses to negotiate a withdrawal. This business of attacking hospitals, for gourd’s sake. It’s madness.
Macron: She has removed the velvet glove revealing the iron fist – except the ‘iron fist’ is remarkably brittle without its covering.

Panel 5
Sergio and Macron
Sergio: ‘Rainbow bridge,’ eh? Your people can certainly wax poetic.
Macron: I don’t understand the technology. Only that it is no longer available to us.
Macron: But as for what I have to offer you ...
Panel 6
Sergio and Macron
Macron: I know where our field headquarters is, where to find Amelia Orme-Colbert.
Macron: If you send in a squad to kill her, the others will stand down.
Macron: I only need the Pillars’ word that we will be permitted to depart.

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