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“So what’s his deal?” Magnus asked Aiko who was sipping her beer and frankly wincing at the taste. A desire to be allowed adult beverages didn’t necessarily translate as a taste for them.
“Oh, he wants to be in charge of the city. Thinks he’s ‘the biggest and the strongest’ that kind of thing.
“Well he might be, decked the ogre with one punch” Magnus said with a bit of awe.
“Yeah, claims he’s the son of a titan. Might actually be for all I know. He wanted to challenge the Rakshasa who ran the city. Never did though.”
“Why not? Afraid he wouldn’t win?”
“That one? He’s not smart enough to be afraid. Just whenever he got stirred up enough Singh, that was his name, would find a distraction for him, you know a little war, or a new girl, or a monster truck rally. I think by the fourth or fifth time he didn’t really even want to take charge anymore, he was just making noises to get a new toy.”
“And now?”
“Well the new guy took charge, which has to upset his pride, since he figured he had dibs. And of course the parade of new toys has stopped.”
“Interesting. You think it’s a challenge or that the new president just doesn’t have even a rudimentary sense of diplomacy.”
