Bennett: With all due respect, Ms. Walker . . . either you’re unfamiliar with my politics, or you are deliberately making a mockery of them. A proud conservative would never ask the government to subject sapient creatures to potential torture for the sake of experiments. Not even the wishy-washy science-loving types among us would put up with that! That sort of disgraceful, unregulated conduct –
– should be left in the capable hands of the free market! I never propose additional government spending on anything, this included! After all, what was this great nation built on, if not the power of business to act without fear of government strangling –
Walker: Okay, you’ve swayed me!
Bennett: . . . Really?
Walker: Yes, most definitely. I look forward to a bill that puts those rights where they belong — in the hands of private enterprise.
(Labels for Walker: Big Business Owner; Experiments On Beings)
Bennett: . . . Oh. Yes, you would, wouldn’t you.
. . . Not that it matters to me, but doesn’t it bother you at all to say things like this? With your Being right next to you?
Walker’s Being: Why should it? It isn’t as if my Master is going to break the law. Or do anything else to put me in danger.
Oh man, the arrows pointing to Walker made me giggle like crazy. Nice going, Bennett.
*Headdesk* Walker, you continue to amaze.
[Patriotic music swells]
Nice save, Bennett! If companies want to experiment on Beings (“For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead”) let them work it out with the Masters.
“Or do anything else to put me in danger?”
So what has Walker done that has put Tiger in danger? Or my second reading, nice dig at Bennett, who can’t get Cybele out of danger.
Bennett may have the big mouth, but it seems to me that Walker has the biggest plans — and is the more dangerous of the two.
Ann’s outmaneuvering has been a very fun read, can’t wait to see how she’s intending to hold him to this. If it were me I suppose I’d default to hidden recorder, but I bet she’s got a more elegant way.
Walker’s looking to be the dangerous one now… Bennett appears to be just a father who believes in hard discipline–not that it’s necessarily a good or justifiable thing, but he’s not as heartless as I’d thought.
for an instant there he had a conciouse LoL
Shame his politician sense kicked in, although that may have been an open mouth insert whole leg moment in regards to being suspicious.
Bahahahahaha. It’s just a buffet of mixed questionable morals in this office.