“My problem,” I chose my words carefully, “Is it sounds too good to be true. What if it doesn’t work out? What if we wind up miserable, or if he screws us, or if he isn’t as good as he thinks he’ll be? Do we walk away? Will we be able to?”
All you can ever do is try, so you do need to be prepared for the possibility of failure.
Icarus wasn’t, and that’s the real reason he died.
“I got away from my dad,” Alec said. “Would it be so hard to get away from Coil?”
I didn’t have a good answer to that.
I suppose that’s one way of looking at it.
And hey, the Undersiders are the masters of the getaway and all…
“I guess we don’t know enough about him or the resources he’s got at his disposal to say.”
“I do have my reservations,” Brian spoke, “But I get the impression Coil’s going ahead with this regardless of whether we’re in or not. I’d rather be in on this than sitting on the sidelines, watching it happen.”
Yeah, that’s a pretty good point, one that might be what would get me in on this. If the Undersiders stay out, nothing changes for their status quo in the short term, but what about when Coil is in charge of the city?
“Yeah,” I agreed, “I think that right now, what we stand to gain by saying ‘yes’, and being right, far outweighs what we stand to lose.”
“So, who’s for the deal, then?” Lisa asked us.
Aye!
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