Bell Swan Ω "Shell Bell" (
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My alternates tend to take over the world. Advice available. Rates negotiable.
Shell Bell puts up her sign and nibbles her most recent charity meal. Not potatoes! It is not potatoes. Or fish or clams. It is rice and curry and a fruity yogurt drink. That nice person told Bar she could use his tab for four meals, and this is meal number two.
Shell Bell puts up her sign and nibbles her most recent charity meal. Not potatoes! It is not potatoes. Or fish or clams. It is rice and curry and a fruity yogurt drink. That nice person told Bar she could use his tab for four meals, and this is meal number two.
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He catches sight of her sign, pauses, considers it, and turns to ask her:
"Deliberately or accidentally?"
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He resumes his more ordinary voice. "I think the best way to explain how I treat my continent would be to tell the story of how I came to acquire it."
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She puts her sign down. "I'm all ears."
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He pauses, smiling sadly.
"The advantages were immediately obvious. Anyone in my domain can address me by name and be heard, at any time; and I am inclined to listen. Mortal kings don't have the means or the attention span to hear and understand every issue facing their kingdoms, and ordinary gods don't have the breadth of authority to undertake public works projects like raising aqueducts even though they have the power to divert rivers into them, and neither sort seems much inclined to care about the actual welfare of their people as long as their own interests are secure. But in my domain and kingdom, I could hear that a city needed more water, commission the aqueduct, divert the river, and watch to make sure it all went smoothly. Much more convenient for everyone involved. I became very popular."
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"You keep saying 'the Capitol' - are all these people more or less located in a single city?"
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