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The house
was low, very very low. They had dug into the rock below the sands and
the grain to make the room so expansive. Hovering directly above the
green carpets and deep wooden desks was the Parliament's roof, mostly
glass, the sky blanketting everything.\
\
Hundreds of people behind desks stood as a slow procession moved towards
the centre of the house, to a circular table in the middle. All the
desks and people and carpets spiralled out from this centre, where the
sun was darkest. More people decked the galleries, silent, watching the
people behind a caped woman move towards the centre, spiralling closer
and closer. Swords, animals, vessels of red sand, sceptres and fading
ancient scrolls, symbols of kings, queens, revolutionaries, ideas past
followed the cape, to be joined in the centre.\
\
This was the third house. On either side of this house rested the second
and first, carpets of red and blue. The third house was where both the
Nelen and Jousen could sit, the most powerful of all the houses.\
\
After all the gift bearers had left, and all had been seated, the house
was cast in silence. The giant wooden doors on the south opened,
throwing a long, thin shadow through the circle's middle. Through the
south, and only isle through the circle to the middle a suited man
walked, bearing no colours, gifts or obvious significance. He paced to
the centre table, which immediately found their feet, the rest of the
house sitting in confusion. There was no chair for this man, at the
table. All eyes on him, he turned to the southern door, still open, a
chair was carried in for him.\
\
Roggs Mallow and Mister Sherpie sat in the gallery.\
\
"This seems a bit disturbing."\
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"The missing chair?"\
\
"The whole thing, Roggs."\
\
"One day we're talking about war, the next we're giving people their
free choice?"\
\
"It's being forced upon everyone. The war, freedom, I doubt any of this
is anyone's free choice, its like Jardenia just gets pulled this way one
moment, this way the other, like it was all planned, all written out and
everyone's tortured accordingly."\
\
"Have you been converted, Sherpie?"\
\
"It's just a thought I had, that's all. It's not like I believe it, but
if you had asked me two years ago that this would be the way things are
changing, I would have had you committed."\
\
"I get that all the time."\
\
"Not *you*, you idiot Roggs..."