Trust, like money, needed a... «The Traitor Baru Cormorant»
RamingoWS10 октября 2017Trust, like money, needed a guarantee to back it. She would need allies with secrets. Secrets that she could hold over them. If she wanted to build a web, well, she could make it out of people already full of hooks. Yes -- that would do it. Everyone poised to destroy everyone else, and thereby held in check. A trust governed not by love or simple fear, but by the assurance of mutual ruin, by the delicately balanced threat of certain annihilation for anyone who stepped out of line. Mutual blackmail.
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