Eli looked incredulously at Cedric. "Please do not tell you that really believe that horse shit? You have got to know just how badly all that shit went down. Two members of the leadership were critically injured, the whole of the public now knows you guys can't really protect them and that, not to mention that one member tries to show female empowerment or whatever the fuck by not waiting for the backup that she requested and a child solider got nick furied by some ten year old girl. On top of all that, you just showed them most of your cards which to proved to be at most mildly effective. Even after I had thinned the heard for you yah and none of this even touches the shit storm that's gonna hit when the news finds out that I landed on this door step. So tell me kid, did anything go well? Did you at least get the surrogate? Cut a nut from Jaden? Stab Lancaster in the ovaries? Something that might buy you sometime?"
Eli wasn't in the advising market. Truth be told as time went on and the more he learned he wanted less and less to do with any of this. There was no doubt in Eli's mind that this was a massive failure. Cedric being a former child solider should have the balls and mind to prevent such a shit storm. None of this made any sort of sense, well one thing did, the dumb ass kid was at best incompetent and not just young.
"Eli you need to back off! Mr. Wessex feels bad enough as it is!" Eva Adams snapped. Eva knew she might of been over stepping but someone had to stand up to Eli and him being nothing short of a bully and a creep. Eli had taken things too far. It was high time someone put a stop to it, or so that's what Eva Adams had thought, right or wrong.
Eli quickly turned to Eva before letting in to her. "Eva Adams. Just tell me how many people got killed today? How many deaths could have been avoided? Here's the answer, all of them. No one had to die to day. All the kid had to do was wait till another day or two. Fact of the matter, they got comfortable and when challenged they lost. The Reformists lost and it don't matter what the numbers say. Just what the people say and now this person says I'm starving, so can someone point me in the direction of either an exit or a place where I can get a huge meal?"
Eli knew he was being an ass, its not that he didn't care but more the kid needed to hear it. If he had heard it before then this was to drive it home. Eli couldn't help but wonder just how bad this would if he hadn't been there. Egotistical? Sure. But the fact remains he had saved the girl and had burned a shit load of... things to death.
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