The old man finished speaking and Ruination's prompts arrived before the silence after the words had fully settled.
|Ealdor Ubergulden Marxist- behavioral analysis.|
|Under standard Gilded social architecture, what you just did would have produced a very different response. A Luxuria humiliating a Superbius Gilded One in public, releasing Source pressure against an assembled group, none of that gets welcomed. None of that gets a philosophical monologue about pride being power. That gets corrected, hard, by whoever is senior enough to do the correcting.|
|Marxist is that senior. He is choosing not to correct you. The only reason a being of his standing makes that choice is that he assessed your power and decided it was worth more to him than the social cost of letting a Luxuria stand where you are standing.|
|He wants to use you for something. The welcome is real in the sense that he genuinely wants your cooperation. The goodwill behind it is not.|
