Persuasion doesn't begin with words.
It begins with positioning.
The city felt angled that morning—not tense, not calm, but subtly arranged. People stood where they could be seen. Conversations happened within earshot of others who mattered. Tasks were chosen with an eye not just toward outcome, but toward who would notice.
Power had learned something important.
Force failed.Pressure backfired.Offers worked—sometimes.
So now it adjusted the frame.
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Arjun noticed the shift as we crossed a junction that had become a natural meeting point.
"They're putting people in places," he said."Not telling them what to do. Just… placing them."
"Yes," I replied."Persuasion always starts by choosing the room."
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The other Ishaan aligned, voice calm and exact.
Persuasion is spatial before it's verbal, he said.Who stands where decides who listens.
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By midmorning, the pattern clarified.
