cachumbambe! vasco/valentino blitz
Aug 28, 2020 23:49:25 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2020 23:49:25 GMT -5
Valentino had already made himself comfortable in the Justice Building's throne, finger grease wearing at the white numbers on the telephone. They let him in early -- well, they received money and unlocked the building in exchange, but if you skip those steps it sounds better on paper. It smelled like moth chewed fabric stools - as it had when he checked earlier that month - along with that familiar layer of sawdust.
District Seven had a way of littering it everywhere, the smell of sawdust in his nose even as he kicked back and dialed the next number.
Slowly crossing through names on the list, making bargains and creating that list as he went. Carpenters to District Two, and to District Six -- Pierre remembered Valentino's name, if only from five year old rumors. It's nice to be remembered, he thought to himself, especially so as he dialed the digits next to V., Izar.
Each candidate casts their own shadow; Talon had held office for twenty five years, stepped down, and left a room empty of everyone but her sister. That takes some fear tactics -- Valentino would know. And evidently, so would Vasco, the only three candidates with no oppositions. Talon's sister, Jacinta's father, and, well.
The Izar, a family Valentino had kept a thumb on.
The dial tone rings for just a bit, just long enough for the man to stitch his sentence together. Old tongue he kept under lock and key and a dead weight marriage, and by the time the other man had picked up, Valentino was still clearing his throat.
Ahem, "yes, Mr. Izar?"
Valentino had always been careful to keep the language to his family- maybe that's why Jacinta always felt so out of place. Speaking it so forward to Vasco Izar felt like a crime of itself, and Valentino can only get away with so much in one day. "Hello, this is Valentino Salazar, the upcoming mayor of Seven. You see, I'm the only candidate this year and I hear you're in a similar position," he says, thinking of what else they could have in common.
Where to begin? The dead language or the dead children?
"Which is fantastic! I must admit, I'm glad to have the head start."