Marl's Memoirs {oneshot blitz series}

I think I’ve got the measure of my opponents now. I think I might have a little bit of an edge, having already had a career as a politician. You learn to read people. Because half the people around you never say what they mean, and the other half never mean what they say. It’s up to the individual to decipher the doublespeak, the half-truths and the little white lies and make sense out of them.

Heh. There’s that cynicism again.

Anyway, Sartorius, now he’s a good man. That much is plain to see. But he’s a had a hard life. Harder than most folk at any rate. He’s got something to prove, whether that’s to himself, or to the rest of us I’m not certain. I think he’d make a good mayor, but I also think he’d crack under the pressure. As for Kieran Emberstatt, I think he’d make a good mayor too; in about eight to ten years from now. He’s young. I can’t say as I think he rightly knows what he’s getting himself into.

If he does win, he’s gonna have to grow up fast. The Capitol and his constituents won’t pull any punches just because of who his daddy is. It’s just my opinion of course, but I get the feeling he thinks this’ll be a lot easier than it is. Maybe it would have been five, six years ago. But not now, not when everything is up in the air. As for me? Well, if I don’t win this it’s back to a life of quiet retirement on my ranch. The competition is going to be fierce. Think that's a good place to leave this entry. There's a hole in my chicken wire needs patching.

And ain't nothing ever fixed itself.