Chapter 25
TO SADY, the afternoon session of the doga—the important debate to discuss the vital tightening and re-distribution of the budget—felt like stepping in tar. As soon as you thought you’d crossed it safely, it turned out there was some sticky residue on the sole of your shoe that kept leaving its mark all over the floor.
Sady seemed to have stepped in a patch of northern railways and had so far been unable to wipe the contamination from the afternoon’s debate.
Yes, the north would support spending on distributing suits to the southern regions, if the promised expansion of the northern railway remained unaffected by the budget cuts. Yes, they would sign for the injection of non-existent funds into the balloon industry, if the old trains got new carriages. Yes, they would vote wi
