09-30-2023, 05:28 PM
They aren't doing anything wrong. They have just admitted to hating each other. That Guthrie is not privy to the precise facts about Jude is not a betrayal, but a mercy. Still, Jude pauses when the phone buzzes in the midst of his monologue. It is a brief pause, a cipher that could mean one of many things. Then he goes on.
(He does not know Guthrie's name, but he does know the text is Guthrie. Jude is full of these inexplicable, inconsistent knowings.)
Jude shrugs. "These are important people. They need to stop committing their time and money to this project." In a different time, the Family would have enmeshed themselves more directly in the government, as bureaucrats and politicians. In modern America, a corporate oligarchy, power lies outside the public sphere. The Family thus interfaces directly with the power brokers, not their pawns.
Arching his eyebrows, he nods his chin at the water. Come on. Bring it over. "There's enough people and places that it's a shell game. I just can't be under the wrong shell when they pick it up." The operation around Jude and Juliet was small but intense. At the time of Jude's escape -- and as it appears currently -- they lack the manpower to surveil all possible locations at all times. But yes, Jude is always in danger of dropping in somewhere that's watched, or dropping into someone who has been told to call if they see him. It's happened a few times. It's a life, but it's not an easy one.
(He does not know Guthrie's name, but he does know the text is Guthrie. Jude is full of these inexplicable, inconsistent knowings.)
Jude shrugs. "These are important people. They need to stop committing their time and money to this project." In a different time, the Family would have enmeshed themselves more directly in the government, as bureaucrats and politicians. In modern America, a corporate oligarchy, power lies outside the public sphere. The Family thus interfaces directly with the power brokers, not their pawns.
Arching his eyebrows, he nods his chin at the water. Come on. Bring it over. "There's enough people and places that it's a shell game. I just can't be under the wrong shell when they pick it up." The operation around Jude and Juliet was small but intense. At the time of Jude's escape -- and as it appears currently -- they lack the manpower to surveil all possible locations at all times. But yes, Jude is always in danger of dropping in somewhere that's watched, or dropping into someone who has been told to call if they see him. It's happened a few times. It's a life, but it's not an easy one.