It takes about twenty people to run the world, and you only get to do it if you’ve been really, really awful.<\/p>\n
There’s a waiting list.<\/p>\n
“So what’d you do?” asks Barclay, peering through a porthole into the center of the Earth. Inside, ragged men shriek and stumble on the treadwheel, watched and occasionally electrocuted by cold-eyed imperators.<\/p>\n
“Finance,” says Mathers shortly. “You?”<\/p>\n
Barclay checks his phone again (still no service). “A little arms,” he says, “a little dope.”<\/p>\n
“I invented the Electric Slide!” says Wellburn, which is just his little joke, he actually killed a lot of old people.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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