In public they continued to occasionally meet. Oblivious to apparently oblivious subjects who mastered indifference or side-glancing, they cheerfully practised laughter and chatter, and seriously professional dialogue. Things were being done, the domain was being run.
She recorded the footage, and noticed no show of deep dialogue with the subjects settled in the domain. The less influential and powerful in status, the rarer the heads to heads. As was usual with hierarchies. Except this structure was not meant to progress in the future, just provide stationary running. As with all systems that eventually stagnate and progressively fail.
Another observation was into the unaware, because within old established headquarters the secret executions of directives could not be and were not revealed. Those that sat in council were already succeeded by the next older generations, or remained fewer, entrenched, approaching the ancient, humbly serving now venerable, for that lasting stability is another kind of power.
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