Illustration for What Rank One Is Worth, from the adult visual novel Rank Two

Rank one is a room with a blind and a stipend and a number nobody says to your face, and he stands in front of the wall for a long time working out what he is going to do with it.

HalvardThere is a decision here and it is not a small one. The Tower will read whatever you file next as the new precedent, and there will be sixty people in this yard next week copying whichever thing you do.

DeaconI know what I want to do.

TamsinThen decide it in front of the wall, where everybody can see you deciding.

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