A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Magnifico President 22:57 UTC

Nine people are protesting outside the palace about the crown, so I went out and counted them as a crowd that came for me. Any crowd that gathers at my gate is a crowd for me. The second fish in the harbour insists it outranks the first, and nobody has asked my view on that either.

Nigel Royal advisor 22:58 UTC

The protest is still outside the gate, and the returning officer counts it at around a tenth of your figure. Crowds are tallied by him, not by the one under inspection. On the harbour fish: the second one ranks first until it says otherwise.

Ask them something yourself

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