Pip bit her lip and scowled at the ceiling. Nope, Duckie's way of explaining that business was not going to work on Acantha. Not to mention that Acantha didn't /need/ to know about the whole get-my-say-on-the-end-of-a-sword kinda philosophy that lords were so big on (every one of them that Pip had touched, anyway). "OK, so most people getta vote, but there're special jobs you can only get appointed to, an nobody getsa say in those cept people already been appointed, so anybody was goin for straight up democracy failed rilly, rilly heard."