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              Flax was no fool. He had seen the signs already, the Tans no longer co-operated in the ways they had in the early days, now they questioned his requests and on the streets there was an ominous tension between his men and theirs.
                                If the Tans no longer needed him, he and his High Hats would become no more, become nothing, and he would die. Flax would not allow it to happen. He needed power, not just the power that the Tans had, but absolute power; that which the enigmatic Tallmen held in their blazing towers of light. He would take it from them and they  would  bow   to   Emperor   Silus   Flax,   master of Dubh. He would have god like powers like they had now. All this was powered by the yearning of a corrupted and perverse soul that demanded that Flax the rational animal use his intellect to fulfil its needs by any means. No morality or dogma, only the breadth and dark depth of his imagination bound him; and it was deep and boundless.
                                He was a slave to part of himself, that part gave him the  power when he demanded it and he did so by withdrawing from the pleasurable activities that  it  fed on. Then it screamed and  gave  Flax  the  power  to act and think beyond himself and towards the unspeakable pleasures he consciously imagined. It had given him the premonition to search for the dimension doors and to see in dreams that beyond one lay what he would need to destroy the Tans and wrench power from the Tallmen.
                                But It, this internal yearning, was not just part of him, It was part of most of the unshackled hedonists of  Dubh, It drove them all to consume pleasure in its vilest forms. It lived off them and It used Silus Flax. It, the malignant soul of the city which had its iniquitous tendrils in all of their souls, spoke to Flax now as he despaired at the  uselessness  of  the  desolate  world  in  which  this dimension door terminated.
    “Patience, not this place, perhaps not now and not here, but soon, soon, you shall have what I have shown you in your dreams. Your crown still awaits you. Patience. You are close my beloved." It hissed in unison with the arctic blizzard. Silus Flax laughed quietly to himself and questioned the voice that resonated within his soul.
    “Soon Emperor  Silus Flax will be rising, my dark soul becoming darker
    until all and everything becomes one with my desire, my being?"
    “Yes. "
    “And I shall live in an eternity of pleasure? “he drooled.
    “I already do, Silus. Do my bidding my beloved and you can join with me."
    Silus Flax had no gods, but he had a dark, dark faith that gave him the will and the power, to pursue his deepest desires and deify his black soul.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter Three
     
    Under the cathedral like domes of Machine Hall Nine, Flax's domain, the monstrous internal combustion engines thundered on relentlessly and continued to prove to be the most productive in output to the Generator Halls of all the Machine Halls.
                                Flax's promotion to Hall Engineer and its increased responsibilities, in terms of numbers of men and machines, had done nothing to dent his impeccable production record.
                                So there was little to threaten Silus Flax's position or his activities in the city. Only the Grand Council of the Upper City could dictate to him, but never did, because they all regarded him with the utmost fear.
    Fear, because his High Hats had demonstrated on more than one occasion that to oppose Flax was to sign one's own death warrant. But this was normally a last resort, dead men could do him no favours, bribery and blackmail were the Hall Engineer's usual

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