"Oh, my, listen to you talk. As the saying goes, you can't expect ivory to come out of a dog's mouth," Pompeii said with a look of utter contempt. "Even if you're right, it's no use telling me. You'll need to go talk to the old folks back home in the family; you know I'm nothing more than the family stallion."
"So what do the survival of the family and the world have to do with you? Why not have Patriarch Pompeii step aside for a moment? It will be over soon enough," York said with a polite and courteous bow.
"The survival of the family might not have much to do with me, but the survival of the world has everything to do with me," Pompeii said solemnly. "If you lot tear this world apart, I'll have to say goodbye to these beautiful rivers and mountains—and to young maidens even more beautiful than the mountains and rivers!"
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