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Two moves ahead · Files everything · Delayed detonation

Day to day — While everyone else reacts, you are positioning. You can see who is about to ask for a favour, where a conversation breaks, what everyone will understand a week from now. Half of what looks like luck is this.

Blind spot — The trouble is that everything you hold on to accrues interest. You do not say it at the time, you file it. Months later the whole folder opens over something small and the other person has to defend a case they did not know existed.

Up close — People close to you know you are keeping something. They do not know how much. That uncertainty wears harder than an argument, because they can never confirm they are currently fine.

At work — You are best where judgement and patience pay. You stall where somebody needs an answer or a reaction on the spot.

Clicks with — Evil Kitten and Peeking Cat: both are calculating, at different scales

Wears you out — Screaming Cat and Happy Happy Happy Cat: they put every card on the table