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"Visitor": A Paragraph Per Day
Topic Started: Mar 29 2016, 11:35 PM (1,858 Views)
jlsjlsjls

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The penultimate paragraph ...

"I appreciate that. Sincerely. I'm going to unpack, get my staff situated. First off, I'm going to talk to Ogun. He and I aren't strangers, and he called me, en route. He wants order restored. We're in complete agreement on that. He has asked that I keep the section doors shut."
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jlsjlsjls

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To the end of this week, as promised, since most of you appear to have your own copies now, and this final day just happens to have a longish paragraph.

"Under present circumstances," Bren said, "It's a good idea. But understand--the conditions in the Reunioner sections are not comfortable. Some of the apartments, as I understand, are more like cubicles, with temp paneling, not even real walls, no water tap, no secure storage, just a fold-up cot to sit and sleep on. And two or three roommates not necessarily of your choice. Bath is shared by sixteen apartments and food service is four or five kitchen counters to serve an entire section. The situation can't go on. Maybe we can't improve the living conditions right off, but we can give these people news, some hope that 'better' is coming. We can improve the food, hell, that at least. And com service needs to be restored, once we're sure Braddock sympathizers aren't using it to coordinate disruption. If we don't restore it, we're going to have more Braddock sympathizers. The Reunioners are afraid, and not just scared that the kyo might blow up the station without any reason. The kyo's arrival was the trigger, but not the core of the problem. Ten years of surviving on rationing after the kyo blew hell out of Reunion, then we come along with brochures advertising the good life. Freedom. Abundance...and they arrive to a second-class citizen reception from Tillington here at Alpha. They've no reason to trust us. Not now. Tillington's done a lot of damage. The Reunioners aren't sure they won't be handed over to the kyo on demand. That's crazy. I don't think that's remotely what the kyo would want. But rumors don't have to be rational."
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Xheralt
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Time to un-pin this thread.
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