The Trouble With Heroes....
“The town was overcrowded, but that wasn't the worry. Everyone was wondering whether they, too, would end up on the road north.
An occasional group of refugees had a citizen in the family and had to be let in. Those people told tales of whole families ashed, though when it came down to it, no one had actually seen it. Of course not. No one got that close to a blighter attack and lived.
Except fixers, and the fixers weren't fleeing north.
Angliacom showed charts and graphs that tracked the hellba...ne wave, all the time assuring viewers that the fixers to the south had everything under control and that the temporary visitors -- never refugees -- would soon be able to go home.
Academic analysts pointed out that the supposedly ashed families had probably left to go north, and any piles of ash would be animals they had been too softhearted to kill. That was presented as a lack of kindness -- they left animals to die a terrified death, but Jenny knew the necessity was to starve the blighters.
Jenny wondered how many worked that out.MoreLess
An occasional group of refugees had a citizen in the family and had to be let in. Those people told tales of whole families ashed, though when it came down to it, no one had actually seen it. Of course not. No one got that close to a blighter attack and lived.
Except fixers, and the fixers weren't fleeing north.
Angliacom showed charts and graphs that tracked the hellba...ne wave, all the time assuring viewers that the fixers to the south had everything under control and that the temporary visitors -- never refugees -- would soon be able to go home.
Academic analysts pointed out that the supposedly ashed families had probably left to go north, and any piles of ash would be animals they had been too softhearted to kill. That was presented as a lack of kindness -- they left animals to die a terrified death, but Jenny knew the necessity was to starve the blighters.
Jenny wondered how many worked that out.MoreLess
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