Brennen im Feuer Ch 4

It was a valid question, but I definitely had an answer. To make it work I needed this group to recruit more people. A dozen people would have no chance against the government; we would need around one hundred to have even the slightest chance. I asked everybody to try to recruit as many people as possible to the cause in the hopes we could actually affect the district.

For the next few weeks we had meetings on Wednesdays and by the fourth meeting we had over one hundred people. During that time we had orchestrated a few disturbances and had started some buzz amongst the citizens of District 1 and the government. The police were trying hard to figure out where we were hiding and how to catch us but we were skilled at evading them.  Each week we had the meeting in a different location so it would be difficult for anybody to zero in on us.

On our fifth meeting, I got everyone together and informed them that we needed to have an official protest. We would start out peaceful but we knew full well violence was a probable outcome. The police rarely handled even slight provocations with civility. The day that Paul died, the old man who was being harassed in front of us was only missing his ID card. Their handling of that transgression was to assault him and then eventually kill my friend. The Coalition was causing some real problems; however the police had yet to find us a serious threat. The protest, I thought, would definitely cause them to see us as a threat. We scheduled the protest for the coming Sunday and I was excited to see the fruits of our labor.

 

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“Our mole inside The Coalition has told us there will be a major protest this Sunday,” Azrael said to a man dressed in such a way that anyone could tell he was the superior to everyone around him.

“Really? Well, that group is really coming along quickly.”

“What would you like us to do?”

“Let it happen. Morrigan has the potential to be more than just a thorn in our sides but I need to see how far she can go. Let the protest run its course and we’ll go from there.”

“Are you sure, Commander? I don’t think that’s the best course of action here.”

“I don’t need your insolent tone. I am the be-all, end-all and I will make the decisions. Your concerns are noted though.”