After restoring peace, the government is making the final step that will see peace inside these walls forever.
The broadcast reached the room with the water still running behind the bathroom door — a thin continuous sound under the polished voice coming through the wall speaker, the kind of official cadence that filled every room in the capital whether you had asked for it or not.
Mercury and Venna sat on the bed. The mattress was narrow. Linn was in there bathing, and had been for a while.
This was the girls' room. King had put it aside for Linn a long time before any of this, and now it had three of them in it and had done for days. Clothes on the chair. The back door locked.
The execution of the traitors is the beginning of this new government. We call on every person inside these walls to come and witness history being made. The ceremony has already begun at the headquarters.
