Samples - Eyes in the Sky
The word spread like wildfire from the squatted communities in Vancouver again, and this time, that expression felt more accurate than ever before. It spread to all countries, all lands, all cultures and groups, and washed away the old even more than before. It couldn’t be ignored. The establishment attempted to ridicule it, but failed miserably.
– They know who to believe, Sandy grinned. – They’re finally fed up with the lies, and all of them return to haunt the establishment. People also know we don’t worship the aliens, and still they come. It’s all so enjoyable.
Still, they came, like an unsteady flow, a boiling waterfall. They had trouble accommodating everyone.
The commune residents put up signs outside every commune.
REFUGEES, MIGRANTS AND SEEKERS WELCOME
– Why do you call them refugees? A journalist asked incredulous. They aren't, are they?
– They are refugees, Lillian said, – persecuted by their government and society.
– In western democracies?
And that shut him up.
She looked very pleased with herself when she returned to the others.
– I do see it as significant progress that they have become too cowed in our presence to ask us the same shitty questions, she giggled darkly.
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– Welcome to Downtown Eastside or DTES, Nick stated.
They noticed the special mood there. Those only recently having departed from their valley looked wide-eyed at the massive squalor, the hookers and the drug dealers and general suffering. Those people stood very much out in their eyes.
They quickly caught sight of the roaming police officers as well, watched how the uniform created terror wherever its wearers roamed.
One officer hassled a hooker. They saw that she knew him, knew him from experience, watched how she shrunk in his presence, knowing well how the evening would turn out. Ted broke his index finger, the one the man didn’t wave at her face. The uniformed bully looked astonished at the ruined finger. He forgot about her, and pulled back. She looked puzzled at him, with visible relief, not knowing, not understanding what had happened, what had made him stop in his obvious intent, but not really caring about it. Her weariness, her dull expression turned a little less dull.
The female travelers, like Fatima, Pleione, Stevie and Bavete sought instinctively closer to the males, and looked down in shame, even as they, with their higher awareness knew that something important had happened.
– You’re wise to be afraid, Linda told them. – This horrible existence can destroy the strongest spirit.
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