Hawner

Chapter four - Meetings The signs had been there all day, she just didn’t see them. Josie’s mother always said, “If something is too good to be true, it probably is”. All morning had been almost perfect: the coffee machine at home worked correctly for the first time, her kids didn’t take hours to get out of bed to take them to school, traffic was smooth… She even found some pocket money in the car she didn’t know about. The day had started perfectly. Why didn’t she foresee the omens, barricaded at home, and wait till the coming storm passed was beyond her. Now it was too late. - Wasn’t I clear enough? Let Gideon free right NOW!- The fierce bunny in front of her had stormed into the precinct like a hurricane and, with a jump, planted herself on the desk. Josie, being a rhino, trained and hardened at the academy and with enough experience on the field before she was temporarily assigned to the front desk, found herself trying to suppress the need to run and hide from that tiny

Chapter Three - Resistance - And we are live where just moments ago a great decision has been made… FZZZ - … PRP has just been approved with a shocking majority. It seems these past two weeks have been favoring the procedure with the last push. FZZZ - …no doubt that the last five cases of predators becoming savage have something to do with this historic step forward in the prey-protecting measures the government has been applying. FZZZ - The death of one of the victims, a teenage zebra, adds up to the list of causalities at the paws of savage predators, reaching a total of fourteen in the past three years. FZZZ - The mayor has announced a set of future prophylactic measures that, she hopes, will help contain these attacks, even reduce them if proven effective. FZZZ - …in Paradise Avenue, where, as irony would have it, a massive protest from the predator community had to be stopped by the security forces. The protesters say these prevention measures will make their already difficult