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[As early evening stretches shadows and forces the temperature down from Unpleasantly Hot to Basically Tolerable, Penny finishes scraping the last traces of graffiti from the Welcome Center's facade. She picks up a small stack of posters and addresses the network.]

Okay. I'm all for getting involved in what's going on in the community and freedom's a great thing, but it's been a week and I'm still picking these [a demonstrative wave of the posters] up. The graffiti's not too bad. The flyers, though? I don't know where anything in the City comes from or if we need to worry about conserving natural resources, but in most places, all of this anti-deity Cityzen stuff would be putting a dent in the tree population.

I'm not saying that stirring up some rebellion is bad. I just don't think we need to go around wallpapering the City with posters when we can talk about it. Save some trees--or whatever it is paper gets made out of here.

Oh! And sorry, but I'm not interested in any uprisings right now. Just trees. The curses've been weird enough this month without annoying the deities, right?

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I've heard about those--the higher powers, I mean. I haven't seen them, but some people say they've been here. Maybe it's just a rumor. If it's true, then why wouldn't the deities say anything? You'd think they'd want to blame the curses on someone else.

I don't know. I don't want to know if finding out could upset the City.

[She sighs. Humans in their short lives are often very concerned about peace at any cost, and that includes "dealing with a negative situation far past the point of reasonable behavior."]

Sometimes pain is necessary for growth. Standing still and taking what the world throws at you is only noble if it is the best decision to make...otherwise, it is simply a fear of the unknown.

["Dealing with a negative situation far past the point of reasonable behavior" is one of Penny's talents! She can't give that up!]

I don't mind being afraid if that's what it takes to keeps people from getting hurt.

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