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Do you know what a miracle is? It's one world's intrusion into another one. Most of the time we exist peacefully, but when we do touch, there's cataclysm.

Like any faithful priest, faithful revolutionaries also believe in another world. Where revolutions break out spontaneous and leaderless, and the soul's talent for consensus allows the masses to work together without effort, automatic as the body itself.

And yet, if any of it should really happen that perfectly, I would also have to cry miracle. A revolutionary miracle.

The saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the pulse of himself--these are witnesses to miracles.

And yet I feel that I have witnessed a miracle too. That by the united will and wishes of the people of the City, of its own Cityzens, the oppressors have fled--have been made to flee in the face of the united will and wishes of the people of the City.

Now peace can settle into all the corners and windowsills of the City.

Now the first of the work is done and the real work can begin.

[ooc: Onward and upward! ...right? Or is it more parabolic? Time will tell...]

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Whatever it was, I question whether 'peace' is really coming to the City.

It is. Much as we can manage it.

And how're you gonna manage it?

It's going to be a multi-part process and it'll require collaboration between you and us.

Straight off, we're going to stop the curses. I mean, that's a given. We know those are a major problem and cause a lot of stress. Am I right or am I wrong? Okay. So with those eliminated, we're hoping that a measure of emotional distress will be removed.

Fuck me, I sound like Jamf right now. Whatever.

So, okay, without the curses, everyone'll feel better.

Next off, we're going to rework the barriers. We'd like to get everyone home who wants to go home, let everyone stay who wants to stay, and maybe even get the barriers done up so that everyone can come and go as they please. We've got a working theory on this and we're probably going to test it in the next few days--so watch for that.

Okay, so that's all the initial stuff and it's all pretty City-specific, I know. So now I'm going to move on to the general stuff.

In a situation like this, you have to provide a lot of economic and social stability. We've just had a revolution--literally, we've just had a revolution. Everything is in chaos. So we're going to keep a lot of things the same for the sake of stability. We didn't want those "deities" kicking around anymore, but the, say, economic system of the City is still viable. We're going to support that and encourage it. With a little more growth, the City as a whole should enter a time of genuine and sustained prosperity. Economic good times are key to a basically peaceful society. Anyone can tell you that. We want to support what's already going on here.

One problem despite all this is, inevitably, going to be lawlessness. The "deities" were tyrants with cruel laws and cruel punishments. Justice may sometimes outweigh Mercy, but we'd like them both to be tempered with a little of King Solomon's wisdom. We're going to work on what the root problems for, say, violent crime are and resolve those issues. Thereby resolving the problem itself.

This isn't going to happen tomorrow. This is, you know, a major project. And it won't be without difficulties and there may even be failures along the way. But--hey, you're an American. You know how it goes there. Good times, bad times, you know you've had your share. But it works out in the end.

That's an impressive speech. Sounds like you rehearsed it beforehand.

[A pause.]

Sure, I'm an American. I haven't always been, though, and I hear a lot of promises here without a lot of plan, impressive as your rhetoric is.

He's got a lot to remember. I mean, this is our dream so...

Then congratulations on it seemingly coming true.