Mayor
I felt sick.
I had a fever and a headache and my joints were complaining. I shuffled across my carpet into the light. I stood looking out over the city with a steaming zipmug of CitruSinus in my hand. The windows overlooked a new age of wonder. It was a sunny day.
It would continue to be sunny until 4:10PM when a light shower would cover up the sunset. It’s the way I organized it. I’m the mayor. One of my duties before the dawn was to decide the day’s weather. It was my favourite part of my job these days. It had gotten rough.
The secession of the East Side into its own forceful municipality had hurt my ratings. The arming of the homeless by the opposition had further damaged my career. The tasers and plasmawatt shockers were ostensibly for defense but assaults had doubled since they handed them out and vigilante action was on the rise as a result. The police were threatening to strike. I was about a day away from declaring martial law and going down in history as a Bloodmayor. The city I had tried to help was almost out of my control. The people who voted for me were threatening to riot. I knew then how Marie Antoinette must have felt cooped up in the palace while the people outside of her palace pushed on the gates and called for her head.
I sighed and looked at my city and took another sip of my drink. There was smoke coming from the east side again. I heard distant sirens on the way.
I told the window to zoom in on the source of the smoke. The news channels covering that area blossomed in my peripheral vision as the window targeted and refocused. An ambulance had been tipped over in another east side riot and was burning. The lifeless drivers were being torn apart by a laughing crowd of pierced hysterical drugdowns.
I thumbed my lapel and gave the order for a clearout. Two seconds later, a blast of light lanced down from the sky and incinerated a circular footprint twenty meters in diameter around the ambulance.
I looked up and I could see that the maser had burned a perfect circle through the clouds.
Story of my life. I enjoyed making the weather for this ungrateful city. I shook my head. I made my decision.
The next weather tapquest I sent out was going to read “two months of rain”.
No mercy. History be damned. This city had to be brought to heel.
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I had a fever and a headache and my joints were complaining. I shuffled across my carpet into the light. I stood looking out over the city with a steaming zipmug of CitruSinus in my hand. The windows overlooked a new age of wonder. It was a sunny day.
It would continue to be sunny until 4:10PM when a light shower would cover up the sunset. It’s the way I organized it. I’m the mayor. One of my duties before the dawn was to decide the day’s weather. It was my favourite part of my job these days. It had gotten rough.
The secession of the East Side into its own forceful municipality had hurt my ratings. The arming of the homeless by the opposition had further damaged my career. The tasers and plasmawatt shockers were ostensibly for defense but assaults had doubled since they handed them out and vigilante action was on the rise as a result. The police were threatening to strike. I was about a day away from declaring martial law and going down in history as a Bloodmayor. The city I had tried to help was almost out of my control. The people who voted for me were threatening to riot. I knew then how Marie Antoinette must have felt cooped up in the palace while the people outside of her palace pushed on the gates and called for her head.
I sighed and looked at my city and took another sip of my drink. There was smoke coming from the east side again. I heard distant sirens on the way.
I told the window to zoom in on the source of the smoke. The news channels covering that area blossomed in my peripheral vision as the window targeted and refocused. An ambulance had been tipped over in another east side riot and was burning. The lifeless drivers were being torn apart by a laughing crowd of pierced hysterical drugdowns.
I thumbed my lapel and gave the order for a clearout. Two seconds later, a blast of light lanced down from the sky and incinerated a circular footprint twenty meters in diameter around the ambulance.
I looked up and I could see that the maser had burned a perfect circle through the clouds.
Story of my life. I enjoyed making the weather for this ungrateful city. I shook my head. I made my decision.
The next weather tapquest I sent out was going to read “two months of rain”.
No mercy. History be damned. This city had to be brought to heel.
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