>>5382672Solomon took a quick glance at the audio transcript and saw that the silent conversation was a series of escalating arguments and accusations with the crowd on one side and Carter and Jun on the other. Just as the vocal frenzy seem to reach its apex, Andersen, Charlotte, Karey, and several other unknown daughters entered the scene, their mannequin stand-ins materializing in a variety of ways to reinforce Jun and Carter. The Audio log went silent for what seemed like minutes before Andersen made his opening statement.
Solomon didn't bother to check the audio transcript to get a good idea of what Andersen said, as the crowd's stillness soon gave way to restlessness and gestured anger until finally it broke into violence and a pitched battle began between the two apparent camps.
"Are we getting all of this down?" asked Yan.
"Yeah, but it'll take me a while to sort 'everything'." Solomon answered, glancing between the self-inscribing pillars and the scene of carnage. "There's several pillars worth of data to sift through once everything settles."
"Well you won't have to wait long." replied Yan. "The Hunger Riot's wrapping up. Though I wouldn't exactly call it a 'riot'."
Indeed, by the time the fight ended, the square was littered with corpses, with the group Carter was aligned to the last ones standing. Yan and Solomon continued their silent observations as the winners of the riot went through the tedious dirty work of cleaning up the carrion and tending to survivors until like actors in a stage play exiting stage left, left the square.
(to be continued)