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Jun. 12th, 2006 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shuftiShe knew the war would start again some time. But that didn't make her any better prepared for it.
On the second day Paul read her a note from Polly. She'd gone to stop the war with words.
On the fifth day people were queuing up outside, begging for food to take with them as they evacuated to Ankh-Morpork or other countries.
On the sixth day people broke into the Duchess and took the food anyway. As did the army, when they caught up.
On the seventh day Paul woke Shufti quietly in the night, told her to get dressed and get the massive supply of formula milk she had for Jack with her, and they escaped into the forest as the mobs continued to raid the town. Desperate, screaming people, already suffering from the previous years of war, and now knowing that this would mean further starvation.
By the tenth day, as they huddled in their makeshift shelter under the trees, the food had run out. Jack was the only one still being fed.
Commander Vimes had once said that there was no need to fight Borogravia, he just had to wait for it to fall to pieces.
He was right. Except that it didn't stop them from fighting.
On the second day Paul read her a note from Polly. She'd gone to stop the war with words.
On the fifth day people were queuing up outside, begging for food to take with them as they evacuated to Ankh-Morpork or other countries.
On the sixth day people broke into the Duchess and took the food anyway. As did the army, when they caught up.
On the seventh day Paul woke Shufti quietly in the night, told her to get dressed and get the massive supply of formula milk she had for Jack with her, and they escaped into the forest as the mobs continued to raid the town. Desperate, screaming people, already suffering from the previous years of war, and now knowing that this would mean further starvation.
By the tenth day, as they huddled in their makeshift shelter under the trees, the food had run out. Jack was the only one still being fed.
Commander Vimes had once said that there was no need to fight Borogravia, he just had to wait for it to fall to pieces.
He was right. Except that it didn't stop them from fighting.
