Chapter Six: The assembly
The streets were crowded with people who beat each other and smashed the furniture, yelling , fires and other signs of vandalism took over the settlement. All this had begun in the first championship game Molavec, when the home team had started to use overly aggressive techniques against our team. Several followers of the latter party rebuked the judge, which is not nothing like the defenders the other team, leading that in a real battle that led to the suspension of the meeting and moving the conflict to the streets.
While almost all members of our community and all the components of our team were confined to their dwellings, the vast majority of fans inside computers were creating chaos. That night the elders who had accompanied us met to decide its continuity in these games and the decision was unanimous, was leaving the next morning back to their home. A wonder this decision because these people, quiet and peaceful life unaccustomed to such violence or want to partake of an activity, instead of creating connections between settlements and clans, was leading to unhealthy competitiveness and conflicts that could lead to really serious clashes.
Thus, as the elders decided the next morning we prepare our luggage and started our way back to the outer rings. It was a journey filled with stress and worry, the silence was the hero all the way, and both Frre as I kept thinking of all the information we had obtained and if all we knew until now could come to be associated with the attitude that we have seen in the residents of the inner circles.
days passed and our community all returned to normal, but our concern grew day by day so Frre decided that he should request a hearing with the Assembly to expose what we had learned so far and ask their advice.
presented to the Assembly was not easy, this was formed by the most learned elders of nearby settlements, who are elected by the elders of each of the settlements, in other words, before reaching the assembly had first going through the advice of our community, once exposed to the track this council will decide whether it is appropriate to pierce the Assembly, if this were so the elder council representative of the Assembly would meet with other representatives of the other settlements and between them decide if they would receive those involved.
Thus I was allowed to accompany Frre his audience with the community council. There
my host explained the ecological disaster that we witnessed in the sacred lake, the recent information we had, the suspicion that several settlements in the interior was using ethnology that defied the very foundation of their society and how it seemed that is spreading rapidly by the challenge of settlements. Frre
was not only a great host, but also a great speaker, so was no doubt that the board approved his request to meet with the Assembly.
If you get an audience with the assembly was not easy, assemble either. To be formed by several members of various communities the meeting point was at the furthest point possible intermediate between these, a small settlement that only lived for these occasions. This settlement was basically formed by the great hall of the Assembly, where auditions were held and small huts around it if the meetings were long days.
Assembly's response was swift, as the days passed and we had no news, until he finally summoned the council to inform Frre in two days was presented at the Assembly Hall to present their case.
Again we prepare for a trip. The night before our departure I Frre helping to organize all the information we had gathered, so that the elderly could easily understand everything that my host was going to expose. So far only had a lot of conjecture and a few tests so we expected to obtain approval and support of the assembly to investigate further and have the resources we would need to carry out an investigation into conditions. I, who had come to this planet as a mere observer with the intention to conduct an anthropological study as many others had done, I was being forced to become increasingly involved in the affairs of the people of the two suns. There was something happening that was influencing the natural development of human societies and had to find out it was. Since that will not end until the time set by the planet could not contact with the outside, because until then it would send a ship collection. There were no port and no near-space probe in orbit, was alone. Who would have thought he would need to send a message subspace?, This was the quietest and safest planet in the sector. Therefore it could not rely on any authority top, so I was on duty for more research on this issue that was taking us back through the desert, yes, always respecting the methods of the people of the two suns, because their resources were the only tool he could tell. Gathered
as members of the assembly, Frre was summoned to the main hall. Minutes earlier he had confessed he was nervous having never before been targeted toward the elderly. On one occasion he saw an assembly when I was much younger, when his father took him with him. The elders seemed so wise and so mighty. Emanated respect and listened over and each of the presentations being made by speakers. Discussed on community problems, crops, yields, water scarcity or solved occasional trade dispute. Indeed the assembly of elders was the highest authority in the area, and if Frre could convince them of the importance of the case certainly put all possible resources available to the research. Frre
I accompanied to the entrance of the room just as I was to see the entire meeting from the stands. The construction interion was certainly beautiful, finely Decorações. Had a hemispherical with a circular hole at the zenith that allowed the entry of light. Opposite the entrance was installed a platform on which you could see 7 chairs which were more like thrones, which were behind a long stone table. In each of these chairs sat an elderly component of the assembly. I sit in the stands that filled the rest of the circumference of the room except for a small hallway that led to the main entrance and which at the time came Frre. This is directed to the inside of the room, almost directly below the hole in the ceiling, so much of the light coming directly impinged by it as if it were a focus. He stared at the elderly and began his presentation. While talking Frre watched carefully for the elderly. Two of them were half asleep as many staring and the rest looked down upon my companion. Frre
Once concluded her presentation elderly retired to deliberate and after a few minutes returned to their seats after the stone table. I could not leave my surprise, the elders were Frre rejecting the proposal to open an investigation, alleging that settlement issues concerning them only inside them, if they had decided to betray their traditions that were so, it does not influenced the life of the societies of the outer circles. Frre rebuked them had problems with the supply of the sacred lake, but the elderly just saw it as an annoyance and whose only solution was to plan trips to the lake with more days of passage. Frre never ceased to protest but the elders settled the session with a flat refusal Frre thus had to leave the room by dragging the disappointment and discouragement.
That night was spent in the settlement of the assembly. Throughout the remaining days Frre not talk about, was downcast and thoughtful. I did not know they also tell me drunk discouragement, just wanted to get to dinner, sleep and take back home to continue my studies. He only said one thing before we went to the dwellings, which would encourage me and make that my stay there long More interestingly, stared at me and told me "In Da and Durvin Seeva, We do it ourselves"
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