☀️ Arselia and Akonia

- All the paper-pushers should be hanged, or at least reduced in number – things would get a little better, but otherwise, life is quite normal. Or are you talking about some kind of maniacs? It just seems that way because the events are widely publicized, on the pages of newspapers and so on. There are far more unpleasant events happening, but no one knows about them or discusses them.

-- Exactly, -- Erephir caught the thought that Amamus had, which was also on her own mind, waving her finger. -- Newspapers, information, publicity. There are societies in the world where people are treated like cattle and blood flows like a river, and no one cares, but rich and civilized countries usually try to create the impression of an idyll. This may work for a while, but what if a huge number of negative news stories suddenly fall upon the heads of ordinary people, who are not used to it? That's what I'm interested in: how local people are accustomed to it, and whether they will go crazy if someone famous is killed one after another every day, as if to emphasize the thought, "you're next, buddy." How will such a thing change a society that is not used to cataclysms? There is a well-founded suspicion that something will happen. Panic is a dangerous thing.