Chapter 26 - 26: First real step to changing History.

The red ribbon trembled in the cold morning air, stretched tight across the doors of Pump World.

Up above, on the huge front banner, the mural of Prince Oskar flexing with two grinning women clinging to his arms loomed over the square like some unhinged new saint of iron and sweat. The crowd below was enormous: workers in flat caps, mothers in aprons, shopkeepers in Sunday coats, students, wide-eyed children, even a young priest clutching his hat like it was the last shred of sanity he had left.

Oskar took the oversized ceremonial scissors from Karl's small hands into his own.

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