Brass Carriages and Glass Hearts by Nancy Campbell Allen EPUB & PDF – Details About
- Author: Nancy Campbell Allen
- Genre: Steampunk Fiction, Steampunk Science Fiction, Scottish Historical Romance
- Publish Date: 6 October 2020
- Size: 3.5 MB
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Emmeline Castle O’Shea stood at a podium on the balcony of the Municipal
Hall for Citizen Affairs and looked out with satisfaction at the
murmuring crowd, feeling the energy build in the large room as she
finished speaking.
“We worked tirelessly for the repeal of the Predatory Shifter Extermination
Act, which was not only unethical and cruel but grossly illegal, yet factions
within the Predatory Shifter Regulations Committee are meeting tonight with
plans to see it slyly reinstated!”
The crowd, which had begun as a midsize gathering of Shifter Rights
advocates, had grown in numbers as curious passersby peeked in to see what
sort of ruckus they were missing. And ruckus it would inevitably become.
Such was the nature of the business.
Emme was not an advocate of rioting, not usually, but when social justice
was slow to evolve, certain consequences naturally followed. As president of
the London chapter of the Shifter Rights Organization, she was firm in her
admonition that violence was permitted only in cases of self-defense and that
destruction of property not belonging to members of the hated Committee
was neither advocated nor condoned.
Those parameters left plenty of room for movement and interpretation, of
course, and Emme was aware that each successive gathering and protest had
the potential to turn ugly. Her people were professional and knew their rights
and responsibilities, but she couldn’t be responsible for the unruly fringe
elements that often joined whenever the SRO mounted a protest. Some
people rioted for the sake of rioting.
People streamed in through the side doors and the back of the large hall,
and a sense of foreboding snaked up her spine. The constabulary were
already gathering, and she knew that a certain member of the Yard would not
be far behind.
Tonight’s cause, however, could not be ignored.
Months ago, she’d demanded the repeal of the Extermination Act—the
sanctioned murder of law-abiding citizens who happened to shape-shift into
predatory animals three days each month—which had drawn the attention of
the International Shifter Rights Organization. With the international body’s
support, and through a few influential members of Parliament, the London
chapter had brought about legislation that should have seen a permanent end
to the barbaric practice.
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