Chapter 21 — The Visiting Team

A serial novel in the form of correspondence among a family while the world as we know it collapses around us. I recommend you start at the Introduction:

https://medium.com/climate-for-change/climate-for-change-introduction-5331d5ab9313

But you can start anywhere you want.

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Chapter 21:

Printed on Computer Paper (hand-delivered by Charlie):

Dear Benjamin,

Your Grandma and I were really glad to get your second letter. Really glad. Our lives have been so crazy since the coup, but it puts life in perspective every time we remember that you are in a prison camp up north. It makes our work down here even more important.

Spring has started to come to our township. Everyone is out tapping maple trees, and we are starting plants in a big collective greenhouse that we are heating a night with a wood stove. People are making garden plans and repairing equipment. It is really nice to not be so cold.

Last week I was visited by another helicopter one morning. I thought at first it might be General Stewart, finally come to try to make a deal. We haven’t seen or heard anything from him or from anybody from the city since we shot down all his drones. I think we scared him, or maybe he just put us on the back burner while he trains up and arms his private army. Anyway, I thought it might be him again, but it wasn’t. It was a team of military scientists from the Circle…