maximalists

A lion’s roar was a warning that the confiscators had entered the neighborhood. It must have been recorded, though Liam couldn’t be sure. Was the roar something that the officials themselves emitted, or was it broadcast by a neighborhood resident as a subversive warning to others to hide their contraband? The officials seemed to at least tolerate it. Perhaps they were paid off. Most of the time they did not find anything, but they chose one or two houses to tear apart as a simple display of their power over the residents’ lives. Since the source used an entirely different alphabet, Liam was hoping that they wouldn’t recognize his journal as a translation in progress.