When Jackson and Abe entered Jocelyne's room, she knew exactly who she was without even looking back. "Excuse me if I called you on such short notice"
"No problem, miss" Abe promptly replied. "We would be back soon anyway"
“I still gave you some vacation. And you needed it, especially you, Abe. So it's right that I apologize to you" Jocelyne said, then winked at the big man: "How are you with Dariela?"
Abe shrugged. "All right. She is still a little shocked too if she tries to deny it, but she is recovering quickly her... she is a strong woman"
"I'm glad, but I didn't mean it that way" Jocelyne said mischievously.
It was funny to see Abe embarrassed: the huge man two meters tall and with shoulders as broad as a wardrobe who blushed like an elementary school girl was a priceless sight. "With your permission, I am not required to disclose the details of my private life"
"They got together" Jackson revealed point blank, with a wicked grin
The Constitution officially entered into force one day after unification. As promised, the government provided Jocelyne with all the necessary means to transport food across the nation, and they opened the new homes made from the old family properties to the common people.The change was almost instantaneous. Within a day, hunger disappeared from the country and in three days everyone had a roof over their heads. The Great Republic of Beleriard had set a record: no nation on the planet could boast of truly having a zero homelessness rate. Unemployment still existed, but it had finally become less onerous: with the security of a roof over their heads and food on the table, people no longer had to fear so much about losing their jobs.And as Jocelyne had predicted, this did not lead to a decrease in employment in the least. After all, the television license had to be paid, the car installments had to be paid, the furniture had to be paid, a lot of things still had to be
Jocelyne looked at the NMWA envoy with inattention, who had been talking for ten minutes. “I say it for you! Your nation will benefit too!" he exclaimed. "We may not have another chance! You MUST take advantage of it!"Jocelyne wrinkled her nose and rolled her eyes wearily. The envoy, whom she thought was called Grigorji, was already the sixth that the NMWA sent to speak to her in an attempt to persuade her to allow the movement of weapons on the soil of the Great Republic of Beleriard. And it had only been three weeks since she became president.After the election, you immediately set out to counter the demands of the NMWA, which, as she had foreseen, had become increasingly difficult. Foreign nations were literally trying to crush the Great Republic of Beleriard, but Jocelyne had prepared for it in advance.After she became president, she immediately appointed Jackson as foreign minister, and the latter firmly opposed the NMWA's claims, continually recal
“The situation is now critical to say the least. If the Great Republic of Beleriard does not yield, all our efforts will have been in vain! "It had now been two months since Odaria had refused the deployment of the NMWA's weapons on their territory. By now, the patience of the foreign nations was reaching its limit, and that of the five superpowers of Eden was already over. Clearly, their word carried far more weight than those of other nations; Unfortunately, as was the case in many international associations on Earth, the strongest nations were privileged over the others, despite the fact that the NMWA boasted equity among all its members.The five superpowers were now tired of waiting, so the heads of state of all five nations had requested an emergency meeting with the president of the NMWA. And so Palma had organized a private meeting in which the President of the Confederate States of Vinland, the Queen of the Prettania Kingdom, the Emperor of the Almagna
“Stand on the sides and keep the guns in their holsters. I don't want to hear a shot, not even the sound of a gun safety, without my direct order. Remember, we are here to welcome an ambassador, not to fight"Abe was coordinating a group of soldiers who were stationing themselves along the border between the Great Republic of Beleriard and the rest of the continent, the same border that Jocelyne and her team had crossed a year earlier to go confer with the dinosaurs. Now the situation was the same, only reversed: now it was the dinosaurs who sent the ambassador.As defense minister, Abe could easily have sent any officer to greet the ambassador, but given the delicate nature of the mission he had preferred to attend in person. Jocelyne had made it clear that this negotiation had to go well, so they could not afford false moves.The group waited. Abe had thought of everything to make the ambassador at ease: to avoid making him walk, he had brought a truck w
Al's arrival among humans was not the easiest. There were no particular incidents, but that certainly did not mean that the journey had been smooth.First, Abe's security measures had slowed the convoy's speed considerably. Al knew this was for his safety, but it was still annoying for him to stay in a truck in the blazing sun. Luckily, Abe had taken care of that and had a huge industrial fan installed in the vehicle that gave the allosaurus some relief. However, this had further slowed the journey as that object consumed a huge amount of energy and therefore had to stop to refuel the truck. Because of this, it had taken them nearly three days to reach the capital.Secondly, there had been not one, but two assassination attempts during the trip. In the first case it was a massive number of car bombs positioned along their path, and Abe's security measures had proved effective in avoiding them. In the second case, the attackers had become more ingenious: they had tried
J. Wesley McCullough was a veteran of Odaria's old army. The only reason he was alive was his luck: just a week before the disastrous battle with the dinosaurs he was discharged because he was deemed 'too unstable'. That was the only reason why he hadn't been slaughtered like everyone else. After that event, he had been reintegrated into the army by force of circumstances, since almost all the officers were dead, and from a simple captain he had been promoted to colonel. Since more than 90% of the army had disappeared, he had easily obtained a high-ranking position, also because he had very high-level acquaintances.However, everything had recently changed. Householders had been eliminated and McCullough had lost his ties with the government with them. Then, the new nation began promoting peace with the dinosaurs. To which McCullough had firmly opposed. He had founded his own party, Defense Humanity, and had promoted a defense policy against the enemy. Much of the surviving a
Quaritch went inside the hold. He was aboard the flagship that was leading their fleet to dinosaur territory at the time.Inside the hold were all of his subordinates: the colonels, officers and other high ranking individuals, who had come personally from the other ships to learn about the plan.Quaritch spread a map in front of them, on which was drawn the square shape of the continent of Maakanar. “Gentlemen, this is how we will act. We have already contacted all our allies in Beleriard and are ready to act. Here's what will happen in the next seventy-two hours"Quaritch placed a tiny model of the flagship on paper, near the colony of Cartago. “Our fleet will head here. We have taken all precautions against marine animals: our hulls are very resistant and the submarines will offer us cover. Marine reptiles won't be able to stop us from reaching the bay. It will be here that we will attack"He placed a model plane on the coast. “Our job
"So this is the strategy of the Colonel and the NMWA..." Jocelyne smiled. "If he didn't put the country and humanity at risk, I could almost praise them"Odaria's new president sat in her study, listening to Al's words. The allosaurus had explained to them everything Snock and Rambo had discovered.The two were not alone in the room. All the people most loyal to Jocelyne were gathered there with them. There was Jackson, the new foreign minister, who had returned promptly given the emergency situation; there was Abe, the defense minister, who obviously couldn't miss a meeting like that; there was Malcolm, the interior minister, and there was his friend Dreyfus, the new chief judge; obviously there were her parents and there were some collaborators with him.“We did well to put so much pressure on the NMWA and to speed up the peace projects so much” Jocelyne murmured. “If we hadn't, the Colonel could have recruited many more people and fomented a