“I woke up this morning. Been woke ever since. Your sensitive soul must have missed that story, Olive, darling. It was a thing last week. For about ten seconds. And the week before that, that power station in southern India imploded. Remember that? Two hundred women and children working on a road next to it died. And Tamil Nadu’s last wetland evaporated, taking seventy-eight species of fish and crabs with it. And how long was that on anyone’s radar?”
Clara went full screen. Everyone focused on the Green Panthers’ financier and leader.
“Panthers, stop flirting. Giving Emerald a helicopter funeral in the middle of Central Asia was a tough thing to do. But you did the right thing. He’s got miles of empty desert to himself now. We will recruit a new Panther. But now we need to move on. Sileo
