First, the good news.

I have word from URE that three board members of his company, K.R. Development, have earned

congressional seats in the Societal Council.

I do not wish to imply that we should care about such things as government.

Oh, that's not right.

We absolutely should care.

I have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles in the past three years growing the reach

of the cradle.

And URE has been behind me, providing me with information, vehicles, clothing, food,

and in extreme cases, weapons.

It is not a safe world-sigree, and we can choose to hide from it, or we can choose to fight

it.

I have long believed there were these two paths for us, and the former was the wiser.

When I was young, your grandmother, Bridget, told me again and again that we must stay

hidden.

That the cost of our happiness, our peace, our very lives, was that we must keep them all

concealed.

Her priority for me, for all of us, was to create a community where we could live safely

without need for or censure from anyone else.

It was a beautiful dream.

There are those within the cradle that argue that this peace we have in concealment is insufficient.

Some believe we should not have to live life this way, that we should fight openly for

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