NaZooverse - Book 1: The Risen Curtain

Chapter 15 - The Interview: About Mages

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

~Swinston Churchill

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Zootopia was a city busting with mammals, and these mammals all wanted to follow the news of what was going on.

Some of them wanted to know the latest developments of the recent craze that was going on about mages. Some of them wanted to know the latest information about the dealings of Paw Street. Some simply wanted to be on pair of all that was happening. But all of them wanted to know the news and, for that, Zootopia counted with its own source of information: the ZNN.

The ZNN was the Zootopia News Network. They were the main news channel of Zootopia, with news around the clock, special editions in the noble hours, and with their own websites that relayed all their programming and all they showed to the public. They truly were the main source of information of the public of Zootopia and even of other cities and states, once they were famous for their access to information, their credibility, and their efficiency in presenting information to the public.

From the trivial of everyday information to the truly important happenings, the ZNN covered everything. Sometimes it even surprised its viewers with special news reports about truly remarkable happenings.

As it was the plan for that day.

On that day, a special story had been deliver by one of the reporters of the ZNN. A story deliver in secrecy, and being kept so until it was time to show it on the noble hours.

It was a really good story, and few inside of the ZNN even knew it existed, the reporter's boss, who had seen the story himself, and was... surprised, to say the very least.

He was quick to want to work to get the video on air on that same day, and the reporter fully supported the idea. He gathered some mammals, and let them know that there would be a special report on the place of the usual news report of that night. Of course, he made sure to keep the thing as hush-hush as possible, even from the other workers of the ZNN.

"Something like that should be a surprise." He said to them, and all of them agreed with him.

The ones who had direct access to the video also knew what it was about, and they were surprised as well, just like the two anchors that would be presenting the special news report. The other were pretty much left in the dark, as they were only told to be prepared for the news report.

The information was kept as secret as possible, and it only was revealed what it was about around one hour before the special report was to air, when a preview of the later news revealed that there was going to be a special news report, as well as the subject that it would be showing.

Once it came out, everyone was surprised.

The information of that special news report, and its subject, spread like fire through dry woods. Mammals kept sharing and re-sharing the information on said special report. They talked about it to each other via mouth-to-mouth, shared on MuzzleBook and other social medias, causing everyone to look forward to the news.

Some of them even wondered if it was something real, once it was something that they surely were not expecting, making them wonder if it was some kind of joke, or maybe fake news. Some looked forward to it, wanting to see the news, while others seemed to feel outraged for such a thing going on the news.

However, it was a sure thing that practically everyone in and out of Zootopia would be tuning on the ZNN to see it this was really all of that.

Effectively, at the time of the usual nightly report, around six pm, practically every one of the city was tuning in to watch that special news report.