Chapter 9: The dome of heaven

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The effects of burning down Paradise Falls did not take long to notice. With the northern area threat removed a stable trade and communication line between the Mall and The Commonwealth was established. More and more refugees started to come and for the first time the problem of housing all of them starting to be possibility. For the first time Elder Lyons started to see the possibility of moving in to senate building. He created a task-force led by Jen for this reason. The trenches infront had been filled a long time ago, but the stairs was still bearing the scars of the wars that had been fought on the steps and of course there was also a corpse of a Behemoth Super Mutant lying under the dome. There were several people that hoped that it had rotten away since it had died almost 2 years ago. Jen included.

She now walked up the steps into the Senate with five armed guards around her. Since it was not declared a safe area it was better to be safe then sorry. She stopped on the top of the stairs and looked at the Mall. It was a beatiful sight. New buildings and windows reflecting the sunlight. It was people actually going too work and there was also the first cafe established at the The mall. And the last month all of the births were normal, no stillborn children, it was truly a miracle.

The citadel

At the same time, something less than a miracle happend on the other side of the Mall. At the basement of the Citadel seven people were being interrogated. Alle of them former slavers and all of them prisoners of war. But the Brotherhood had no time for definition of what was right and wrong, they needed answer. Knight Hanks throwed another punch at the handcuffed man sitting in a chair. It hit the prisoner so hard that he fell from the ground and down with a serious bruise.

"For the last time!, where are the Talon and what is your connection too the Legion?" Hanks said.

"I dont know what you are talking about!" the slaver almost cried out. His face was red and blue and his nose was broken.

"Is this really necessary?" Annabelle asked while watching the whole ordeal through a video monitor.

"Did they take pity on the countless of slaves we now uses lots of resources on so they can have a normal life." The younger Sarah Lyons answered.

"Are we like them?" Annabelle countered the answer with.

Sarah Lyons had really hated herself for not being able to fight in the battle of Paradise Falls. She had been pumped with tons of Stimpak to heal her broken bones, but it could not help against fatigue and réhabilitons of the limbs. For days she used all her time too train herself up again to be the best soldier of the Brotherhood and the Pride of her father. No she was almost in hundred prosent capacity and was supervising the interrogation of the slavers captured in the battle.

"We don't have time for being ethical, these bastards would love to see this place burn and carry all around us in chain. I see no reason not be a little bit harsh too get the truth out of them."

Lyons pushed the button of the intercom on the side of the monitor and started talking.

" Hanks, take a break."

From the monitor Annabelle could see Hanks left the room and two seconds later entered the room the two women were standing in.

" I actually believe that he does not know anything." Hanks said.

" I agree, from the documents we took from Paradise Falls he is a lower class slaver. Barely managed to capture anyone and have been in the game way to little too have any loyalty too the slavers." Sarah proclaimed.

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