The Friends pushed those rioters from Demons back where they came from to protect the rest of the citizenry from rioting and looting from that low-bred mob. Instead of questioning and complaining, the anti-City crowd from Artists should support the brave men and women who stand between us citizens and the mob.
Why did this have to happen? Because it did.
—excerpted from editorial of The Ch’Iel Truth, special edition published two days after the 13th Joan fire.
Why is there a wall built between Demons and the river? So the sensitive souls in University don’t have to see the poverty and the tenements of Demons.
Where was the fire brigade when the whole of Demons was burning? They were in The Slopes and Whethers, carrying water for the rich who live next to the canals. They were in Gardens building a firebreak upwind of the fires. They were in University, across the river from the fire. Why?
Where were the Friends when the tenements were falling down with whole families trapped inside, when the residents of Demons tried to get water from the canals, and get their families to safety? Forcing them back into their burning neighbourhood. Why?
—Pamphlett widely distributed in the neighbourhood of Demons in the days after the 13th Joan fire.
