"It's radical women!" Wood shouted. "Hailey was right! They're multiplying!" He drew his baton. "And insane women! That one is talking gibberish!" he shouted. Radical and insane! Were they going to eat him alive? Oh if only he could go back to investigating missing bikes. Crane wasn't helping of course, the criminal-hugging pushover!

Meanwhile the chairman looked at Lailani with big eyes. No one had ever insulted him like this, and certainly not a woman. What was the world coming to! There was so little decency these days. He turned to the constable. "They are interrupting a public event!"

Some people in the crowd began to call for the arrest of the ladies. Bolder members of the audience shouted out that they'd rather watch the ladies than listen to the chairman.