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Monday, May 19, 2014

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"Why are you here?" The question hung once again over him, this time as a dirty residue from a fading dream. Bjorn tried to ignore both the question and the dream, and let them evaporate during his morning routine. But the question and the images were too vivid to go away on their own, so he went through it systematically instead in the hope that a quick analysis would expose the silliness of it all and thereby render the uncomfortable question powerless. And Bjorn quickly realized that the dream was in fact little else than a strange and mixed up collage of impressions from the day before.

In the dream, Bjorn had been enjoying a wonderful meal when Maria from Independent Law had suddenly appeared in front of him, claiming to represent his ex, and it was Maria who had asked the uncomfortable question on his ex's behalf. Bjorn, being unable to answer Maria's question was then asked if he had insurance. And when Bjorn admitted to being uninsured, Maria simply vanished into thin air along with a half finished sentence. "Well, if that is the case..." she said, disappearing as suddenly as she had appeared. Then, looking around in the empty room, Bjorn realized with a shock that he was sitting in a prison, with no doors, and only a tiny window from which he could see the village.

"Such silliness," Bjorn thought to himself, but the images and the question stuck with him until he came down to the kitchen where Ante quickly brought him out of his meditations with a bit of real news from the real world.

"Have you heard the latest on the asylum seekers?" Ante asked with a touch of excitement.
"No? What happened?"
"They burned down the asylum seeker centre in Lier!"
"They burned it down?"
"They did! And when the firemen arrived, they pelted them with rocks and kept them away, so now there's nothing more than a smoldering heap of ruins where the buildings used to be."

"And these are the people we're going to get up here shortly?" Bjorn asked rhetorically as he sat down for his breakfast.
"It is indeed."
"Lier doesn't happen to be the same place they held that demonstration the other day?" Bjorn asked, wondering if the media attention of the last few days might have set the riots in motion.
"You know... I was wondering the same thing. But they didn't say anything about that. They did say that the asylum seekers at Lier were scheduled for deportation next week, though."

Bjorn dug into his bacon and eggs while contemplating the implications of the riots.

"It's going to be a mess, isn't it?" Bjorn thought out loud.
"Bringing all those people together to this one location, you mean?"
"Yeah..." Bjorn confirmed with a nod. "Imagine hundreds, or even thousands of thugs like that, all brought together to this one place."

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