He waved my concern away and I needed not to pursue the conversation. Later in the day the powers went as expected and the whole city suffered from a great white burden. We kept hearing that people got stuck in the traffic and could not return their home and many people labelled yesterday as the most shameful day in Ponderland's recent past. This was the city where the heart of an enitre nation beat, where history and modernity have met in a lovers embrace over centuries and finally screwed their relationship up thanks to the civic government (but what's new?).