Volume 1, No. 1

Banquet / Tyrras ... 30 

another foreigner has to witness this shameful deed," Vera translated.
"You can tell him that this foreigner thinks he's a hero," Bellamy answered. There was a moment of silence. Women had joined their men inside the toilet, straining to see what had happened, all of them shouting and arguing about how many foreigners were knifed, some shouting suggestions, someone else saying that in the Soviet period, violence against foreigners was unheard of; others stood silently. One man pushed through and wanted to use the urinal, but Vera sent him outside.
"Where's your police?" Bellamy asked.
"They are of no use in such instances as this. Before our people were afraid of the authorities. Now there is no authority and people have lost their scruples; they fear nothing. We shall need to solve this ourselves," she said quietly.