Arriving in front of the microphone stand, accompanied with his aging, but neatly dressed friend and confidant, Ronin, and his young business protege, KingProer, Ezekiel cleared his throat two times to silence the mutterings and began to speak.

“It was only a few days ago that I came back from my long hiatus away from these shores, to what witnesses had described as a long and vicious war. Blood from both sides had been spilt, bodies had only just been removed from the streets, and the walls were newly peppered with holes from the waves of bullet fire. Rumours filled the street that the seven major cities and their heads had now declared peace amongst the land.”

“The city heads had gone from war mode, to rebuild mode in an impressive time, and had been allowing more and more newly promoted families to frequent the streets in hope to recruit the newly homeless, and the people that had just reached the shores who were hoping to replicate the success their predecessors once had. To aid these families and relieve the stress slightly, old and new bloodlines alike had offered to open their own properties to temporarily house the homeless and needy.”

“Not one to shake off my feelings of duty and responsibility, I had sent a telegram to representatives of the powers that be from the Old Country explaining that I had an ample sized property with adequate protection to keep the homeless safe until they were recruited from any one of the established families. It was 24 hours later that I had received confirmation and blessing from the Old Country to set up temporary accommodation for the homeless and newly arrived people that were seeking work.”

Placing his cane down and scraping the microphone stand along the ground to the left, Ezekiel shuffled to the side and sharply nodded at his subordinate to open the gates. With a massive clunk, the lock opened and the gates creaked wide open.

Smiling as he positioned himself behind the microphone stand once more.

“I declare The Elders Council (container crew) to be officially and temporarily open.”