Muirin's+Report1

To the Fox -

The region is in a worse state of famine than ever. Food is made short, both by conditions and by those in power. The garda síochána came and collected a loaf of bread and all the meat we possessed from each household as a "tax" twice this week. My brothers went to bed hungry last night - something I vowed never to have happen. They went to bed crying with their empty bellies.

It seems that the garda grow more corrupt each day, and those in power do nothing to stop them, perhaps because they are even more so. Yesterday two of the rulers came back for five of the local girls. These girls could not have been more than 7, or 8. They had the garda take them away without an explanation, while families wept and threw themselves at the garda's feet. I don't know what they could want with these girls, but by the sinister laugh of the garda it isn't good. I worry that they will take my brothers

There is a rumor that the rulers are going to shut down one of the mines. It isn't the one that I work in, but it has me worried. This region's people can't afford any more suffering.

- M