The group of the majority of Danadians stood on floor three dozen. “Yep, it's definitely a factory,” said Nathan.
“So
who made it?” asked Zandria. Jessica and 7ollion shared a quick
glance, and communicated nonverbally their intent to not rat out
Toaster-Man.
Then
Toaster-Man ratted himself out. “I did!” he said proudly.
“Welcome to the Ministry of Toast!” Everybody stared at him, with
varying mixtures of shock and confusion.
Jeffery,
who had been in sort of a funk until then, snapped out of it, and
said angrily. “You realize you just broke literally the only law we
have. Looks like it's back to court.” He sighed.
“Wait,
what about the bowling ally?” asked Zach.
“Make
it on the next floor,” said Nathan. So Zach went up the stairs. A
moment later he went back down.
“Yeah
that's taken too,” said Zach. “Still factory.”
“How
many floors does this take up??” asked Jeffery.
“Thirteen,”
said Toaster-Man. “Don't worry, all of them were needed.”
“Needed
for what??” Jeffery asked incredulously
“The
Ministry of Toast,” said Toaster-Man. “Try to keep up.”
* * *
And so
another trial commenced, back down on the first floor. This being an
actual criminal case, a jury was chosen, randomly from those present.
I'll spare you the details of this trial, mainly because everyone
argued circles around Toaster-Man, and it was kind of embarrassing,
even to watch. Years later nobody in Danada would remember the trial
itself, save for the fact that it came to Jeffery's closing
statement.
* * *
“Look
the fact is everybody wants to forgive you. But, we are running out
of floors. We can dream and dream all day, but someday we're going to
run out, and we will have to start building. We can build them on the
top or we can build on the ground or underground but we need to do
something. It has been three days and we have filled nearly half the
building. You did not have approval and you took something that was
the world and turned it into your ego. You can't be part of this
society. You already aren't. And I'm sorry; I really am.”
And
thus the jury reached a verdict. Toaster-Man was sentenced to
banishment from sight of the Leaning Tower of Pizza.
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