PROFESSOR TORA NAPREM,
in collaboration (hoho) with the most esteeméd Sheva, author of the government-toppling literary wonder, The Mistress (AO3)!!
The second soldier returns from the back of the house with a pile of books Naprem recognizes as hers. He tosses them down on the floor, and like alva blossoms they go cascading over the carpet, hopping and skipping, tripping over one another, landing splayed open with their pages fanned out. Civil Disobedience in the Modern Age, The Celestial Templar: Radical Reinterpretations of Religious Texts, and her signed copy of To Have and Have Not: On Liberty Without the D’jarra.
“Tora Naprem,” the leader says. “We have orders to arrest you on the behalf of the Bajoran Occupational Government.”
“I’m shocked,” Naprem says, coolly. “What are the charges?”
“Tora Naprem,” the leader says, with evident delight, leaning in to gauge her reaction. “You are charged with disrupting the peace, spreading radical ideologies, plotting against the Occupational Government, and otherwise inciting rebellion and discord. How do you plead?”
“Oh, guilty, very guilty,” Naprem says through her teeth. “Though I know you wouldn’t ask if you thought any different.”
“You feel no remorse for committing these acts of anarchism and extremist agitation?”
“None at all,” Naprem snarls.
The leader grins down at her then, showing all his sharp teeth.
“Take them,” he says.
DEFIANCE!! DESIRE!! DEVASTATION!! and a Siren Song of Interstellar Proportions! Coming to you LIVE from Terok Nor in our year of the Blessed Prophets 2328.
Propagandist’s Notice: Contents may be hotter than a pah wraith and twice as likely to cause social ostracism.
