From the recovered journal of the Battle of the New Alamo, April 10

April 10, 2017

    I have made sure that everyone who was against the lottery have been secured. They will not stop the rest of us from surviving! I will make sure of it. Last night, when I told the others of my thoughts on those who were resisting, everyone agreed with my conclusion. They are to become our food source. The rest of our brave people, those who know what they have to do to live, will be rewarded by being taken out of the lottery and we will draw the name from the cowards in the paddocks. We will feed them what we can find that they will eat. After all, we don't want them to die before we are ready to consume them. That would be a waste of a valuable resource.

     We were lucky that Wendy was such a well proportioned lady, it made it so she was the only one of our brave people who had to die to keep the rest of us alive. Now, we will slaughter our food from people who are still trying to live in the past. This is the new way! The only way! Those asshole soldiers never made it back with supplies, they failed and everyone has to accept it. If we want to live, we have to go down this dark road. But we will do it with our eyes open and know that we have chosen to live and survive, no matter what!

 The cowards just cry and make noises about their rights and the law. Well, I am the law! They will accept my laws, or they will be cattle. I will be magnanimous and will ask one last time if anyone wants to join my people, but if they refuse, they will be nothing but food. We will have to reinforce the paddocks to hold our cattle safely, but we have the ability to do so.
     I wish they would shut up for just a couple of minutes. What are they so upset about? They are still alive and I might decide to keep a couple of them around to serve us. Why should we have to do the work when we have others who are below us in the pecking order. Maybe, if they willingly serve the rest of us, we will keep them around for longer. If they serve, they can have their name taken out of the lottery, at least temporarily. See, I can be forgiving. I will bring this up in the morning tomorrow with our captives. I think it is the best use of what we have on hand and it might just make some of our food shut up, for now. And my people will not have to do the jobs that no one wants to do. It makes perfect sense.

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