"Why the hell do they get to eat meat and drink wine? They'd rather dump food in the trash than give us a bite. Even the relief grain the Walter Conglomerate sold us at a low price, they grabbed it all."
"They've already taken our money, taken our jobs, our lives, even our families. We've got nothing left to lose."
"Either come with me and take back everything that belongs to us, or get lost and starve to death like you deserve."
It might have been a few hundred people, but most of them were just there to make up the numbers.
Vick understood exactly how to work their minds. If you wanted them to overcome their fear of those bastards, you just had to drag out something even more terrifying to awaken the beast inside.
That "something" was hunger. No one knew that feeling better than Vick; even now, just thinking about it made him shiver.
And right now, these people were the same.
"We've had enough!"
"Count me in!"
"Take back what's ours!"
