Fieldwork 5 meeting aaliyah boles

I decide to meet with Delilah again after discussing a meeting with her through text **SEE TEXTS WITH DELILAH** - I arrive at the busy subway station. Everyone was getting off of work around this time and just reaching home. Many people hurried along with their phone right in front of their face. This station had the same sort of set up as the one previously described when I arrived a few weeks ago. - I see Delilah dressed in a pair of slacks and a nice chiffon top. She looks radiant, and when she sees me, she smiles and waves me over. We take the train to a location I’m not sure of, as she makes me close my eyes. The ride takes about 40 minutes, and I hear her stand up and talk to someone on the train. I don’t know what she’s saying because the train is flying down very rough rails. I hold on tight and hope that everything is okay and I’m not going to die. - When we finally arrive, we walk off the train and directly onto a shiny concrete platform. We walk through two mirrored doors with golden handles, and into a room with high ceilings, chandeliers, and candle lit tables. Emma: This is nothing like what I imagined. Delilah: I know what you were imagining... but nothing like that really exists in this country anymore. Everything you buy seems extravagant... so why not do this if someone underground gives us the money to! We laugh *** As I walk out of the meeting, I think of the speaker of the evening, Aaliyah Boles. She’s a hacker, and used to work for Anonymous before the secession. She spoke to us about her advancements in demolishing the country’s security system for at least a few minutes. She said she didn’t know how long she could turn it off for until she tested it, and wanted to run it buy all other members. It shocked me that the speaker of the evening talked to everyone the same way, and wasn’t full of herself. I asked Delilah if there was any one leader of this organization and she responded saying “yes and no. We’re all equal but I’m the one who sets up when the meetings are and chooses the speaker and all that...”. I laughed at her humbleness, and we took the train back. She still made me close my eyes. While they were closed, I thought of the ways Aaliyah said that the people could help, and singled me out as one of them. While there I didn’t know why she did that, but knowing Delilah was sort of the leader and invited me, it made more sense. She said that if we knew anyone outside, we could tell others about what is happening. Someone asked how to do that without the government noticing, and she said that once tourism increases, the people of Zinmara can befriend outsiders and once trust is earned, the people can act like mules for information, thus creating an outrage and a rebellion will spread worldwide, and unify -

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