"Madame Binoitte, please calm yourself!"
The fiery woman would not be calmed. She waved her arms, gashed her teeth and shouted her challenge to the very heavens themselves.
"Calm down?! Shan't! Won't! It's an outrage, it's the ninth time this year! Short of eating all my gold, I don't know what else I can do to keep it safe!"
Someone at the back of the room cleared their throat, and as one the town meeting turned.
Not at the back of the room. They politely cleared their throat again, but outside.
"oh for god's sake!" Madame Binoitte yelled, storming to the doors of the hall and flinging them wide, "it there's one thing we don't need more