With so many things in his mind, Uriel could barely focus in the opening ceremony. He watched as the megacity's higher ups stood in front of a podium and talked nonsense about cooperation between nations and megacities in the current trying times. Everything sounded nice, but they cared to keep it to general and abstract instead of naming any particulars about any steps they could take to actually help each other.
They were, after all, politics. The kind of people Uriel hated the most, after lawyers of course.
His attention drifted from the herd instinct that turned people into a crowd whenever they were packed in a place and then to the way the stadium had been built. It looked somewhat like the roman colosseum which he liked, though he did not like the fact that it was built by the jacobs company. It showed in the way they saved in materials by reinforcing only the bare minimum with alloy while at the same time making it look too grandiose for the actual budget they possessed.
