![[worldbuilders.png]] *Added to the Codex on* ***September 12th, 2023*** --- ### Quotes "Last time we met in Damascus, I said I'd need your help someday." - Oz "I think my fighting days are behind me." - Zain "We need to build a future. Not kill our way to one." - Zain <br> ### Description \[Transcription excerpt from recorded meeting between [[Codex/Profiles/Loyiso "Oz" Okusanya|Oz]] and [[Codex/Specialists/Rasheed Zain|Rasheed Zain]] at a [[No-Pats|No-Pat]] settlement in New Cairo City, 2040.] OZ: Don’t tell me, you did this all on your own. ZAIN: I could ask for help… But they’d just slow me down. OZ: It’s good to see you, my friend. ZAIN: It’s been too long. \[Oz looks around, takes in the development of the No-Pat settlement.] OZ: It’s impressive what you’ve done here. Truly. ZAIN: We couldn’t do it without your help. I can give you the tour – show you where your money’s gone. OZ: Later. \[A pause. Zain sighs.] ZAIN: …Not a social call, then. OZ: Last time we met in Damascus, I said I’d need your help someday. ZAIN: What does this help entail? OZ: Leaving here. Rejoining the fight. \[Zain taps his wheelchair.] ZAIN: I think my fighting days are behind me. OZ: They don’t have to be. The people who are backing me can help. ZAIN: What about this place? All the people here, the families. I can’t just abandon them. OZ: Our fight is for the people here. And millions others like them all over the world. \[A pause. Zain smiles.] ZAIN: That sounds like something my mother would say. OZ: A wise woman. ZAIN: She was. She would also say we need to build a future. Not kill our way to one. OZ: Then come with me, brother. Let me show you what we can build – together.