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At Rana's suggestion, you all take a break. After you come back and make the last few preparations, the protest finally gets underway—just in time for the lunch hour, the most critical of hours for the protest to start.

By the time passers-by start to fill the street, everything is in full swing, with the crowd around you holding signs and chanting slogans as Rana stands in the middle of it all.

It's just as you're starting to take everything in, however, that Rana picks up a clipboard and holds it out towards you.

"Hey—could I ask you a favor? We want as many signatures as possible for our petition, so I need somebody to take it around. Would you mind taking it and asking anybody who walks past to sign? It's about to be lunchtime, so there should be quite a few."

Seeing your slight hesitation, she pauses and gestures towards the ground, where a few more placards with slogans are propped against the table.

"Or, if you'd rather stay with the group, we'd be happy to have another protester—as long as you don't mind standing with a sign and keeping up the energy for a while, I'll go and take the petition around. It's up to—"

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