Black scorpions have occupied the cracks of the square, then the foundations, finally the robes of the marble guardian, wrapping every symbol in a cold, venomous grip. They colonized the capital through deceit, then all the great squares of Europe finding a land already emptied by years of indifference, where the people's exhaustion and anger had been left undefended. A people who, just to feel protected in the dark, opened its doors to its own executioners.