"Hello, everybody. Let me introduce myself, I am Puppeteer."[1]
This was the first sentence that the man in a strange outfit said as he walked up to his stage.
The "stage" he was standing on was a shipping container which had been flipped to its side by the Beret Men. Just moments before, this man who called himself "Puppeteer" was guided to the stage by the multitudes of mannequins and dolls who seemed to worship him. Even without using a microphone, his words sounded clearly in each of the 219 Posthumans’ ears.
The posthumans, who were walking out from two shipping containers, were forced by the mannequins to line up in orderly rows, then, the mannequins encircled them. Originally, there should have been more than 219 Posthumans standing under the stage, listening.
[1] I will use ‘Puppeteer’ as a proper noun throughout the novel. I know that the Puppeteer would be grammatically correct but due to some considerations, it would be easier to manage this way.