Thomas took the stage and looked at all the people who had assembled to hear him speak. It was like he had imagined, all of them enraptured. Glad to be hearing him. Asking him the questions that they all wanted to know, and all of them hearing his answers at once.
It was all he could do not to giggle.
"I am Thomas Townsend." He said, standing at the podium, and speaking into the weird snake like silver thing that the mayor had used. It amplified his voice over the room. He had to take a moment to get used to the sound of his own voice coming back at him over the speakers. "I will answer all of your questions. Like I promised."