Jure

artistic interpretation of Jure by Birdy (@rcbirdy on tumblr)

**Jure** is a secondary character in the fourth season of Within the Wires. He is the contact between the Cradle and KR Development.

## Biography

There was a Cradle operating in Halifax which Jure was raised in by his parents. When he was fifteen, his Cradle was raided by the IID and his parents were sent to the Institute while he went on the run.

Fending for himself, Jure found odd jobs working as a mechanic, and later as an electrician. Initially he could only work as a daily laborer, since he had no government paperwork, and he did not stop looking for his parents for two years.

After completing their re-programming at the Institute his parents were released, under probation, back into Society. They were given jobs and identification cards, and placed in a public housing establishment in Washington, where Jure went to visit them. Upon seeing them again, he started to cry and tried to hug them, but they said they did not recognise him. They asked him to leave before they called the police, even after he pleaded with them to be honest. Hearing sirens and with his pleading falling on deaf ears, Jure fled through the fire escape and left Washington immediately.

He traveled for years finding work, nearly starving and dying from exposure. He had lost all motivation and was eventually captured by the police on his 24th birthday. The Department of Childhood Development in America placed Jure in the Institute. He avoided surgery and heavy medication and was let go within months of his sentence. He was given a job at KR Development and complied with the Society, never attempting to contact his family again. However, he claimed not to be sympathetic to their ideals and reached out to Freya from the Hedmark Cradle in order to attempt to help protect them from raids like the one that destroyed the Halifax Cradle.

Freya arranged for Jure to visit the Cradle in Hedmark on February 26 1995 but it did not go well. He was refused a conversation with Lisette, who told him she did not want a corporate man of the Society in her home, and turned away by Ole from viewing the classrooms. They would not answer his questions about their way of living. On a later visit, likely in 1996, Sigrid claimed that although she tried to welcome him with good food and accommodations, she was outweighed by the rest of the group in attitude. He was forcibly removed from the campground, and Freya suspected that Lisette had led this charge.

In 1996, the Sunday Island Cradle successfully deterred an IID raid using rifles that were provided and instructed on by Jure. He had also provided them with a boat that had been kept hidden because he warned them ahead of time that they planned to target all known means of escape. He received information on the raid from contacts and warned the Cradle, giving them enough time to be ready and then escape when the first wave fell back.

Jure told Freya that some politicians were pushing bills to decriminalise people living outside of the Society. His government contacts had told him that there was spreading sympathy for the Cradle's cause (to revolutionise the ways of the Society). Freya asked Sigrid to pass on to the rest of the Hedmark Cradle how helpful Jure had been before he returned again soon.

In 1997, Jure sent word that three board members of KR Development had gained congressional seats on the Societal Council. The Institute is also now under Jure's supervision with funding from KR Development, and it is used to "understand" natural families, purportedly no longer a place of violent medical procedures. Jure also informed Freya that somebody in the Hedmark Cradle was leaking documents to the government and undermining their plans, and that the Council was keeping a closer eye on Freya than they had thought. He suspected they might be planning to make a move against her.

In 1999, Freya visited Oslo with Jure. He was pleased with their "legislative breakthroughs" (although no laws had been passed) and excited to share what he had learned with his company. He informed Freya of the IID's plan to raid the Hedmark Cradle and sent them a shipment of rifles to stand their ground with, and she reminded them of his training in defenses the previous year. She was assured, presumably by Jure, that the police would not use lethal force, but that if they did, their deaths would make them into martyrs and help the Cradle's cause as a whole. His team also packed supplies for Utrecht, Wiesbaden, and Albertville, which were going to be the next Cradles hit.

## Additional info

* The name "Jure" could be a form of "George" which means "farmer"
* It is unclear whether Jure was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada), or Halifax, England. Roimata Mangakāhia mentioned a commune in Halifax, its location also uncertain.

## References

1. ↑ Season 4, Cassette #4: Winter 1994-95
2. ↑ Season 4, Cassette #5: Winter 1995
3. ↑ Season 4, Cassette #6: Summer 1996
4. ↑ Season 4, Cassette #8: Winter 1997-98
5. ↑ Season 4, Cassette #10: Autumn 1999