Imperial Calendar, November 4th, 1444.
The end has come for the fleas.
Hundreds of Black Hat Army soldiers marched in neat rows to the new camp and took control of all the main thoroughfares.
Along with them came various brooms, shovels, and wicker baskets.
Under the urging of the old Legion Commander and the newly appointed Ten Households Leader, the refugees were forced to rise from the garbage heaps and numbly line up outside.
Led by the black-robed citizens of the Gulag Old Camp, nearly a thousand refugees were brought to the creek.
Beside the creek were piles of firewood and nearly three hundred abandoned or salvaged broken wine barrels and water tanks from the ruins.
These were all prepared by Casti at Horn's behest.
Water from the creek was hauled ashore and poured into those large wooden barrels and tanks, the scalding water giving off wafts of white steam.
As for the female refugees, they were placed elsewhere.
