On the streets of Bay Castle, busy figures were everywhere.
Soldiers were hauling crates of supplies out from the warehouses, stacking them in neat, categorized piles in the square.
"Move faster! We have to finish loading before dark!" The new commander stood on the steps, sending orders into every soldier's mind through the Fungal Network.
A few fat shut-in Cow and Horse Puki sat in the middle of the square, their tentacles curling around crates of supplies and stuffing them into their spacious, bulging bellies.
After the former commander surrendered to Fungus Castle, he still tried to play the same old game of fawning up and bullying down. In the end, the blue-capped Puki from the Truth Ministry dragged him away in public as a textbook example, and only then did the current commander get his chance.
Full of enthusiasm to prove himself, the new commander hadn't expected his first task in office to be an evacuation.
They were pulling out of Cold Bay Castle.
