City Titan, The Western Quarantine Camp
With those tasks handled in the frozen lochs of Scotland, Ragnar stood upon the elevated command platform overlooking the vast quarantine perimeter that now housed forty-one thousand defeated Tang soldiers. Thousands of exhausted prisoners shuffled in disorganized clusters, their once-proud lamellar armor hanging in filthy tatters, while Viking overseers shouted orders in Norse that fell upon ears that could not comprehend a single syllable.
