Chapter IV The Sowers -5-The city guard initiated security procedures. The entire population of the first ring was evacuated to the second and third rings. The people were frightened, their normal day activities had been abruptly halted on the guards' orders, which had taken everyone by surprise.
The blanket of fog and darkness was not visible from inside, people knew nothing, only that the city gates had been sealed and it was no longer possible to enter or leave.
Foreign visitors tried to persuade the guards at the gates, they wanted to leave the city before they were trapped inside.
The tavern-keepers, with the help of some patrons, loaded barrels of wine and provisions into carts. The town bells sounded the alarm later, and it was only then that many of the elderly realised that the
