The crisis had been averted, but there was more work to be done.
The injured required recuperation; someone had to handle the reparations; the frightened residents of the territory had to be pacified; the production work at the camp had to be put back on track again.
The first thing Gawain did was to gather all those blood-red skeletons that had accumulated outside the camp, the mountain pass, and the mountain path. He had used up nearly a third of the manpower to transport those remains back to the camp before they disintegrated. They then stacked the remains at the southern bank of the White River, stacking up a fearsome mountain of skeletons near the sawmill.
