"Wha...What happened to the ships in the port? How could all of them be destroyed?" The people who were rushing to the port to make an escape were baffled.
What greets them is littered with dead bodies, a blazing fire and a wrecked ship. With the port rendered useless, so does their hope. And with greater hope, so does the despair.
They're now trapped inside, waiting to be slaughtered. Children begin to cry as their fathers tightly hold them. Wives break into tears hoping nothing bad would happen to them.
"No, there's still hope!" said one of them. He rekindles the light in people's eyes with four words.
"Stop it, kid. Aren't all routes blocked?" A middle-aged man gives a lifeless reply. Looking at the current situation, it doesn't seem promising for him.
"Let's break into the castle. That's the safest place for us now since we can't get out. The soldiers are there to protect the nobles."
