Imperial Calendar, October 25, 1445.
The autumn wind finally dispersed the cooking smoke hanging over Joan of Arc Castle. Horn had just finished arranging Petier's work when he received news from Rapids City.
Ludvik, the current Abbot of the Blago Monastery and an elder monk of the Juanist Faction, finally arrived at his devout Joan of Arc Castle on October 25.
In the dense smoke of burning straw on both shores, three barges with a displacement of about 50 tons slowly sailed in.
These flat-bottomed boats are the most common merchant vessels on inland rivers, about 5-7 meters wide. Before they got close, Horn could already see the black pitch and pine tar smeared on the hull.
The white sails were rolled up, the long oars retracted, and the long plank extended from the side of the ship to the pier's walkway.
First to disembark were three to five monks dressed in coarse knee-length military garments, with daggers and short-handled chain hammers hanging from their waists.
