Marius hits the choker with the sword and feels the grip on his neck being released. The choker'd body falls on the untidy bed and bleeds on it, twitching once or twice before becoming still.

Laurelata checks, one by one, two next buildings, which looks to be of very similar construction and, as it turns out, the purpose. These two long, rectangular buildings are constructed entirely from planks on a wooden frame, with a pitched thatched roof. Each building has two doorframes on the side of the buildings opposite the palisade, but lacks doors. Four window frames open into either side of the long walls, a few of which have no cover and others only a canvas draped across the inside. A partial view of the interior is possible from the doorways. Inside, the floors are hard-packed earth, and along the walls are wooden bunk beds. Many of the pallet beds are covered with blankets that now gather dust. Those beds have sacks or tied bundles of clothes sitting at their feet. So far, Laurelata did not checks the barracks from the inside, but even from outside, she notices some activity under a bed of the north-western barrack.