So many residents from the city and visitors from the villages surrounding Camelot had started to gather at the Winged Roost that it had gotten to the point where Sir Ector had to set up benches and built a fence around the roost. A few guards were regularly stationed nearby to keep out trespassers, though there had only been a few.
So, they don’t need to be working the fields to restore the coming harvest or readying the land to seed, rebuilding the Town Center, cleaning up the streets, rebuilding destroyed homes etc. The had so many homeless refugees come into the city before. Did everyone suddenly stop starving after the king died? Did the food shortage magically disappear? Even if they open Arthur’s stores, that food won’t last long without more being procured and added to it. Their bordering neighborhoods are at war with Rhege after just being at war with Pendarth, I’m sure they don’t have much food to spare either. Again, author makes no sense.
