murders. People disappeared in their dozens. Almost always it was people who had something to do with the leagues. Years later, their skeletons might be dug up in some nearby wood. Within the leagues, it had become the practice to dispose of unreliable and suspicious comrades without ceremony. When we heard rumours of this, it did not seem as incredible as it would have done in normal, civilised days. Indeed, the atmosphere had gradually become apocalyptic. Saviours appeared everywhere, people with long hair and hair shirts, declaring that they had been sent by God to save the world.
