Kapitel 399: Unable to cross, unable to return

//An author's note to avoid confusion: Until the two plotlines converge, they might not follow the same timeline. In other words, a week passing for Peter doesn't mean a week has passed for Banjay. And worry not, this message doesn't affect the chapter's price!//

"Smoke, you say?" Makary raised his eyes and looked right across the table and at my face. "And not big enough to be from natural causes?" 

I nodded my head as I stretched back in the chair. 

In the week that I was away, the work on the new camp progressed smoothly. 

With the injection of ten thousand fresh imperial workers, the work all around the camp sped up as if the project managers all stepped on the gas all over the camp. 

Funnily enough, even though there were still two days before the next batch of workers would be given for us to manage, the temporary housing was already all nice and cleaned, ready to receive its next residents.