Book 6 Chapter 8.5 - The Rising Sun is Also Dark

Baskets of underripe fruits were already piled up in the massive conference room, the conference room’s large door temporarily closed. The slaves who transported the crops piled the fully loaded vine baskets in front of the official residence’s small plaza. Every thirty minutes, the door to the conference room would be opened again, and then the slaves outside the door would pour into the conference room, removing the empty baskets with the fastest speed possible, and then moving a similar amount of fruit baskets inside. When a sufficient amount of fruits were moved into the conference room, they would withdraw and firmly shut the door.

The tables and chairs in the conference room had long been cleared out, only...