But back to the affairs of boring life. By lunchtime the next day, Macarius could not come, because of the hype that was going on in the city. He generally could not appear until a week later. It turns out that he was beaten by the guard because he did not have anything of value. Even the wife, and she, feeling the danger of rape, fled on a boat to the sea. These high-moral defenders of civilians not only beat him and took the donated gift, but seeing that there was nothing more to take, they made a terrible pogrom, at the end of which his dilapidated hovel was burned. So that he now has nowhere to live, except in a boat. And for all this he apologized and, almost crying, asked him to forgive, that he forced himself to wait. A good artist is difficult to find at the present time, so it was decided to keep it to himself, by itself - loaded with work. He and his wife were given a separate room, the blessing that the house was spacious, and dedicated to the rules of conduct. First of all it concerned hygiene. Strange as it may seem, they did not cause any surprise at these rules and they normally merged into the general stream. As new servants of the Baron, they were sewn new clothes and shoes of good material, and, after recovering slightly, after the incident, they began with a special zeal to work. Especially worth noting is a small episode where our hero showed some concern for his charges. It would be completely wrong to leave the situation of senseless beating of the people he needed to some extent with some kind of shantrap, so, as a result of several walks, a list of all the participants of that unsuccessful inspection of the Makarius hut was drawn up. Of course, they were faced with an unenviable fate, since without knowing it, they crossed the road to a very dangerous man. As a result, they all, in turn, were abducted and with the cut tendons left in a small gorge near Athens. There usually nobody looked, but, just in case, that they could not give any testimony, they all were gouged out and the language was cut off. Whatever you say, justice is never elegant and aesthetic. Usually she looks like a well-pumped lady with an ax in her hands, which are smeared with blood in the elbow. In general, the trust of the creative family was deserved. It is also worth mentioning the fact that Makarius was presented to Zinon, who promised to bring ready shields of the detachment that his brother was preparing for the next month to be refined by the artist. In addition to the patches, his wife was contracted for sewing a cotta in the colors of the baron, who were to wear over armor both his riders and the crossbowmen of Demeter. And since the set in the crossbowmen squad was already completed, then with the shields the sizes of each soldier were to come individually, of course - with the tolerances for the armor. Eric was very much in favor of tidiness and uniformity in his troops. In general, he was lucky with the artistic part. True, not only with her. The appearance in the team of Ulrich greatly helped in the equipment of the children, as it could be separated from combat training for two to three hours a day to be used in the smithy. He did not do anything particularly difficult, but he helped me very much with the preparations. So in early August, sets of mirrors and tophelms for each mounted soldier were ready, a set of equipment for the girl was ready and an additional equipment was purchased for the Germans who had joined the ranks of his detachment. There was still time, and, having freed our smith from assistance in the smithy, so that he could devote more time and effort to the military business, Eric began to manufacture uneasy shoulder pads. Of course, it was possible to make simple petals, but there was not much sense from them, so he decided to make good shoulder-straps with a covering up to the elbow as Gothic, but with more significant shoulders, having small vertical petals that cover the neck. Quite a complicated design, but it was worth it. He decided that this unnecessary item of equipment should be provided to all who will have time. But the desire to have the best equipment in the detachment did its job, so that on October 1, 1199 such devices were for everyone except Morrigan.