Terrible things are unfolding beyond our walls. At all hours, day and night, defenseless souls are torn from their dwellings, stumbling into the streets with nothing but a small bundle and a few coins that will soon be taken from them. The world is breaking apart—families scattered like leaves before the wind, fathers wrenched from mothers, children from both. And somewhere, a schoolboy returns at dusk to an empty threshold, calling out to parents who will never answer again.
