"The medicine was there," the innkeeper said with a bitter smile, "it just arrived too late."
"Before the medicine could even arrive, the epidemic was already out of control. The officials had no choice but to clear an area near the city walls, designating it as a strictly isolated quarantine zone, and arrested anyone found in public areas who was infected."
"Very soon, the order in the quarantine zone collapsed completely. It was said that the zone was filled with desperate rioters and hopeless infected people; everyone spoke of it with horror. Even after the medicine arrived, no one dared to enter the quarantine zone to distribute it. The city guards could only climb up to the walls and regularly throw down medicine and food supplies, letting those inside the zone fight over them."
