We find Lieutenant Sorn Brandts organizing the troops to care for the death camp survivors.
THE GOD GAMES: Legend of Kor...Chapter Twenty
Lieutenant Brandts sent for Gog's soldiers and told them to find buckets, brooms, and mops to clean the floors, walls, and beds in all of the barracks. Gog's men turned to immediately.
Lieutenant Brandts went to Bond and explained the execrable conditions they had found. Bond radioed the ladies to see how far out they were, and they said about a half an hour. Miriam got on the radio and asked for the bottom line.
"There are thousands of dead bodies. No sanitary conditions. The prisoners are very close to death and are suffering."
"O.K.," said Miriam. "Cook up huge pots of sugar beets. Let them get very mushy. Save all of the juice, we are going to need a lot of it."
"O.K.," said Bond, "it shall be done immediately."
Pots of sugar beets were put on the stoves in the kitchen. The cellar holding the beets was uncovered by one of Wills' men, and they would have enough until Adam's food trucks came to the camps.
When the ladies arrived by truck, they immediately went to see the first barrack. Dr. Lucy Prism started on the first bed and worked through to the last. She first discovered those Wales who had passed on, and had Gog's soldiers remove them immediately. Then she ordered their bed areas to be scrubbed with antiseptic and made-up with sheets and blankets that they had brought. She then ordered each member of the Special Force's unit to wash the bodies of each prisoner and place private wear and clean robes on each person. Afterwards, they were to put that person in one of the beds that had been cleaned, and cover them with a quilt. She had each soldier feed their Wale patients either a quarter cup of mashed sugar beets or a half cup of sugar beet juice. In moments, the sugar beets blessed the poor Wales with an absence of pain and a heart of joy.
Dr. Prism went from one prisoner to the next and took samples of their sputum, urine, and bowels, and had Miriam take blood samples. She set up a crude lab in the current hospital barracks that were used only by the Selves, and as soon as the data became available, she began to administer antibiotics to the poor Wales.
Dr. Prism asked what the inmates had been eating and she finally ferreted out that the answer ranged from nothing, to a weak cabbage soup and piece of bread. She ordered sugar beets every hour and a soup made of fish and kelp to be spoon fed to each patient by the Special Forces person in charge of that patient, three times a day.
The bucket latrines were emptied and Gog's men were set to digging 200 outhouses around the camp.
When Veral rose the next morning and there was light everywhere, they were able to get a good count of the Wale prisoners. There were 10,000 Wales in the prison in various states of health. Some were still being worked as slaves until their bodies gave out and they could no longer leave their beds. There were stages of starvation. A workingman received watery cabbage soup and a piece of bread a day, while a man who cannot work receives nothing. "They are there to die anyway, so why feed them?" had been one of Gog's favorite sayings.
The Special Forces oversaw the Gog soldiers as they scrubbed out all of the barracks. Gog's men struggled to clean the barracks, in between having to run outside to vomit themselves, and wished heartily that they had never let it get so bad. Cleaning the barracks was a punishment that they well deserved.
Alice and I went from patient to patient finding out every person's name, and names of relatives, and where they came from in Wale. The Wale prisoners had six-number tattoos on their right hands to match them to records made to Gog's surprisingly rigid standards.
We decided we would match all of the numbers on the dead corpses of Wales to Gog's records so we could at least let their relatives know of their passing. We were soon to find that everybody that was cremated was checked off in Gog's logbooks by name and number.
Glenna and Molly oversaw the nursing of each of the patients. They showed the Special Forces soldiers how to use reflexology, massaging the prisoner's feet and legs, to help ease their pain and build up their immune systems.
THE GOD GAMES: Legend of Kor...Chapter Twenty
Lieutenant Brandts sent for Gog's soldiers and told them to find buckets, brooms, and mops to clean the floors, walls, and beds in all of the barracks. Gog's men turned to immediately.
Lieutenant Brandts went to Bond and explained the execrable conditions they had found. Bond radioed the ladies to see how far out they were, and they said about a half an hour. Miriam got on the radio and asked for the bottom line.
"There are thousands of dead bodies. No sanitary conditions. The prisoners are very close to death and are suffering."
"O.K.," said Miriam. "Cook up huge pots of sugar beets. Let them get very mushy. Save all of the juice, we are going to need a lot of it."
"O.K.," said Bond, "it shall be done immediately."
Pots of sugar beets were put on the stoves in the kitchen. The cellar holding the beets was uncovered by one of Wills' men, and they would have enough until Adam's food trucks came to the camps.
When the ladies arrived by truck, they immediately went to see the first barrack. Dr. Lucy Prism started on the first bed and worked through to the last. She first discovered those Wales who had passed on, and had Gog's soldiers remove them immediately. Then she ordered their bed areas to be scrubbed with antiseptic and made-up with sheets and blankets that they had brought. She then ordered each member of the Special Force's unit to wash the bodies of each prisoner and place private wear and clean robes on each person. Afterwards, they were to put that person in one of the beds that had been cleaned, and cover them with a quilt. She had each soldier feed their Wale patients either a quarter cup of mashed sugar beets or a half cup of sugar beet juice. In moments, the sugar beets blessed the poor Wales with an absence of pain and a heart of joy.
Dr. Prism went from one prisoner to the next and took samples of their sputum, urine, and bowels, and had Miriam take blood samples. She set up a crude lab in the current hospital barracks that were used only by the Selves, and as soon as the data became available, she began to administer antibiotics to the poor Wales.
Dr. Prism asked what the inmates had been eating and she finally ferreted out that the answer ranged from nothing, to a weak cabbage soup and piece of bread. She ordered sugar beets every hour and a soup made of fish and kelp to be spoon fed to each patient by the Special Forces person in charge of that patient, three times a day.
The bucket latrines were emptied and Gog's men were set to digging 200 outhouses around the camp.
When Veral rose the next morning and there was light everywhere, they were able to get a good count of the Wale prisoners. There were 10,000 Wales in the prison in various states of health. Some were still being worked as slaves until their bodies gave out and they could no longer leave their beds. There were stages of starvation. A workingman received watery cabbage soup and a piece of bread a day, while a man who cannot work receives nothing. "They are there to die anyway, so why feed them?" had been one of Gog's favorite sayings.
The Special Forces oversaw the Gog soldiers as they scrubbed out all of the barracks. Gog's men struggled to clean the barracks, in between having to run outside to vomit themselves, and wished heartily that they had never let it get so bad. Cleaning the barracks was a punishment that they well deserved.
Alice and I went from patient to patient finding out every person's name, and names of relatives, and where they came from in Wale. The Wale prisoners had six-number tattoos on their right hands to match them to records made to Gog's surprisingly rigid standards.
We decided we would match all of the numbers on the dead corpses of Wales to Gog's records so we could at least let their relatives know of their passing. We were soon to find that everybody that was cremated was checked off in Gog's logbooks by name and number.
Glenna and Molly oversaw the nursing of each of the patients. They showed the Special Forces soldiers how to use reflexology, massaging the prisoner's feet and legs, to help ease their pain and build up their immune systems.
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