Since July, all residents of the Holy Alliance have distinctly felt the approach of war.
First, there was the re-issuance of war bonds, and then the sharp rise in the prices of copper ore and sand mortar in the market.
Next, the presence of gendarmes and Cheka security forces became increasingly frequent in rural streets.
Commissioners from the Exorcism Court began inspecting warehouses, docks, and barracks along the border.
In the damp summer, the frequency of fires has increased even further.
To the older generation of the Holy Alliance, this feeling is quite familiar.
War is coming again.
Yet after sending off the Salvation Army west with hymns, the old Holy Alliance people have long been indifferent to war.
Perhaps they were also afraid, but they were not fearful.
But to the new Holy Alliance people who immigrated from Leia and Falan nearly twenty years ago, it's utterly terrifying.
