The construction work started at 8 a.m. after everyone finished breakfast and ended at 5 p.m., since it became too dark to continue anything safely after that.
Gideon usually began his day at 7 am by checking the system, and the first thing he always looked at was the number of Glowbats killed during the night.
The count continued to increase, and it was becoming increasingly obvious why. The growing population inside the Cinders of Dusk was drawing more attention.
On his first night, there had only been about twenty corpses.
Now, it has risen to eighty-five.
That alone was worrying, but what concerned him more was the change in their size. Not all of them had grown, but the number of larger Glowbats was steadily increasing.
'I wonder if this barrier will eventually gain a feature to mask people's heat,' he thought as he looked out at the scattered corpses.
The food supply workers were already moving the bodies, chatting among themselves about their works they worked.
