While the 250 unemployed inhabitants of the City of Waters traveled between this town and the Dry City, visiting the territory of Minos and then returning, the young Stuart was waiting quietly in the Cromwell Kingdom.
During the days that had passed, Minos had sent the two youths who were with him to the Spatial Kingdom while they waited for the soldiers to return from their missions. They had already known everything that was in the City of Waters, and at the moment, they were just waiting for those soldiers to finish their trip.
Minos believed that after this initial contact with those 250 people, the Black Plain would succeed in recruiting the first group for the Dry City. They would be sufficient to create an interest in another 1,250 people, who would most likely try to contact Minos' forces.