Chapter 56 - The harsh reality of the forgotten

Flavio decided to build a common grave memorial for the Caribs killed in his fortress, those in charge of that construction would be the captured slaves this so that they will be engraved in the subconscious that fighting the empire was a bad option that would only lead them to destruction.

Another thing that Flavio did was create platoons of 5 soldiers for what he called "Mures Inclusi Essent Venandi" (Rat Hunt), his mission was to find Caribs who had survived or escaped to force them to work as slaves, they also had the mission to map the terrain.

All the maps collected will be integrated into a large map that covers the entire "Equorum Insulae".

While the legion was busy mapping and hunting rats, Flavio spent time with his family on the beautiful beaches offered by the Caribbean.

Amancio the main tribune of Flavio was traveling through one of the abandoned towns of the Caribs, despite seeing it countless times has not been able to adapt to see skin human flesh used as animal leather.

The soldiers searched the village for something of value until they found in a hole an underground prison where there was a child with fish features, who seemed to be dying of starvation.

The soldiers quickly took the child out of the cage and the military doctor who was traveling with them gave him some food, while he analyzed if he could survive, in the cage they did not find any other thing or person.

Neither the soldiers nor Amancio reacted contrary to the child who had fish features, due to the rules that exist in the empire, found nothing more valuable and took the child to the main barracks to receive treatment from a pediatrician.

Some squads began to return from their respective missions with boys and girls who shared the same traits as those found by Amancio, some were in better condition and others were one step closer to death.

Flavio looked at the little ones whose eyes were dead as if they had long ago lost their purpose to live, Hellena also looked at them and could see her situation that she had lived many years ago, she clenched her fists and looked at her husband "I know not I must intervene Flavio but I hate to see children with those eyes, can you do something for them? "

Flavio looked at his wife and held her to his chest while stroking his hair. "Investigate thoroughly but you know very well that the laws of the empire are specially made to guarantee the survival of the new generations, the smile of the children will return, do not worry about it"

Hellena, comforted by her husband's words, nodded her head.

Amancio received the Emperor's order to question the captured Caribs to find out what these children with fish features were and why they were locked in cages.

The words they said were raw to whether the books on the conquest of the Caribs would describe it

"The Mohan shamans had much more direct contact with the god Amalivaca, therefore they could make the rules of the place where they were, this meant that they could have relations with any woman of the tribe regardless of whether she was married or not.

The fruit of these relationships was similar to the Semihumans with the difference that children were born with a fish feature, the Mohan despised these children for being creatures against the great god Amalivaca, therefore, they were locked in underground cages where they were given eat waste.

Sometimes they were allowed to interact with the tribe to prevent them from going wild because after many tests they realized that if they do not grow in "society" they will lose their human traits to become beings completely dominated by their instincts.

In those cases they could only be killed and thrown away from the tribe so that they would not contaminate the space, the Caribs did not eat their meat because they did not consider them worthy and also because they were children of the Mohan.

What they did do was to occupy them as toys for the adults of the tribe, that was the only direct human contact they had.

When the tribes were reunited by the Mohan shamans they left the children to their fate without caring if they lived or died because as beings who were against the great god Amalivaca they only took care of them to be well with the Mohán and their pleasure.

After they met with the Mohán to escape they left these children drifting, many died of hunger and others ate what they found to survive until they were rescued by the soldiers of the empire ... "

Flavio could only sigh for the cruelty existing in this era where the law of the strongest is directed to the majority of the peoples of humanity, but at least now that they are in the hands of the empire their future will improve without having to suffer again abuses of some kind.

The weeks passed and the rat hunt had searched every corner of the island, they managed to catch some Caribbean hermits who took refuge in the jungle, they did not worship the religion of Amalivaca, so they fled from their tribes to avoid being eaten.

Flavio decided to let them return to the empire where they could describe with great detail what life is like in a tribe of cannibals.

Thanks to the efforts of Flavio to preserve the memory of how the enemies of Rome live, in the future the biggest book of morbid sold in the empire is "Life of a Caribbean" where the story of these hermits described how they were killing the humans as cattle to eat them and use their skins to cover their bodies, also describes the abuses committed against children and women by Mohan shamans and of the same tribe, the Caribbean in Nova Rome was seen as a demon thanks to these stories, women loved their children if they behaved badly, a caribe would eat them.