Burden (5)

They quickly quietened down.

So I announced firmly, "We will depart in exactly five days. So, please calm down and take a good rest. In the meantime, form a group of at least ten people first, then gather ten groups to form 100, then the 100 member groups join to form 1,000, and lastly a team of 10,000 encompassing all the teams. However, if you oppress or use threats to form a group, I will leave you behind. I hope you can be wise enough to include the children and elderly in your group, so I won't desert you because I got annoyed by the composition of your team."

Of course, I could speak to them a little more gently, or I could encourage or praise them.

But I was not here on a fun picnic with 10,000 people. I needed to escape this place teeming with monsters. So, I decided that it's better to take a tough stance toward them.