Stronghold Crusader Unit Stats 〈Trusted〉

The cost had been real. Towers were scarred; granaries were lighter. Men who had once joked about seasons now counted scars. But the city stood, stubborn as the dunes that fed it. Around a low fire, Yusuf and Karim and the spearmen who had held the gates counted the living and the lost, and Salim wrote the day's tally into the ledger he kept not out of superstition but because numbers taught him how to protect what remained.