Outside Tbilisi in the Ottoman Empire, a group of refugees was fleeing toward the Caucasus. Along the way, people kept shouting, "Hurry, hurry! The Ottomans are about to catch up!"
Someone suddenly cried out, "Oh no! Someone's collapsed!"
At the same time, a burst of crying rose up. The one who had collapsed was a middle-aged woman who had joined them midway, bringing along two children.
The older one was already eleven or twelve, while the younger was only three or four. The woman had carried them all this way on her back. When she suddenly collapsed, the children fell from her back and began wailing.
Victor Kisis, who was nearby, rushed over at once upon hearing the news. After checking her over, he sighed. "She can't be saved. Her oil has run dry and her lamp has gone out."
Such things had happened far too often on the road of flight. Everyone had already grown numb to them.
Victor Kisis hardened his heart and said, "Take the children. We keep moving!"
Two soldiers quickly placed the younger child onto a cart. The older child obediently followed the main group as they continued onward.
That was right—this band of refugees consisted of citizens of the Three Peoples United Kingdom. After suffering massacres at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, they had begun their flight.
Victor Kisis had become the leader of this group. As one of the founding figures who had survived the great uprising in Constantinople, he had now become the leader of the Armenian People's Party and the provisional president of the Three Peoples United Kingdom.
This party was currently the most powerful revolutionary organization among the Armenians, and it also possessed an armed force of more than twenty thousand men. The People's Party's platform was to overthrow