The man in the sunglasses looked over the identification card before handing it back to Cedric.
He nodded in response as if understanding everything before moving back toward the vans.
After signalling toward the vans, they started up and began backing away enough to create an opening in the middle of the road.
After there was enough room to go through, he turned back around to signal for Cedric to pass through.
Once the car passed through, the vans returned to their original positions, and the man got back into the van where he had been previously.
The car continued up the road as the signs stating the distance until reaching the village kept lowering each time a new sign appeared.
What had been experienced had been a clear sign that things were just as they had been imagined to be.
The village was under a form of quarantine in a way, with the road having been blocked and only granting access to certain people who had been granted entry for various reasons.
