[Realm: Álfheimr]
[Location: Dominion of Oz]
[Winkie Country]
"How terrible..." The words left Paimon's lips in little more than a whisper.
She stood almost completely still as she looked across the ruined settlement, her expression subdued by what lay before them.
Mikoto did not feel the same uneasiness.
He could understand where her discomfort was coming from, however. He simply did not share it in quite the same way. His red eyes moved steadily across the remains, taking in the details.
They had finally found traces of life.
But they were only traces.
There was no movement anywhere around them. No voices or signs of someone having recently passed through. Nothing that suggested the settlement had survived in any meaningful sense.
Only evidence that people had once lived here.
