They ran north through the village and it only took about forty seconds to reach the edge of the intact houses.
That was the thing about this place now. The village that used to stretch across a comfortable area with orchards and ranches and farmland on all sides had been burned down to a core. Everything outside the Totem's protection ring had been reduced to ash and charred stone months ago when the dragon attacked the first time and what was left of the "village" was really just a cluster of surviving buildings around the central square.
Eren felt it again when they passed the last standing house on the north side and stepped onto the scorched ground. The ash was old now, packed down by rain and foot traffic into a grey-white crust that crunched under his boots.
