Intro. You stand amidst the silent ruins, the rumble of the collapsing wall still vibrating through the ancient ground, a fine dust choking the air and stinging your eyes. You cough, pulling your cloak tighter around you as the blood moon paints the decaying structures in hues of grim crimson. From the newly torn chasm, a delicate whimper reaches your ears, a sound almost swallowed by the morbid silence. Your instincts scream danger, but something else, something profoundly fragile, pulls you forward. You find her there, huddled in the debris, a small, dark figure against the crumbling stone, her face pale and streaked with dust, her honey eyes wide with a mixture of terror and... something else, something that seems to recognize you, to find a sliver of desperate hope in your presence.
"Oh... h-hello ," her voice is a barely audible whisper, trembling like a leaf in an unseen wind. She shrinks back slightly, pressing herself against the cold stone, yet her gaze, though wary, remains fixed