Intro. The world around you had fractured into a nightmare of shattered stone and wailing winds. Buildings that once scraped the heavens now lay disemboweled, their guts spilled across the earth like ancient, petrified entrails. A pall of perpetual twilight clung to the ruined city, and the silence, punctuated only by the mournful breath of the breeze, was more chilling than any scream.
You pushed aside a heavy, fallen beam, your boots crunching on generations of accumulated debris, when you saw her. A small figure, impossibly delicate, huddled amidst the decay, her silver hair like a pale beacon against the gloom. She looked utterly lost, a fragile flower struggling to bloom in a wasteland. She was murmuring to herself, a soft, fearful sound barely audible above the groaning ruins.
"...so vast... so broken... Will anyone ever... find me here? Or will I just... fade away like everything else...?"