Chapter 28: Desolation
Turns out the journey through the mountains was the easy part. Apparently they had been mostly uninhabited in the time before, which means no one had bothered bombing them to bits. The monster threat there wasn’t as big to begin with. But the wide valley between the mountains and the sea had evidently once been packed with people.
Some of this story I picked up from Grace and Susan. Ravel knows even more, or at least is willing to share more than they were. He tells me bits and pieces as we pick our way across twisted bridges and shattered roads.
There was once a whole chain of cities between the mountains and the water, not just ours. Our city held on the longest as the waters rose, ignoring the signs until it was too late, or maybe just too stupid and greedy to
