Forbidden unity

The Adingale Ruins

The land was growing hotter and hotter. The grass seemed to struggle with growing as there was very little rain. The drought was worsening as the summer progressed forward.

The animals were fighting to find food and water and shade. The water itself was slowly beginning to vanish under the intense heat of the sun.

Arguyas and Allura had been traveling for weeks already. Their journey to locate the Adingale ruins and uncover the location of the GladeShire forge was proving more and more fruitless as time went on. Allura had very few memories of Adingale, let alone where it was located. It didn't hold much of a memory to anyone anymore since the wars.

The sun continued to beat down on Allura and Arguyas backs. It seemed as though it would melt the very clothes from their backs. Arguyas canteen had ran out of water several miles back and his throat was growing dry, and beginning to burn with intense thirst. He wouldn't say so to Allura, as he did not want her to worry, and he definitely wasn't going to take any of her water.

He only hid that fact for so long when he felt the corners of his vision grow darker and darker. His knees buckled out from under him and he dropped to the earth losing all consciousness as the heat finally got to him.

Allura gasped as she saw him collapse. "Arguyas!" She knelt down beside him and opened her canteen and started to give him as much water as she could to try and cool him down.

Worry spread all over her face as she did everything she could to help revive him of the heat that had taken him over.
He groaned and slowly sat up looking at her. "I'm sorry...I didn't feel it would be fair to take any water from you." He spoke softly rubbing his head.
Allura glared and smacked his arm in frustration. "Id rather you be alive! Don't you ever scare me like that again!"

Arguyas smiled softly. "I'm terribly sorry. I'll be sure to watch myself from now on." He told her as he slowly got up on wobbling legs. 

She shook her head in disappointment before moving ahead. "We shouldn't be too far away now." She announced seeing a small black shape in the distance along with several scattered stones laying about them. 

Soon the ruins of Adingale came into view before them. The castle stood to a point but with the roof caved in and walls missing in many places. The bricks were singed and charred from the fires. 

The walls around the city were torn down into piles of rubble and bones. Stains of blood covered the rubble around the wall. The grass was ashen and dead and the sky was grey and mournful as it looked upon the lost city below it. 

Emotions flooded over Allura as she looked upon the ruins of what was once her home. The place she was born. Where he memories of her family began, and ultimately, ended. 

The entire city laid in ruins. Houses crumbles and splintered. Everything charred and blackened. The trees lied on their sides, nothing but dead rotting logs now. The only life that seemed to be there now were the hungry vultures and the many insects that feasted on the dying plants and trees. 

Large boulders sat in the center  of buildings within the city and left craters in the earth scattered about. Arrows littered the ground around the bones of the dead that had never been laid to rest. 

The air around them seemed to moan in agony and mourning as they walked slowly through the rubble and decay. Its as if the very universe was crying for the souls of the lost and the burning of the innocent. 

But no being on earth seemed to care. The loss of Adingale had long since become forgotten and left docile. No one even thought of the city. No one carried out its memory. No one accept Allura. This was after all her home. Even if it was reduced to waste.