The hours dragged on as Ren and Luna threaded through the secret passage Kiyomi had shown him. The earthquake that she spoke off, Ren was familiar with, it happened when he was 16, and it was said that many people had died. And though the duke of the nation gave a Public speech, expressing his heartfelt sadness, he refused to do anything about the roads. He never gave a reason, but many people believed it was because Karnak never gave anything to the empire.
Gave anything in such a sense that they never had any youth awakened. It was a town of normal people. Those were the rumours that spread around, but delicate whispers said otherwise, they said that the town was notorious for hiding its awakened youths. Out of fear that the empire would turn them into mindless zombies.
Karnak was forgotten. The people cried for help and mercy, but the empire only gave them deaf eyes and blind eyes. Leading to the eventual ruin and habitation of monsters.
