"Ulduvai was not the only one of our cities that sailed the skies..." Maia said, her tone soft and filled with sadness. "Others fell to conquest, monsters, disease, and other terrible events. Ulduvai was the last. Perhaps you learned of the others. Though...if this disaster you speak of is something you learned from your studies here, then yes. You're absolutely right. It's no surprise that it is a mystery to you because it happened so suddenly. I remember my 'death'."<br/><br/>She frowned deeply and felt her eyes begin to grow teary. Not even centuries could erase those terrible moments from her. "The death of my innocence. When chaos was unleashed in the city, it warped the bodies of us all and turned us into indescribable beasts. Ever-changing, rotting forms filled with teeth and eyes and intestines and tentacles..." She shuddered in disgust. "Have you ever gone hungry? Imagine that a thousand times over, filling every inch of your body. Hunger, confusion, thirst, anger...every negative feeling you can think of. They kill and eat anything in sight just for a moment of reprieve."<br/><br/>"Even though my father's magic freed me from the curse, I still have nightmares of being devoured by my cursed form nearly every night. Still have nightmares of roaming as a twisted creature." She opened her mouth to say more, but then finally quieted herself as she started to realize that perhaps she was giving too much away to people she didn't entirely trust. So lost was she in the telling of that tale, that she didn't even pick up on the ground's trembling and tumbling pebbles until then. She froze in midstep and focused to try and read the vibrations as she murmured. "You might get to put that power to the test..."