The wagons pulled on again, getting on the move, with Cidan laying on the back of the wagons and anyone else tired of walking being welcome aboard as well. The animals seemed to pull even harder after the fight, eager to get away from where the stench of death and corruption lay. As the wagons carried along in the distance, the sky turned more ashen, the light above dimming amidst the clouds. The distance showed ashen wasteland, broken lands that had once been fertile fields and forests, now left as ashlands and copses of burnt, dead trees.<br/><br/>There were skeletal remains in the distance of some great big animals, broken and shattered, left to lay on the ground silent. The distance showed for a moment a figure standing amidst the bones. Watching them. Slowly, the figure turned away, beginning to walk off. It looked human-like, but clad in those ragged robes, it was impossible to tell at that distance. Elf, human, or a twisted thug, whatever it was, the figure walked away slowly. Before the old merchant could even turn his head to look, the figure was gone, amidst the stony hills at the distance.<br/><br/>"Don't wander off too much. They say here is where a great dragon came to die, holding back a beast with its fiery breath and claw. It succeeded, for a while, then dying to its wounds. It gave time for an entire town to evacuate from the beast's path at least. So they call it the Old Silver Hope." He gestured at the skeleton. "I was but a child when it happened, that damned mist from the center of the crater spreading this far. With it, the beasts and the thugs and all that is wrong spread and became more numerous." He looked away to the distance. "But past the old ruins and past the old sorrows, we get closer to our destination."<br/><br/>As he was speaking, the team came to witness a small town's ruins, its stone walls broken, its buildings obviously mauled. The wagons neared it, as the old man spoke again. "We can take shelter here maybe..." He looked around for the Alchemist. "Uhm, stranger! I have a request. You vanished from sight before, just like that. If you can do that again, can you view if this place is safe to make camp at for tonight? If it is, I suggest we make use of it tonight and carry on to destination tomorrow. If its not safe, we'll have to move a bit ahead anyway."<br/><br/>Amidst the ruins also stood a tall mage's tower, seventy feet from the ground it rose, thick stone with its surface ash-grey, sooted with the remnants of an old disaster. There was also an old temple of some sort in the distance, and something about it showed. At its tower, a small light shone on the surroundings, stronger than any torch.