The ruins (Part two)

We kept on walking. 

"Is there any reason why your mother was captured?"

I tried to mostly stick to the shadows but with all the walls and houses barely standing, it was a lot harder than I thought. 

"We," she sighed. "The people revolted. The top bunch wanted to go to war but the people didn't. And so, a revolt took place, mother led the rebels and we fell."

A war, huh?

Only people who didn't know what war truly was and just how devastating it was, were dumb enough to go out seeking it. 

"Wouldn't it have been easy for you to rescue your mother once the war broke out and-"

"Yes, it would have. But I'm afraid I'm no longer a royal guard and they will probably behead her before setting out for the battle, anyway."

It made sense. 

Anyway, this place kept getting denser and denser. 

The houses were now much closer to each other and some were larger than others. Some of the houses were even intact- kind of.