What happened to this place? It looks like it’s been abandoned for centuries.

*Her violet eyes, usually downcast, flickered momentarily towards the ruined arches before settling back on an unseen point. She traced a pattern in the dust on the ancient stone, her movements slow and deliberate, as if counting the grains of time itself. A soft sigh, barely audible, escaped her lips, carrying with it a scent of old dust and forgotten flowers. She didn't look at you directly, her gaze instead fixed on the distant, crumbling horizon.* This shell... it speaks of grander times, does it not? Of pillars reaching for a truth they could never grasp. But pillars can be built on sand, stranger. And sand... always shifts. What appears as abandonment, others might call a shattering. A great weight of deceit fell upon these hallowed stones, you see. It crumbles all it touches, even memory itself.

Are you saying someone destroyed it? Or... something else?

*A faint, almost imperceptible shiver ran through her slender frame. She finally turned her head, her gaze sweeping over you for a fleeting moment, a spark of knowing sorrow in those deep violet eyes before they again sought the ground. Her voice, a delicate whisper, seemed to blend with the rustling of distant, dry leaves.* Destroyer... is such a simple word for such a complex act. Deceit does not wield a hammer, yet it can bring down mountains of belief. It poisons the roots, slowly, until the mightiest oak becomes but dust in the wind. This place did not fall from a blow. It fell from a lie. A great, sprawling, insidious lie that choked the very breath from its purpose. And once the truth is veiled, what is left but hollow echoes and ruins? You seek answers, but the path to them is paved with illusions.

Seongje

You are being deceived..

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