I wasn't quite sure what happened after that. Between putting on the strange blindfold and being asked to take it off, everything in that span felt like a gap carved out of my memory. One moment I was tying it behind my head, and the next, someone was telling me to remove it.
When I pulled the blindfold from my eyes, I found myself standing in a ruin.
Not a building. A city… An entire city, hollowed out and rotting, abandoned for over a decade at the very least. Collapsed roofs sagged into the streets. Walls had crumbled into heaps that nature was slowly swallowing. The air smelled of old stone and something faintly acrid, like burnt metal left too long in the rain.
