212 In Pursuit Of A Shadow

Out beyond the isolated birdcages that life hid within nowadays, a frightful, alien world flourished in the detritus of the old world. It was a world of prolonged silence, stillness, and death intensely antithetical to anything that moved. The Infestation had spared not a single thing in the aftermath of the Great War. 

They had spared not even the smallest forms of life. The entire planet had been methodically sterilized, all the way down to the tiniest bacterium on the smallest pebble. 

"Just look at it... Completely stripped of its flesh and poisoned down to the bone," said Lu'um quietly as she gazed at her homeworld with a pitiful expression. "There's nothing left of my home except the decaying ruins of my people's former cities. And even they have begun to crumble into dust over the course of untold eons."