The Red City.

Ruby, Vermillion, or just Red?

Celeste peeked her head out from between the folds of the wagon and saw a slumbering carmine volcano reaching the vault of the heavens. It was eyeing down within its very quintessence at the heart of the city.

“Red?” she tilted her head and went back inside.

The soldiers split into separate columns and marched through the towering gates leading to the city tinted in red.

Swoosh! Celeste peeked her head out again, followed by Selena and Hertha shortly after.

Black smoke escaped atop the red towers, resting beside the descending streams of lava that coiled down the mountain. Men in grey tunics went inside and returned, pushing a trolley fully stacked with faint blue stone the size of pebbles. They moved it inside an open compound and returned, repeating the same mundane task from dawn till dusk.