Moonlight Castle

The wagon creaked forward, its wooden wheels steadily parting the deep snow to reveal the porcelain-like roads left behind by the Umbrax. No one knew what they were made of, only that they were indestructible and countless, stretching like spiderwebs across the northern and southern continents. They don't even have names, nor do they show up on maps. Lonely, forgotten, nameless and deeply buried under snow, just like the rest of their empire.

A deep voice broke the silence from the front of the wagon. "Kazimir, it isn't true what they say, is it? That you southerners are responsible for this famine?"

Kazimir, his bronze skin glinting faintly in the pale light, looked up and sighed. "Judas, how many times do I have to tell you? How do you expect us southerners to be responsible for a continent-wide famine? If we were capable of such things, we'd have done it decades ago when your people crossed the sea and conquered our lands."

Judas, gaunt and weary, turned to lock eyes with him, his gaze sharp as if trying to pierce Kazimir's mind. Finally, he sighed. "Yeah, you're probably right. But you people used to do blood sacrifices, didn't you? Something like that could've started this famine."

Kazimir stared at him, dumbfounded. "If those blood sacrifices worked, we wouldn't have been conquered."

weeks past and the men's hunger continued to grow as did the interjecting roads.

"Kaz, how much longer till we reach the Umbrax Highway?"

"We could have reached it days ago, Judas, if you didn't insist on having the horse rest every day. The thing is already as good as dead anyway."

Judas sighed "How do you except to bring our prey back without a horse? I hope you don't expect me to pull the carriage."

"Well regardless, if my observations are correct, it should only be a couple days till we reach it."

"Only a couple days? Damm, it will be good to finally see something different than snow buried forest."

With that, the conversation ended, and the scrawny horse trudged on, pulling the wagon along Nameless roads.