[That'd be hard to miss indeed, but Lift still looks around again just to be sure.]

...yup, definitely no crystal tower.

[Just where's this guy from there? Hard to peg down just by looks - albino Veden, maybe? He certainly talks like a lighteye.]

Maybe... maybe it got destroyed while you weren't looking? And they built these - [She gestures at the buildings] - and then THESE got destroyed too. I mean, there's was a whole lot of white nothing before we started drowning -

[She frowns, worried.]

Can the Desolation come without you noticing?

[That'd be the effective ways, sneaking up on everyone and such, but then what would be the point of fighting?]