"Don't you get it?" Elle snapped. The electricity in her palms crackled. "The point is to get away from that place!" She kept on walking, studying the buildings as they loomed closer. They definitely looked... wrecked. Ruined. The closest one - a sort of barn thing - was roofless, and beyond that was something that looked like a church with the spire ripped off.

Maybe there'd been a tornado or something. A long time ago.