“I’d like to know more about the residents of the palace. It feels like every carefully placed stone has a story to tell.”
The guide looked at her with misty eyes, her voice choked.
“It was a city, not just a palace. Each stone speaks of dreams destroyed, to appease the ego of palace residents.”
“Who lived in the palace?”
“There are palaces across the world. Why speak of the residents only in this one? The stones reveal a pattern of destruction – a strategy to bomb some and leave some. Bunkers that failed to protect have left behind some remnants.”
Reena Saxena 
How do you check the overstretched ego of lunatics in power.? The stones describe the past as you say in your story, unfortunately the present ignores their wisdom.
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There should be a way of lunatics being overthrown from power.
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Fascinating concept – the stones themselves embodying the dreams and lives of the human beings who live there.
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Thank you, Margaret!
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Palaces seem to be places of unreality
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They send out edited stories
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Well told, Reena. 🙂
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Thank you, Bill!
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This line says it all:
“The stones reveal a pattern of destruction” Will humans ever get past their developmental stage?
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We should see it as cyclic rather than linear.
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Yes a cyclic vortex into a black hole!
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I like this gives a perspective of humanity as a whole. Well done.
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Thank you, Mason!
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So often, we forget the citizens and focus on the palaces
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Almost always so…
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