Moonspear And I looked down into the end of the world and saw the beast

He wondered, often, about the road that he tread and the places that sprouted around him. He wondered now about the crater and what it had been before; if this was a healthy place, a holy place, or something inhospitable made better in the wake of the ruin. He was thinking to himself now like a scholar might, or an archaeologist, as a ghost materialized near to him. The sound of her warning made one ear pivot and then, with a swing of his head, Raimo focused his eyes upon her.

For a moment she was not familiar, but he was distracted. His musings became a fiction within his own head, except that muted immediately upon seeing those narrowed eyes. His tongue flicked across his lips and then up across his nose, nostrils flaring.

You are the moonkeeper's daughter, he remembered.

She was far from her village. Perhaps it no longer stood strong? He did not ask, though the desire to know was strong within him. Raimo did not move; he did not think she had the right to send him away, or the strength, and besides he posed no threat to her in the moment — he was invested in his hunt for knowledge.

What happened to this place? Did she know? (A better question would be: would she share the secret to this place if she did?)