"Why don't you all enter any government zones?" Ayen had always been straight to the point.
This might catch them off guard, but whether to ask in circles or directly, they would still feel that way.
The two thought Ayen was about to ask something more important, but it was only this trivial question. This was actually easy to answer and understand.
"It's not that we don't want to. But we can't." Genea actually grew up in a nearby yellow zone with others.
It was not that the small villages or settlements like theirs sprang up because they did not want to be governed or anything. It was more of that the circumstances did not allow them to.
The nearest zone around the village was a red zone. There was not any yellow, let alone a green zone. The last yellow zone, where they came from, was already destroyed.
