Seren
interstellar

It had been so refreshing for her to speak to another living, breathing creature. One who had mistaken her for a goddess, but Seren liked her, and when they had parted ways she had felt happier in some manner. Yet while she had walked to the Steppe, and had seen the Heart Caves, and the rolling ocean of the Endless Blue, nothing had been as relaxing as standing beneath those dancing lights. The feeling of home was so solid in her heart, it had stilled the monster in her head and brought the feeling of being alive back into her soul.

Something that been so lost for so long.

It was your own fault, yet the monster speaks, Seren closing her eyes as she walked to try to shut it out. She ignores it, ignoring that thing that tells her how she will never find anything she wants.

That she'll never be happy.

You never will be, you don't deserve it for what you did, and Seren's teeth grind as she stops, ducking her head and pushing it away. I don't need you, she speaks to herself, I don't need you get out!

She rushes forward in a sudden movement, unplanned and stupid all at once, and it was in this flurry that Seren's head struck a low branch, not realising she had come into a little forest, a grove, and a place she had not been. Her eyes opened wide as she felt the bark bite into her skin, tearing little holes in it's path, but this was no pain to her – nothing had been like the searing blood of the mad god, that burned her face and took her sight in her left eye.

Calming herself, ignoring her own mind, Seren stepped neatly through the trees now, her abrupt behaviour forgotten, as she slipped down to the water's edge to have a drink. The water was soothing to her, cold and wonderful. She was oblivious at the moment to the serenity of this place, the hidden grove here, as she quenched the thirst that had welled up quite strong in her throat.

Yet as she raised her head and looked around, her heart skipped a beat. It was truly calm here, the water making little noise, while the trees rustled and sang their own song in their strange voices, weaving the feeling of tranquillity into her body. Peaceful like this had not been felt since she left the Steppe.

Though Seren suddenly realised she doubted that she were the only one to know of such a place... Her gaze turned, looking about, finding she was not alone... and hoping that her intrusion into this place was not unwelcome...