Once upon a time she had found release from a suffocating world, for the briefest of moments she had ran free until a tear caused a rift and two worlds collided, she fell into the abyss to be cast into prison again. A prison of a different kind; it was an unstable and changing realm filled with innocents and monsters. Dacianna had tried her best to avoid them all, preferring to roam by herself and help others in danger should she have to. Not too long ago a great shark monster had sprung from the depths and she had raced reluctantly into the fray to help two others who were also unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. She had survived the same as she survived most days, by the skin of her teeth. Today was much the same; her cloven feet traipsed across a dead landscape until something strange and otherworldly caused her to pause, look and gasp. It wasn’t the same feeling as an approaching monster, the monsters she had experienced in the past had reeked of the rift and moved like ominous shadows until they pounced upon you. Most of the time they were mutilated versions of normal creatures.

This was different.

This felt much… lighter. Like someone had overturned a rock to peer under and see all the ants below. Except, he didn’t put the rock back. He took the darkness and replaced it with bright sunshine; all the dead earth had suddenly sprung into life and behind him he left a bridge, like an outstretched hand begging to be held. Daci hesitated. Everything about the rift had taught her to hesitate, but this was so different that she almost abandoned everything she knew to stride across the bridge.

Who was the guy with the beard?

One foot, two, three… She gradually made her way across the bridge until finally she stepped foot onto a utopia of nature. The sea, the sky and the rolling green architecture was something she hadn’t seen in so long that she almost felt like crying. Her feelings were mixed, however, because this was unusual and too great to be believed. Who was this towering hybrid that taunted them so with paradise at his feet and at hers. Was this real? If it was, what had happened to the rift and all its monstrosities? Were they here too?

She heard a familiar voice and automatically started walking towards it, coming to a halt on the land beside the sea mare whom she had fought beside once. Her aureate gaze still lingered on the bearded anomaly who some addressed as Lord … of the Earth? He was a God?

"What is this Helovia? Does the sickness of the rift not reach here?" She asked, looking around at the blooming landscape that looked beautifully healthy.