Branches of Time.

calling for me.

(cw: loss, death, mentioned s--cidal idealation, and a lot of hallucinations-)

(july 27th, 1:05pm)

Humming softly to herself, Serenity gazed out into the sky, her mind completely blank of thoughts. Her legs swung up and down off the platform, of which had a shadow cast by the roof, being held up by pillars.

She looked at the spawnpoint, wondering why nobody seemed to have came to visit recently... did they all forget her? But one of them certainly wouldn't... where were they?

"Maybe I should go find them..." she muttered to herself, before carefully getting up, and walking next to it. Serenity froze for a while, deep in thought as to if she should go or not. Taking a deep breath, she took one more step, reaching the base of the dimension she was in.

Nobody was there - but she was looking for one marker who didn't even live there, so that didn't faze her. Happily humming to herself, Serenity continued, skipping along as she went.

Reaching the mainland, she didn't even notice a few markers staring, wondering how she could be so happy again. A few turned to several as she grew closer to the candyland - where she had wanted to go the entire time.

She stopped in front of the chocolate fountain, which had became almost infamous recently within the world of the markers. Something about someone who was always around there...

"Hiya Zen!" Serenity began, kneeling down in front of it. "Did you miss me?"

Then, someone suddenly appeared, laughing to themself in front of Serenity, as a small light from them glowed just like the sun - almost lile they had the light on their side...

"Yeah... I was thinking of you before you got here, actually." Zen replied, holding out a hand for Serenity. "Come along, the fountain has room for two!"

Serenity tried to reach for their hand, but she only passed through it. The two of them stared in shock, before laughing to themselves while Serenity just simply sat next to them.

"That was weird..." she said quietly, looking at them. "How have you been?"

"I've been alright, nothing major's happened." Zen replied, staring at Serenity's hand, wishing they could hold it. "And you?"

"Well... for some reason, nobody's seemed to check in on me recently... I don't know why. Maybe they've all been busy?" Serenity answered, tensing up as she shuffled closer. "But I have you... and that's all that matters!"

"Yeah... it does."

The two of them sat there, continuing to talk about whatever they had on their minds, just looking into each other's eyes... to the point that they didn't even notice other markers watching them, whispering to each other or just staring in silence.

"Say, Serenity... have you ever wondered why you can pass through me?" Zen asked seemingly out of the blue, the light fading 'very slightly' - nobody noticed it at all.

"...No?"

"Not only that, but haven't you noticed that nobody else seems to realize I'm here, and only you do?"

"...There's others?" Serenity asked, looking away for a quick second, before instantly jumping up out of fear. Someone was there, or so she thought... they disappeared within seconds, as she began to process how they looked.

They had a (mostly) dark brown cap, which had two small peach circles at the top, spaced nearing the ends of the cap. The cap had two brown fluffy flaps, of which one could even put their hands into.