Week 1, Saturday, Post-Trial; Serph

[sylfied]

[ ... It's not too early to sleep, but after everything that's happened, even Fie's well-aware that sleep is not going to come easily. After everything she's seen for herself, being one of the few who had actually witnessed the precise moment where everything had gone downhill and knowing what would come and knowing now what will come...

Fie walks, with a stride a little more confident than her usual sleepy amble. She does tense a little, spotting someone on the beach gazing out at the ocean, but upon recognition... she simply steps up silently beside him.

Serph probably won't mind, she thinks, but she's prepared to keep walking if he does. ]

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[varunastra]

[ Serph doesn't mind a bit. He does like company, usually, even if his silence would seem to suggest otherwise. He and his tribe only overcame so much because their loyalty to each other was even stronger than the odds they faced.

There's not going to be any of that here, he knows. The trial only proved what they already knew, that there was no way a group of forty-some strangers would be able to come together so quickly, place their trust in one another, and beat the odds stacked against them to survive.

Still, there are a few he feels comfortable enough with. They're not the comrades he's lost, but their presence is still a comfort in its own way. And Fie is definitely one of those few. ]