There were still many mysteries in the ‘verse. The worlds that had been terraformed and now played home to humanity hadn’t always been that way.

Before the planets had been transformed to cater for human life, they had once hosted other lifeforms, most of them long extinct. But there were still remnants of these entities. Some revealed themselves in supernatural ways, others more subtly, and still others waited… waiting to be unearthed, waiting to be revealed, waiting to be unleashed on an unsuspecting ‘verse…

The Sereni-Tree,

Somewhere in deep space.

In the two weeks since Soul's death, Serenity had spent most of that time in her room, only coming out when absolutely necessary and barely talking to anyone.

Now, with many of the crew sound asleep, Serenity emerges from her room and creeps downstairs, heading to the kitchen.

She is STARVING, having hardly eaten anything since, well, she doesn't like to think about it. But now she's hungry. She finds a bag of chips and munches those while she raids the fridge. She pulls out pie, sandwiches, a hunk of cheese, pickles. She pops her head in the freezer and finds a tub of chocolate ice cream. She grabs a big spoon and digs into that, adding whipped cream and candy right to the container.

Dale the ferret wanders in. She picks him up and sets him on the table and feeds him the greens from the celery she dips in her peanut butter.

Finally, sated, she finishes off the last of her glass of milk, puts her head down on the table, and falls asleep, leaving the remains of the ice cream to melt on the counter.

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The phantom floats through the hallways and the rooms, observing the people contained in the ship called SereniTree, but he is not sure why he watches, or why he is even on this ship in the first place. It is a mystery, even to him. He exists, and that is as far as his mind let's him go. He has no name, and he has no comprehension of what a name is. So he floats behind the veil of reality, and watches.

He is no