Alone. Peace.

Of course, perfection never lasts. That is part of the rule of beauty - that it fades over time. Like a tree losing its leaves in winter paradise must fade, a utopia must have it's revolution to be renewed for the next generation. Winter snows and freeze will come; but only for the tree to bud again next year. Then beauty, perfection - they will rise once more, in one great circle.

Stare hoped, dearly, one day she might achieve bliss. Yet today was apparently not that day.

As she slowed her pace, walking on those fine sands with the blue light from the marble now nothing but a dim flame a thousand metres in the distance on a clear day, the world changed. Slowly she lifted her eyes up, hearing the call of gulls upon the wind and the rush of waves on the sand. She blinked and drank in the horizon, as far as it stretched beyond the natural curve of the bay and took steps forwards, one after the other. Steadily, until -

A figure appeared in the distance. Tall, elegant ... A shadow that had a strange silhouette.

Coming to a halt Stare paused, her eyes widening slightly at the prospect of meeting someone on this lonely path. At once her ideas of a plain, peaceful walk were shattered, hope ripped from her chest violently like a tree felled by an axe. Eyes became downcast in expression, arms fell to her sides and the gulls became irritants more than just simple sounds of nature.

She was not ... Alone..

And this creature was still walking towards her.

Large and curious looking, the kenku saw that it was not humanoid. Rather, like her, it seemed to be of some animalistic featuring, with a long reptilian form and ... was that a tail being dragged behind? Though she could still not see it quite clearly, as it was vast in the distance, Stare felt herself pausing in all thought and direction.

What was she to do now, that her peace had gone? How was she to act with this unexpected event, and an alteration in her ideals of how the day would go? Was this creature here for her? Would it attack, would it simply walk on by?

Her beak parted and she stayed absolutely still as the creature kept walking towards her, under the bright yellow sun, along the shore where the salty sea licked at your feet.