South

The southern part of the city has a chic family-oriented sort of charm to it. Here, small locally owned shops run rampant, neighbors often know each other by name, and the monthly socials are an event not to be missed. In the South, children can often be seen safely playing in the park or on sidewalks and in the weekends, families often take to the beach to enjoy the warm waters surrounding the city.

What You'll Find Here

Ascension Center of Equitation
Hyde Park
Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium
The Outskirts
The University of Sacrosanct

Ascension Center of Equitation

The Ascension Center of Equitation is the epicenter of the Dark Hunter Cavalry Unit. Originally a high-class facility for show-jumping, Ascension now caters entirely to the Cavalry Unit. Here the Dark Hunters learn how to ride and fight upon the backs of horses - many of which are Were's themselves.
Home of: The Cavalry

Hyde Park

Hyde Place takes up a large part of the Southern side of the city and includes a large playground, several fountains, and a small garden. The park is open from five in the morning till midnight though many shady characters may visit this place while it's technically "closed". The park has also been a venue for several concerts and hosts many holiday-related events. Under a full moon, witches are often seen here for the sacred ground beneath the iconic Weeping Beech.

Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium

The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium (PDZA) is an award-winning combined zoo and aquarium located within the Southern Part of Sacrosanct. Situated on 92 acres in Sacrosanct's Hyde Park, the zoo and aquarium are home to over 9,000 specimens representing 367 animal species. Point Defiance is also widely known for its conversation efforts regarding the breed and release program of Red Wolves.

The Outskirts

Beyond the city limits and over the bridge lies the deep, dark, and almost impenetrable forest. Often seen as a way to guard this magical city against the world that surrounds it, many are entirely ignorant of the evil that may creep between those tree trunks. Many were-creatures use the forest for the transformations of their newest members and some even take to hunting here. It isn't particularly peculiar for people to go missing within this forest but once you get through, the rest of the world awaits.

The University of Sacrosanct

The University of Sacrosanct offers some of the top programs in the nation with its outstanding campus and specialized faculty. The University places a high focus both upon educating future generations but also on research to help revolutionize the world. The University welcomes the talent of students across the world to enroll and unlock their unlimited potential. With applications from across the nation, classes fill up quickly.

PhD in Plant Biology Abigail Hughes

Show the devil how good you dance


Posted on September 23, 2015 by Eleanor
South



This is where Hollywood cues the delusion,
that everything looked this blue through Sinatra's eyes.



Her boots leave deep imprints in the soft earth, hardly fitting for the size of the thin and petite fairy. Her pace is brisk, Eleanor's slender legs moving with authority down a trail she'd taken many times before. It was a pleasant, chilly and overcast day in Sacrosanct. She awoke to a fog that seemed to stretch miles high in the sky, inhibiting her view of the city's landscape from her haven 15 stories in the air. The weather inspired her to leave the confines of her bare apartment in the heart of Sacrosanct, (to actually put clothes on for what felt like the first time in days) and re-immerse herself in the bare forest this part of the world had to offer her.

Perhaps that was why she was always intent on leaving Sacrosanct. The concrete jungle of the city was sometimes overwhelming, suffocating even. She hated it. And ever since her run in with Animal -- that man, that fae, she'd been strangely anxious. It was a characteristic of fairies, to be paranoid, she knows. And Eleanor has spent the majority of her life trying as hard as possible not to be like the others. Animal wasn't like other fae. Perhaps that's why his memory lingered in her mind for so long. It excited her late at night when she thought about him. She found her fingers lingering at the base of her neck, retracing where he had touched her. The interaction had frightened her, too. Enough to keep her inside for some good deal of time. She limited her wanderings to the woods on the outskirts of town to only the day time hours, and even then, the peak of them, when humans were most likely to be there. The itch to return to her late night habits eventually got the best of her, and Eleanor began to emerge after dark again. It took weeks for the anxiety to flee.

But now, months later, the memory rarely resurfaces. Eleanor returns regularly to more secluded points in the forest to collect her things, usually mushrooms and berries, among some natural herbs and such to keep at her apartment. She tries to spend as much time in the forest as possible, despite the aforementioned difficulties. Her day job was beginning to grow mundane. The people around her at the university were a bore. She was considering less meaningful ways to spend her time. Maybe returning to her roots before she became a "discovered" artist, slinging drinks from behind a bar. Or maybe she'd return to the countryside someday, where she could live off the land by herself for some time.

Eleanor moves as she always does, slithering in the shadows more feline than human. Her pace is deliberate, as if she rushing to get to what waits for her at the end of this trail. Finally she sees it and a simple smirk appears across her lips. She edges through some brush, and as she does, nimble fingers grab at the heavy, ill-fitted sweater she's wearing and removes it. There's nothing left but her porcelain flesh underneath. Her boots carry her down a sharp embankment, which she maneuvers around with ease, before reaching the creek bed. There she continues to undress. The boots, the natted stockings, a thin piece of black under garment. The fairy doesn't hesitate to dip into the cool rushing waters, submerging herself immediately.

She swims for some time, enjoying the cool sensation of the water against her skin before finally emerging back onto drier ground. She'd never been bothered by anything other than a woodland creature (i.e., not supernatural) this far into the dense woods. So she isn't rushed to redress. The fairy does reach for her undergarments, slipping her slender legs into them quickly before journeying back under the thick canopy of trees. Her eyes dart from the ground to the fog that has seemingly followed her here, hovering at waist and shin level all around. She finds a few berries, which she pops into her mouth before stumbling upon a ring of mushrooms. The sight causes her to freeze in her tracks, bare feet, bare breasts and all. It's there that she realizes the rest of the world is completely still around her. The fog no longer follows. The birds above do not sing. She knows what the clearing means, and before she sprints back the way she came, the fae's naked frame disappears into thin air.



Eleanor | Fairy | Vinyl

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