fandomtownies | The Preserve, Sunday Morning

Octavia had already been out here with Duke, yesterday. They'd found her old target practice board where she'd used to keep it hidden in the woods, and taken a stab - ha - at honing their knife-throwing skills with it. It had been a really nice time. But it hadn't kept her from waking up early this morning, and leaving her partners a note to say that she was heading out into the preserve for a bit.

She'd walked through the woods until they engulfed her, until she was hit with that familiar feeling as if they could stretch out forever on all sides, even though she knew perfectly well where she was in relation to the town and the castle.

She found a good spot to sit down. And just breathed it all in.

Later, she'd go to see what the brunch had to offer. And even later still, she had another likely nostalgia-tinged thing planned with Lucifer. But for right now, there was just this: the quiet woods all around her, and an ease in her breathing that she didn't quite tend to find anywhere except places like this. She enjoyed their life in the Bahamas, she did. It was relatively peaceful, they lived surrounded by a community that had accepted them and that they'd grown to be a part of, and she wouldn't give up her work with her students for the world, but...

Sometimes, she just needed the woods.

And sometimes, the multiverse provided.

[ooc: Open preserve is open, whether you want to run into the sentimental lady in the woods or just get some forest time for yourself.]