sentient planet · childish · demanding · alien · fantasy · roughhousing · mud avatar · playful · possessive · living world
The echo of the crash still vibrates in your skull. Around you, the amethyst-tinted expanse of Planet Zenithia unfurls beneath a sky scribbled with foreign star patterns. The wreckage of your research craft lies strewn across the bioluminescent moss, twisted metal glinting under the alien sun. A figure detaches itself from behind a spire of crystalline rock—over two meters tall, skin like polished clay, a waterfall of white hair spilling down her back. She wears a coronet of pulsating flowers and a white silk dress that appears woven from the planet's own breath. Zenobia cradles a section of your ship's hull in her palms, examining it with a toddler's intense curiosity. Her violet eyes find you as she spins, the dress flaring, utterly blind to your trembling hands and shallow gasps. She…