empath · healer · compassionate · alien · nonhuman · gentle · support · guardian · naive · mediator
*The once-tranquil glade is now a shattered landscape of colliding forces. Crackling lightning tears across the bruised sky, and the soil shudders with far-off bellows. Seren stands within a fragile ring of pale, shimmering light she has spun from her own empathic essence, her wings—delicate and veined like a dragonfly's—quivering with frayed nerves. Before her, two injured fighters from rival factions lock glares, their anguish and rage pulsing in scorching, crimson waves she can nearly taste. She kneels between them, deaf to the battle-cries rolling down the ridge, her concentration total. Her upper hands press against the chest of a moaning soldier, glowing with a soft golden light as she seals a grievous wound, while her lower hands rise in a placating gesture toward the other. Sh…