EVE-55: Seraphina Stone

Seraphina Stone is Moonshadow and Firestone’s daughter, Sparkleberry and Mossy Stone’s granddaughter, Blue Emberline, Cloud Breeze, Stargazer, and Stratus Sky’s niece, Teulia and Dreamy Cloud’s cousin, Enchanted Trail’s best friend, and Cinder Whisp’s lover. She is one of the librarians in the library along with Enchanted and Dusk Lillies Garden, and the second long haired grifix in the village after Enchanted.

Seraphina made a lot a friend when she was younger, all of them hanging out in a big group, but her group always got bullied by Cinder Whisp, a female grifix with extraordinary fire power. Cinder would go after everyone in the group, but mostly Seraphina and Enchanted Trail since the two always hung out, no one know Cinder was jealous of not getting any attention from anyone in the group.

There came a time where Cinder went and set Enchanted’s hair on fire, making her freak out and run into the Everfree Forest. Seraphina was furious, “If you want to bully someone, Cinder Whisp, take it out on me. But don’t you dare take it out on my friends!!” She had snapped before running after Enchanted to try and help calm her down and put the fire out on her hair, leaving Cinder Whisp speechless.

When she caught up to her , Enchanted was close to poison joke, Seraphina stopping and telling her to not run into it.. but she did anyway, and her hair went absolutely everywhere, but Seraphina managed to calm her down and she pulled poison joke flower out of her best friend’s hair, but her body started to become covered in sparkles and her hair grew as well, the effect of the poison joke on her. She used her forehead gem magic to pick up her friend’s hair and put it up in a bun, using vines from the trees and branches like hairpins, doing the same with her own hair.

As they walked back to the village Seraphina thought about what Cinder had done, it making her mad but she brushed it off after a while. She took Enchanted home before going to check on her cousin, Dreamy Cloud, because her father had just been killed a few days ago and her and Teulia were trying their best to keep Dreamy in good spirits.

Years passed and Seraphina had joined Enchanted in the library with Dusk Lillies as their mentor, the two sorting books and cleaning up dust and cobwebs in the restricted section. Seraphina enjoyed learning to read and her and Enchanted read books together and worked on putting books away, Seraphina flying up high and putting books on the high shelves while Enchanted handed them to her. Seraphina worked there with Enchanted for months before seeing an unexpected grifix start coming into the library.. Cinder Whisp.

Cinder saw Seraphina was there and got furious and snapped at Dusk Lillies for bringing Seraphina here to study things she knew. Sera tried to reason with Cinder and tell her she wouldn’t bother her, but Cinder burst into flames and and burned a few cubs books, Sera seeing Enchanted scream and ran off because she was probably scared of Cinder catching her hair on fire again like she did when they were younger.

She asked Dusk Lillies why Cinder was coming into the library, and she told her that Cinder was her cousin and he had taught her how to read and she also said it was a place where Cinder came to relax. Sera was surprised by this, not knowing Cinder would actually come here to read and calm down. So, Sera went and continued her work, seeing Cinder looking at her from time to time as she just turned her nose up at her and ignored her.

After a few months of Cinder being in the library, Sera had seen that she always carried a special book around, unsure what it was about, but she saw that since she started carrying the book around, Cinder’s temperament became more calm and not being so harsh all the time, but she still had bursts of rage at times. Sera was curious and wanted to know how a book could’ve impacted her old enemy’s feelings and emotions… so Sera took the risk of sneaking up on Cinder to see the book she was reading when Cinder wasn’t looking.

Sera saw it was a book on fire magic.. was learning to control her flames helping her control her emotions?

The thought of the book rendered in Sera’s head for a while before a day where a grifix sadly passed away, and everyone went to pay their respects before Black Sunset had set the body on fire and danced around it. Sera stood by Enchanted before glancing over at Cinder who looked like she was in a trance from watching the dance and the flames go about burning the body, watching Cinder run off and back to the library. Sera told Enchanted she was going back to the library and she went and saw that Cinder was making a mess of books to look for books on the dance. “Cinder.. you are making a mess.” Sera spoke to her as Cinder didn’t say anything to her and just kept throwing the books, Sera getting upset her’s and Enchanted’s hard work was being messed up. “CINDER!” She spat before Cinder stopped and just sat there in silence before speaking. “I want to find a book about that dance..” was all she said before going back to trying to find books.

Sera tried to clean up the books but they kept getting thrown off the shelves, making her decide to give up and let Cinder be. Was Cinder wanting to learn the dance that the healer was doing? Sera went to Enchanted and told her about what she just witnessed before she said she kinda wanted to help Cinder, but didn’t know how. So, the two went to the library one night and started looking at books themselves and couldn’t find anything, so they gave up on trying.

Months passed and Sera kept seeing Cinder leave the library with a satchel of books, going into the forest alone. Sera decided to follow her and hid up in the trees and saw what Cinder was doing.. she was trying to learn the dance on her own. Sera was surprised but loved going and watching her practice, knowing in her heart she wanted to try and help her, forgetting about their rivalry and ran to the library and went into the restricted section.

Sera was throwing books off the shelves and almost accidentally hit Enchanted in the head with one, the female grifix had followed Sera to the library without her realizing it. “Sera, what are you doing? We can’t be in this section, Dusk Lillies would freak.” Enchanted muttered before Sera gave Enchanted a look of determination, not knowing it was a sign of Sera’s unknown feelings for Cinder becoming more prominent. “I want to help Cinder, Enchanted.. she looks happy in the forest trying to do the dance.. please, I want to find something that could help.” So, Sera spent all night looking for something that could help Cinder, and finally found something.. a book with more in-depth information on flame magic, flipping through pages before finding a section called ‘The Flame Dance.’

“I FOUND IT!” She cried out and scared Enchanted awake since she had fallen asleep while trying to help Sera, Sera holding the book and running out of the library to Cinder Whisp’s room to give her the book. When she got there she was extremely nervous, hoping Cinder wouldn’t be upset since it was midnight and everyone was asleep. She knocked on the door before seeing Cinder open the door. It was midnight and everyone was asleep, so she was ready to fight whoever was outside. "I... found something... in the library... and thought you might make good use of it." Seraphina whispered, handing her the book. "And... sorry." She whispered before turing around and leaving. She was saying sorry for watching Cinder dance in secret as well as waking her up at this hour at night.

After that day Sera didn’t see Cinder in the library all day the following day, unsure if she got kicked out of the library or not. Soon she found out that she had went back out to go practicing in the forest, she knew because Dusk Lillies told her and she also saw a cloud of smoke in the forest, seeing the Queen and Black Sunset go out to investigate with some guards, bringing Cinder back with them as Sera acted out of spite and ran up to Cinder, asking if she was okay and Cinder was surprised by Seraphina’s action of coming up to her, Cinder actually giving a soft smile and telling her she was okay, having to go discuss something with Black Sunset and the Queen. Sera asked if she would maybe see her later in the library, the flame grifix saying maybe and walking off with the healer and queen, Sera going to Enchanted and telling her everything from the night before and asking if maybe she could help her get some time alone with Cinder.

From then on, Cinder and Seraphina got closer, Cinder letting Seraphina watch her practice the flame dance and hearing she was the new grifix to perform the Funerary Ceremony. Seraphina even let Cinder Whisp join in with their group to learn friendship and how to not burn other grifix, having Cinder apologize to Enchanted for burning her hair in the past. Seraphina brought Cinder to meet her family as well, Sera loving her parents and grandparents and her whole family. And she now stays close to Cinder and reads with her as well as Enchanted and still works at the library.