-Twilight Walker-

[Treewyrm]

...or someone.

The door opened on the far side of the room. A strange looking man entered, bald but having lots of tiny crystals seemingly grown into the skull. Sara was aware it was no ordinary person but a hybrid. A rare sight as they are very reclusive.

Came back. Always drawn back...

He didn't gesture nor said anything else beside that, but Sara knew he asked her to follow. They walked through vast halls of the city interior, it's segment that have environment suitable for humans. Sara noticed how every time she was there the city itself changed, becoming older, it's patterns on the walls becoming more sophisticated, it's design riddled with lots more tiny details she did not remember seeing before. She wondered if the city itself was alive. Along the way the man spoke quietly to her:

Eventually it all will change, to what end I do not know... There is lot uncertainty here. Perhaps it is too early...

Finally they came to an oddly shaped door. It were her "apartments". The human section of the city was adapted to the common human structure layout albeit mixed with alien design and materials. Unlike the nomad part which had zero gravity, no air and far more environmentally hostile to humans, but more like what nomads probably find comfortable.

But there is one thing I wonder. You've had a chance to be at any other place. Across Sirius you could have been a prize for the significant and rather unique genetic set you have. Yet you came here. Despite the rumors. Despite the unknown ahead of you. Knowing you could have been killed. Could have been forcefully assimilated. Didn't you want to turn away and go back... Plenty stories floating around having gruesome fates, more or less serving as a warning. So why have you not heeded those obvious signs? Instead choosing to be here than anywhere else, of all things houses and colonies had to offer... You could have found fame or make a reclusive life somewhere far from conflicts. So many opportunities for ambitious mind. Still rejected.