South

The southern part of the city has a chic family-oriented sort of charm to it. Here, small locally owned shops run rampant, neighbors often know each other by name, and the monthly socials are an event not to be missed. In the South, children can often be seen safely playing in the park or on sidewalks and in the weekends, families often take to the beach to enjoy the warm waters surrounding the city.

What You'll Find Here

Ascension Center of Equitation
Hyde Park
Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium
The Outskirts
The University of Sacrosanct

Ascension Center of Equitation

The Ascension Center of Equitation is the epicenter of the Dark Hunter Cavalry Unit. Originally a high-class facility for show-jumping, Ascension now caters entirely to the Cavalry Unit. Here the Dark Hunters learn how to ride and fight upon the backs of horses - many of which are Were's themselves.
Home of: The Cavalry

Hyde Park

Hyde Place takes up a large part of the Southern side of the city and includes a large playground, several fountains, and a small garden. The park is open from five in the morning till midnight though many shady characters may visit this place while it's technically "closed". The park has also been a venue for several concerts and hosts many holiday-related events. Under a full moon, witches are often seen here for the sacred ground beneath the iconic Weeping Beech.

Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium

The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium (PDZA) is an award-winning combined zoo and aquarium located within the Southern Part of Sacrosanct. Situated on 92 acres in Sacrosanct's Hyde Park, the zoo and aquarium are home to over 9,000 specimens representing 367 animal species. Point Defiance is also widely known for its conversation efforts regarding the breed and release program of Red Wolves.

The Outskirts

Beyond the city limits and over the bridge lies the deep, dark, and almost impenetrable forest. Often seen as a way to guard this magical city against the world that surrounds it, many are entirely ignorant of the evil that may creep between those tree trunks. Many were-creatures use the forest for the transformations of their newest members and some even take to hunting here. It isn't particularly peculiar for people to go missing within this forest but once you get through, the rest of the world awaits.

The University of Sacrosanct

The University of Sacrosanct offers some of the top programs in the nation with its outstanding campus and specialized faculty. The University places a high focus both upon educating future generations but also on research to help revolutionize the world. The University welcomes the talent of students across the world to enroll and unlock their unlimited potential. With applications from across the nation, classes fill up quickly.

PhD in Plant Biology Abigail Hughes

Don't fret precious, I'm here ISOLT


Posted on June 29, 2015 by Davante Dorian
South
Little angel go away, come again some other day.
The devil has my ear today.

Never before had I volunteered the sanctity of my home to another outside of my relative circle. Aside from immediate family, I had never brought anyone to Africa... let alone my actual township outside of Port Elizabeth. The conditions of the township were enough to keep most nonprofits out of the area, why should I bring an outsider into a place that might be too dangerous for NGO assistance? When I was young, I didn't understand why people who were pacifists, people who wanted to do good didn't come and assist us. My sisters tried to explain that sometimes places were too far gone to come back to life from the brink of anarchy. I still didn't understand, no, not until I was a player in the violent, high stakes game that ran the township. While I may have professed interest in providing help to my home, I wasn't ever really prepared to show the home of my nightmares to anyone else lest they begin to have bad dreams, too.

After involving Isolt in a waking, lucid nightmare of mine, we'd fallen into some kind of platonic intimacy after I had begun to allow my demons off their leashes and to get a breath of fresh air instead of forcing them to remain inside their cages. I was not ready to tame said demons, but it was more than time to allow them to stretch their legs. While I wanted to revel in Isolt's kind words that no, I was not hopeless, I found the notion trying and harder to accept than I would have liked. So instead of wandering in my internal darkness, I'd suggested we both might need time away from our routine lives. Visiting home might do me good, and it might offer the vampire a purpose that she hadn't seen since days when her heart was actually beating. I didn't mind the idea of spending more time with her, especially as she offered support I couldn't find elsewhere. Unfortunately, utilizing my support from my brother and sisters seemed somehow like it was enabling. They had witnessed relapses of mine over the years. They had witnessed me fall off track many times, I didn't want them to see me struggle, no... not now. Not since it had been years since I'd involved them in my sordid journey towards sobriety or towards any kind of personal, internal peace. It seemed to me that Isolt might find the trip to Africa invigorating; she would be able to provide something that no one else dared attempt to. Watching how she had handled me the night I obviously couldn't handle myself proved to me that her touch was healing, and would benefit so many more lives than just mine.

While I hadn't needed to pack much for the trip, I'd enlisted Elenore's help to advise Isolt on what to bring. It would be hot, it would be heavy, it would be dirty, and it would be disturbing at best. With that description in mind, I had prepared myself with the help of a sleeping pill prescribed by the good Doctor herself in order to keep myself from falling victim to doubting my decision to bring her home. Fortunate enough to sleep through any fitful memories or dreams, I awoke with a mild headache and hangover from the pill that had given me reprieve from my self doubt. It was with silence that I managed to siddle out the door with a mere duffle bag propped on my shoulder before slipping into the driver's seat of my car in order to pick Isolt up before heading to the airport. Arriving at her door shortly after I'd left my own apartment, I sleepily wandered up to her door before bending the lock and letting myself in.

"Coffee's in the car. The customs guy for this airline hates me and generally will search my bags and all so let's go, yeah?"

There was only a hint of tenacity in my voice as I yawned, attempting patience as I awaited Isolt's presence so we could leave for the airport and get in the vessel that would bring us to a whole different world.

"Wait, do you drink coffee? Oh wait. You drink blood. Ha, ha," I muttered, accepting the fact that I was going to be a raging pain in her ass until I had woken up a little more and wasn't reluctant to expose her to my past. Oh wait, that wasn't going to happen. My stomach was in knots in a way I'd felt mostly after a few hours after my last dose of the medication that was intended to help me get the rest of the heroin out of my system and keep it that way.


D A V A N T E



Don't fret, precious.
I'm here.


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