Serena's life changed when she met a boy. They met before walls had been erected around hearts. They met before the artifice of adulthood, when truth could be found in a glance, a touch. Navigating the treacherous path of puberty, each reaching back, helping the other when lagging behind, waiting to fulfil the promise they silently made to each other the night their eyes met. United by their Southern Cross her memories of Zan were the only thing that gave her the strength, the courage, to live the life she had chosen. Was it too late for them? Their youth had blown and seeded, but, maybe there was enough beauty left in their souls...