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More from Elancia Chronicles.
The image is of Versearrun's parents, Clifford and Cadence McDowell, in happier times.
I've begun working on the storyline of Season 2 finally, and in doing so, I realized I'd need themes for the very earliest parts of Verse's life, since a lot of season 2 revolves around memories and the past. I had a version of 'memory' for Verse's later childhood, before she left Qaimusu, but I needed a theme for a much earlier time, when both of her parents still lived at home, and the island and village were much more prosperous and happy.

“Hey...” Verse said softly, peering towards her.
“What's up?” the beast-girl asked, looking at him out of the corner of one of her strange eyes.
“Do you think things will be like this forever?” Verse asked. His worst fear was something changing.
He had Camdyn, he had his mother and father, and Camdyn's parents were a constant, warm presence, too. The village was getting a little bigger, and was getting more and more fun to play in. The railroad came to the island now, and Verse could watch the giant locomotive huff and puff on the days when it came. Life was perfect.
“Huh? You'll always be my princess, Versea-runt. ” Camdyn said. The same fears perhaps did not bother her.
"Always."

Always is an awfully long time.