10-02-2021, 06:48 AM
SUNLIGHT
She has heard the rumors and the terrifying tales. Of the brindled stallion that is no longer what he once was and of the white mare that accompanies him; she has heard of their vast abilities and the chaos that erupts in their wake, of the danger they pose to those in which they come in contact with. Sunlight was fine with these stories and even encouraged them.
Her gold-tipped ears would search the forests for those who had come in contact with them, becoming more and more intrigued by what was happening in the realms of kingdoms and royalty. She had never cared herself for those kinds of stories of the rise and fall of kings and queens, an idea she made clear when speaking to her uncle Obscene so long ago. This story, however, is nothing like the ones she had heard previously. It instilled a hunger within her, her golden eyes sparking hotly with something like curiosity and mild jealousy. She would probe their minds without permission, seeking the next part of the story.
It is when there is mention of nightmares and darkness all around Tephra - her once home - that Sunlight no longer wished to be a spectator in the story. She wished to place herself directly into it, unsatisfied with being a simple bystander. She wanted to see it for herself.
She did not doubt that what she saw inside the random strangers’ minds. Her perchance for danger and uncertainty fed her motivation like oil to her fire, interested to see these characters interact with someone like herself - someone who burns brighter than any magma that may spew from the silent, groaning volcano in the distance.
Sunlight walks through the inland grasses lazily, as if she had not spent years away from the place that had been her home. It isn’t anymore, she quickly realizes once stepping foot within it once again. There is no love lost here in the ashen peninsula and she is not here to request that the nightmares that frightened everyone away would come to a conclusion. She does not care about Tephra and what it has become. It is why her fire is released from beneath the darkness of her hooves with each step, bright white and hissing the moment it touches the dry gold of Tephra’s summer grasses.
There is a darkened trail in her wake, where the gold stalks turn to ash with each step forward, igniting and spreading away from her until it is stopped by either the few trickles of inland sea streams or joined into one of the many lava flows.
Her gold-tipped ears would search the forests for those who had come in contact with them, becoming more and more intrigued by what was happening in the realms of kingdoms and royalty. She had never cared herself for those kinds of stories of the rise and fall of kings and queens, an idea she made clear when speaking to her uncle Obscene so long ago. This story, however, is nothing like the ones she had heard previously. It instilled a hunger within her, her golden eyes sparking hotly with something like curiosity and mild jealousy. She would probe their minds without permission, seeking the next part of the story.
It is when there is mention of nightmares and darkness all around Tephra - her once home - that Sunlight no longer wished to be a spectator in the story. She wished to place herself directly into it, unsatisfied with being a simple bystander. She wanted to see it for herself.
She did not doubt that what she saw inside the random strangers’ minds. Her perchance for danger and uncertainty fed her motivation like oil to her fire, interested to see these characters interact with someone like herself - someone who burns brighter than any magma that may spew from the silent, groaning volcano in the distance.
Sunlight walks through the inland grasses lazily, as if she had not spent years away from the place that had been her home. It isn’t anymore, she quickly realizes once stepping foot within it once again. There is no love lost here in the ashen peninsula and she is not here to request that the nightmares that frightened everyone away would come to a conclusion. She does not care about Tephra and what it has become. It is why her fire is released from beneath the darkness of her hooves with each step, bright white and hissing the moment it touches the dry gold of Tephra’s summer grasses.
There is a darkened trail in her wake, where the gold stalks turn to ash with each step forward, igniting and spreading away from her until it is stopped by either the few trickles of inland sea streams or joined into one of the many lava flows.
a fire shall be woken