The raven filly has grown in a fine grey young woman, adorned with shades of ebony - namely wings, mane, and tail - and a small dot of white still adorning her forehead, though it's faded. For being named after a star, she's not done much in Nerine. Maybe she was too young. Maybe she would have done better if she'd come now, instead of being allowed to leave.
Doesn't matter. What matters is that after the Tournament, Scorch had decided to test all who were present in Nerine regardless, and she finds herself at the water's edge. The ocean laps at her feat, rocks rise up in the air before her. It'll not be the easiest climb, with the autumn winds shifting, but she has her wings and she knows she has to go up before going into the heart of Nerine to find Scorch. Honestly it seems that this is the only thing that she knows.
It's not undoable; the test is mostly physical, and muscle memory takes over when she flies up. It is the illusion that is the challenge; ah, something had to be off, of course; suddenly surrounded in blackness, she doesn't know where to go, and mid-air without orientation, she only knows how to go up.
She goes far higher than the cliff she was climbing, but when she's reached a point about twice it's height, her vision clears. But it's not Nerine she sees - pointed towards the south, she doesn't know that it's yet another made-up image.
Hyaline burns. She hears the cries of babies, of Kagerus and Svedka, but most of all of Solace and her mother. Scared, she looks in horror as the image comes closer. So taken up in the illusion, she's unaware that she hasn't moved towards them in flight, but is stuck to her one place way up high in the sky, a tiny grey and black speck against the horizon.
In the illusion, she flies towards them. In the illusion, it is her battle trainings in Nerine that give her the advantage - Kagerus doesn't seem able to sleep. But Tähti knows the source of the fire is another horse, a magical one, and she dives down to chase him away, to beat him, whatever it is that will chase him away. She knows why she's been sent to Nerine. This is her purpose! She's a protector!
Unfortunately, all of this being an illusion, she takes a dive for real.
Unfortunately, she hits the rock instead of the sea.
Unfortunately, her neck snaps with a sickening sound that even Oblivion could not have intended.
And by the time she wakes, she knows that she has failed.
And that she should return to Hyaline soon.
the Light you are searching
has always been Within
@[Scorch] okay this got more dramatic than first intended, but it seemed to good an opportunity.