10-02-2021, 02:49 PM
I am Heaven sent, don't you dare forget
Her confusion is a cancer that spreads from her to him, something that settles deep into his bones and stirs the darkness underneath. Feeds its doubts and uncertainties, reveals hidden insecurities. All because of her simple question, a question he had never thought to ask anyone including his birth mother… Or himself. The flames across his back spread but he does not feel their heat, instead his tawny eyes are locked on hers as he tries to find a suitable answer to give her.
He doesn’t have one.
Beneath the moonlight, he glows bright and golden but on the inside… On the inside he suddenly feels incredibly dark and small. He doesn’t notice when the ghostly filly fades as his connection to her loses focus. As it allows something darker to manifest behind him instead, taking advantage of a power that he still couldn’t completely control.
The thing he calls Terror is exactly that. A soul so twisted and corrupted that he can never actually see it, just something he can feel. It creeps up his spine and smothers his flames, chills the air around them, and whispers to the darkness inside of him. Breathes new life into those doubts and insecurities that Aela had done her best to chase out. Slips an answer into his pinned back ears that he takes as truth because he is also a child that doesn’t know any better. “She knew I was born wrong.” He says quietly, staring at her as the frown lingers.
Terror reminds him that he doesn’t deserve friends like Liesma. It is gentle as it pries into his mind and tries to encourage isolation instead of companionship. He takes a step back from her, feeling the presence of the stained soul but unable to untangle his thoughts from the ones that are pressed into his mind. “I should probably go back.” He finally manages, looking away from his friend and her beautiful stars as Terror encourages a new thought, one where he is never able to make her smile and that, if anything, he might make her sad. He might make her cry. And even worse, he might enjoy it.
Thoughts that are far too horrible for one as young as himself, even if he can set others on fire and see the dead.
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