my shadow tilts its head at me,
spirits in the dark are waiting.
He disappears from the Valley when Eight calls to them. Finally. It is the first time Rhonan is truly alive, the darkness sparkling in his eyes. This is what he knows. He knows destruction and death. He knows only darkness. Noah comes with him, just a shadow in the boy’s mind really, but it is enough of a presence to bolster Rhonan’s courage. He misses his friend, but in some ways, they have never really been apart.
He appears somewhat away from the fire, needing the shadows to conserve his power. First, he solidifies the shadows around him, turning his black coat into armor. The Chamber is completely ablaze, but he gathers the shadows he finds and draws on their energy until he can blanket himself in the darkness, wearing it like an impossibly large cape (though not so solid, capes are bad, you know).
Beams of electric and light catch his attention. He takes off into the battle to see a stallion with dragon wings fling himself against the girl radiation beams of light. He sends a piece of the shadows to cover the stallion, wrapping him in a protective embrace. It’s too long to stop all the damage, but it should help. When Killdare, finally disentangles himself, the shadows surge into the wounds on the stallion’s, healing what they can, as best then can. Fixing a cut is easy. Burns from the light will only get slightly better. The shadows cannot heal those wounds so completely.
Next a scream catch his attention, and he spins to find his one real friend (Noah was not so real, not in this life, after all). Demian, trying to protect Cress. He has no idea that the girl can heal, but he knows that he can. He sends a shadow to Demian and it blankets the King’s skin where it’s been singed. His powers are far weaker against light attacks, and he cannot heal the wound completely, but the darkness should take away the pain and give Demian some use of that hind end again.
When he’s done his best to heal Demian, he weaves two wolves out of the shadows on his back. Their teeth gleam, as sharp as any real teeth, as they launch themselves through Demian’s fire and at the Amazonian with the light beams. She can blast through the shadows, he’s sure, but certainly not with one single blast. The wolves would slow her down, and hopefully give Demian enough time to complete his circle of fire around her.
A cold wind greet him then, and he finds a stallion with a tortoise. Okay then. Stranger things have happened, right? Yes, in the middle of an insane battle, this is what Rhonan finds weird. In the corner of his eye, Noah rolls his eyes at Rhonan’s thoughts. Rhonan’s not entirely sure what this particular stallion is up to, but he doesn’t care actually. Instead, he pulls another piece of his shadow cloak away, forming it into a coyote and sends it after the tortoise. That should keep them distracted for a while.
rhonan.
cliff notes:
- Sends a darkness blanket to cover Killdare when he attacked Joscelin, and then heals his wounds (light inflicted wounds can only be semi-healed, not completely)
- Semi-heals Demian's wounds
- Sends two shadow wolves after Joscelin
- Sends a shadow coyote after Weir/really after Darwin