| she's the only one who knows what it is to burn.
They think this is war.
The very notion is foolish.
The shadowmare knows better. She’d seen war firsthand many times over.
And this? This was not war.
This was an opportunity.
An opportunity for growth, for change – to grow into something so much more than they could imagine. These citizens of the new Beqanna were short sighted – they didn’t know what potential lived here. And now they were showing their ignorance – their petty resistance to change. It was disappointing, of course, but not at all surprising.
Not all were willing to embrace the cleansing nature of fire. Not all were willing to sacrifice what they know to gain something far greater. Instead they couldn’t help but cling to comfort, to fight for the ordinary life that was all they had ever known.
A pity, really.
She watches as they fight – the skirmishes erupting all around. She does not intervene – she has one task today and that is to break the barrier. Unless Brennen could be convinced to see reason, of course. Like Straia, the shadowmare has no conflict with those who are reasonable. But until then she continues to pour her magic at the barrier. The emotional attack was an interesting choice, given the heated emotions, but emotions mean so little to the woman who had long since frozen her own heart away in her chest. Fear? Pain? Anguish? It all means nothing to her now – now when she is a creature of only cold.
Her attention flickers to Beyza for a moment, her young protégé who already seemed to understand what so many here simply could not. A shadow of a smile crossed her lips as she could feel Beyza’s unique brand of magic join her own and Straia’s in breaking down Brennen’s defenses.
But her attention shifts back to Beryl – the girl who had attempted to cast darkness in her direction the first time. Again – the girl reaches for the darkness. The shadowmare can feel it – the darkness is her pet – her lifeblood. The shadows surrounding her stir in anticipation.
The shadowmare, ever the opportunist, does what she does best.
She takes.
Shadow calls to darkness. She strips the power from Beryl’s attack as soon as its in the open – redirecting the intended attack away from those fighting and directing the energy into her own attack on Brennen’s defenses. Of course, she cannot stop all of the boulders from falling, though the majority are directed away and towards where the barrier burns. Stealing someone else’s energy certainly allows her the moment to conserve her own, and for that this has been positive development.
Finally, she speaks, “Surely you understand this is a fight you cannot possibly hope to win,” her voice is not cruel – but matter of fact. Calculated. She speaks to no one in particular, rather all that continue to resist.
“You fight for what this place is now – you fail to consider what this place could be,” she says, simply – her voice as cool as it always is – despite the fact her shadows continue to eat away at the barrier before her, “Let us show you.”
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tl;dr: Ana continues to throw her magic at the barrier hoping to burn it down w/ Straia and now Beyza too. Makes proud eyes at Beyza. Emotional attack legit does nothing to her because Ana's a frosty bitch who hasn't had emotions for like idk 100 years or some shit. Ana also totally stole Beryl's darkness from her ka-pow attack because total Ana move and redirected the energy towards the barrier. Obviously rocks are still going to fall down just not as many and stuff. At the end talks to the resisters like 'come on guyz rebuilding old BQ could be like, real cool. be chill' and basically implies that its a bad idea to keep fighting.
