YOU'RE ONLY AS SICK AS YOUR SECRETS
Aela wasn't able to break the darkness. When the Eclipse had blanketed all of Beqanna, the golden girl had stubbornly held her glow. In the early days of the Endless Night, Aela shined and illuminated and glowed because there is nothing in her that will yield to anything but her own desires. It hadn't taken her long to learn that it was her light that drew the monsters and it didn't take her long to learn that what they were - what they really were - was shadows of their former souls.
And there had been a part of the palomino that enjoyed dismantling them, taking them apart emotion by each separate thread of emotion because they had tried to steal her shine.
She hadn't been able to break the darkness. Aela didn't have the ability to bend it or shift it to her will. But it had taught her to feel, to scour deeper through the shadows than she ever had before. She had challenged the monsters and the limits of her Magic and now, with the sunlight warm on her gilded back, the Pampas mare felt she was beginning to reap the rewards of that understanding. There was more (there was always more with Aela) and as the palomino gracefully maneuvered through the crowds of horses, she could sense all the various emotions radiating from them.
It would be better - easier - to keep her distance from the others but Aela is always pushing herself. She wants to understand her own limits as much as she wants to know the limits of others. The laws of Magic have always been intriguing and so the slender mare moves past them. There is a sense of anger from one - a rush of anxiety from another - and Aela takes a quicker step than she otherwise might.
Until a familiar face draws her attention.
"Radiance," Aela murmurs to her counterpart, equally surprised to see the gold sabino here, wondering if she might be equally surprised to hear her speak. She eyes the shadows curling from her skin, billowing from her like smoke with slight admiration. The blaze beneath her skin burns, eager for a chance to smolder against the darkness. Her blue eyes brighten with curiosity and her smile curves slightly. "What brings you out of the shadows?"
@Radiance