[open] your string of lights is still bright to me

[Gale]

Gale it's hard to keep a straight face when i just want to smile -- starlight crashing through the room, we'll lose our feathers Though he desperately wants to tell Tiercel that Eyas hadn’t meant what she’d said, he cannot bring himself to lie to his brother. Their sister might very well try, and while Gale is certain he could stop anything from escalating, he is equally certain that he does not want to. So instead he avoids them both, and decides instead to seek out Isilya, and seek the aid of the queen in finding a solution to this darkness. He leaves Erne behind, uncertain but hopeful that his newly discovered skill will translate to Erne’s night vision increasing as well. As he flies, he practices, looking first one way, then another. By the time he lands four heavy hooves on the damp earth of Tephra, he’s manipulated his vision enough that he is able to see as nearly as clearly as if it were day. With this clear vision, he realizes that he is most decidedly not in Tephra. Instead, he is in the Meadow (or perhaps the Field), and to the far north the Mountain makes a dark shape in the sky. Gale huffs an irritated breath, knowing he’d been blown off course by wind. Usually correcting such a flight error is a minor thing, but he had not bothered to look down as he’d flown, and instead has landed far from his true destination. His throat is dry, so Gale moves toward the smell of distant water, doing his best to keep clear of the few horses he sees in the distance, and ever-watchful for another of the eerie creatures that he’d seen before. @[anyone]