and when i breathed
my breath was lightning
She’d been born with the electric in her veins. And then, the lioness shifting had come easily. The fairies simply gave it to her, without much rhyme or reason. Draconis isn’t particularly put off when Rhy turns into a lioness suddenly, which Rhy finds encouraging. The girl really will do just fine in the Jungle, if she doesn’t mind having sharp teeth and claws so close to her. Most of the other big cats in the Jungle kept away from the horses. There was too much magic running rampant for them to risk it, and besides, they’ve all learned to live in harmony over the years.
“The fairies decided to give me a gift one day. And the last trick I have, well, I nearly died for that one.” She disappears from view all of a suddenly, coming back after a moment in her ethereal form. Gray patches dot her golden coat, though everything about her is dulled in this form. She shimmers and waves a bit, flicking in and out of existence. “I traveled to the end of the world, to save a mare named Gail. But when we returned, Beqanna would not have her. Instead, I was sent into the Afterlife, and hurled back out by the then-dead Vanquish. Though he’s crossed back into the land of the living again, and now rules the Deserts for a second time.”
She flickers back into view, coming fully to life again. There’s so much she can do in her ghost form and so much she can do with the electric that’s she’s hardly scratched the surface of what she’s really capable of. But really, she simply wanted the girl to know every form Rhy could take. It wouldn’t do for her to learn in the wrong way. If Rhy was going to be her Mother, the girl should probably know what her mother might look like each day.
rhy
the electric lioness of riagan and rayelle
