A rose-gold flash might have been seen, but then Fechín is gone to warn her family. She runs as fast as the almost-3-year-old has never run before, and just when she arrives to find her mother and sister, a shockwave pulls through her bones in a magical, slightly disturbing way. No images follow for either Fechín or Eurwen, though - but the story the teenage mare has to tell reveals enough, especially when Eurwen pays attention to what is going on on Nerine’s stone surfaces. Fechín calls a warning to her sister and father, as they move towards the more rocky planes in the north, and runs back south amidst the chaos that begins to erupt.
Eurwen fumes. There had been so many times that the Pangeans invaded their personal space here up north. Once, she had thought it might be better to just leave them alone, and they would find someplace else to bully and pick on. Lilli of course just had to make her move, and that had been the only reason nobody had stolen her back - Eurwen convinced herself that the game was dying out and no longer fun.
Nothing was less true, it seemed, and for this, she was angry both with herself and with Ghaul. Fire to cleanse the land, it was fracking bullshit. He never burned any of the Eastern lands, and now he came for Nerine twice. And Taiga as well. The only place that likely wouldn’t burn was the Isle; everything burn-able was dead there already, and covered in snow and ice this time of year anyway. Taiga, having endured a Reckoning before - the sequoias might survive again, but not before lots and lots of green would get destroyed as well.
She stands on the northernmost edge of the forest, feels them coming through the ground. The rock in the ground trembles lightly, just like the muscles in her legs, the only warning that someone is there and likely doing something.
This is her mother’s home.
It is not the rocks she calls upon this time, not right away. There had been another gift, who knows how long, waiting for this kind of opportunity it seems - and while Eurwen’s mind explodes with raw power, a storm comes from the north: the icy wind that normally sweeps over the seas and the Isle, are pulled together and pushed southwards. After that, any rock between her place in south Nerine and Taiga whips upwards like a wall, separating her and her loved ones from the fire that now threatens Taiga from the north, as well as whomever is attempting a burning out there above the trees.
Eurwen doesn’t really see it, though. Instead, she cocoons in her own granite, and passes out.
Idk how many/ who are coming north but basically a very strong northern wind is currently blowing north to south and it’s probably very cold because it hails from the north seas/isle. It will run it’s course and then die out because she has no control over it after creation.
Fire won’t spread to the northern parts of Nerine super easily that way, esp. since Brennen is also dousing any fire that is not on pine trees, but yes this means more smoke and fire towards Taiga as well (yay). Looking to the Nerine map, a stone wall separates north and south Nerine basically at half height, about where the forest in the west is.
Eurwen will not respond further as she basically whipped up a hurricane-like force and did some massive rock things, so her magic is spent and she has buried herself so she won’t burn alive (or in her comatose state). Idk yet what happens to her next.