Olena, for all the caution and frailty that she is, finds that trust comes easy. Her shyness and timidness quickly fades oftentimes - brushed aside with tender strokes of curiosity and the painful ache of longing for friendships. She is starved of them (besides of the ones she has with her mothers and siblings) and seems to be drawn to those beyond her inner circle, a little flame of adventure sparking in her chest each time she has met someone new. So far, Olena has not come across anyone who would wish her harm and perhaps that will be her undoing; too trusting and too weak is a terrible mixture.
“Lots of stuff?” she inquires with a breathless smile (a blend of fatigue and awe making it so). She somehow feels lighter, as if she had just bathed in the waters of the falls further near the coast, though they are nowhere near its healing properties. This feeling would not last long, she thinks, just like the waterfall’s powers, but as she tilts her thin head towards the other, she wonders if perhaps there is something different in the magic he wields. “I think you’ve already seen all I can do,” Olena adds a bit sheepishly, referring to the moment her phasing had made her quiver in and out of invisibility. The buckskin filly snorts thoughtfully, flexing the lithe bones of her iridescent black wings reflexively. She doesn’t even mention her wings as they sit almost limply at her withers - she is too frail to fly and has never had a hoof leave the ground.
“I don’t want to be like that, I think.” Olena pauses, turning her dark blue eyes to Crowns. “Afraid, I mean. I want to understand.” She thinks of the darkness that pulls in close when the sun sets, especially on the nights when the moon is nowhere to be found. She imagines all sorts of things in the shadows, but she is not sure if they are real or only from her mind. Crowns, however, seems to know more about the things that wander in the darkness, and perhaps he could share his stories; ones that she would think of before drifting off to sleep that night. “What is it you see?”
OLENA
all the stars go dark
@[crowns]