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[Avelina]

Avelina would have approached anyone, just to avoid being alone. She’s used to silence, used to the quiet, but the added factor of constant darkness makes her normally solitary existence oppressive. She’s been searching for Cru - wanting to wait this out with the comfort of family. Because Avelina believes with all her heart this is going to pass. It has to. In the meadow, she drifts towards the first horse she sees. The first shape she is sure isn’t one of the monsters she has seen crawling out of shadows that send her heart skittering. She’s swapped out her equine eyes for those of a panther to help her see better, the pupils wide to catch whatever light they can. It’s not until Avelina is close that the gentle light of her fireflies catches the faintest of a rainbow sheen and she knows for sure that this is her sister - and her smile brightens incredibly. The happiness and relief that flood through her stirs the fireflies into an excitable frenzy and some of them dance around the younger girl in a greeting. “Hey Holler!” There’s a special kinship that she feels with this sister, more than Mazikeen. More than the siblings she knows are out there but who she has not met. She recognized the sadness in her mother, however hard Agetta had tried to hide it. Avelina will never speak the words out loud, but she knows Holler wasn’t wanted. Any more than she and Cru were. But she also knows they are loved too, that they became wanted, and that’s all that really matters. She just hopes that Holler hasn't picked up on it. Hopes Agetta's done a better job at holding herself together for the sake of this bright filly. “Pretty freaky, isn’t it?” She gestures to the sky, though she’s sure she doesn’t even need to - surely this is the thing everyone everywhere is talking about. How can they not? avelina

@[Holler]