ALL KINGDOM // ACTIVITY CHECK

[Rhonan]

I have seen the night torn into thin darkling strips

and woven into shapes too bleak for dreams.

The voice pushes into his mind. It is unfamiliar, not Eights. Not that he’s ever appreciated Eight voice in his head, but at least he is used to it. The boy grimaces and hisses. Noah gives him a disappointed look from the corner of his eye, sensing the anger sensing the anger roiling in his friend. Of course he senses it, being a figment of Rhonan’s imagination at this point (at least, that is the only logical explanation Rhonan can come up with, but he doesn’t really know). “Stop it,” he mutters under his breath. He tries to turn and face Noah, but that doesn’t work. Noah isn’t really there. He just lingers on the periphery. So instead, Rhonan blinks, and his dead friend is gone.

Instead, his shadow wolf has returned. There’s no color to the creature, though it’s solid. For some reason, this particular wolf decided to stay wolf. All his other creatures eventually turned back to shadows on the ground. But this one stayed, coming and going as it pleased, but usually not terribly far away from Rhonan. In truth, he’s not sure the wolf can be that far away him without the magic unraveling.

He pops through the nearest shadow, emerging near where the girl stands. There’s no nod of the head, or even a friendly look. No, he stands draped in shadows with his shadow wolf by his side, muddy orange eyes the only trace of color on either of them. “Queen?” he scoffs. “It may be your title, but that does not make you a Queen.”

No, she’s just a little spoiled princess. He’s not actually sure where that thought comes from. He’s never really bothered to think about things like that, and just gone about serving his kingdom. Actually, he’s never even been bothered to be angry. Perhaps it’s not him, but the darkness that’s been creeping into his heart. Taking over. When you are ruled by shadows, it is perhaps inevitable. Though perhaps he is simply angry because his home has been tossed into the hands of someone who has no reason to care what happens to it.

rhonan.

dark wolf of the valley

sorry, he's an ass, and Kyra likes the dramaz