It had been a bold, brash thing to suggest that they venture into Sylva. JULIA
Julia had heard the old stories. There had been a darkness in this forest long before the current one that came to overtake Beqanna. There were rumors and whispers of monsters and horrors that kept most away from this blazing wood.
And yet, while the Tephran is gazing around, she glimpses enough of the color around to her to think that this place might be beautiful. Could be beautiful if this territory could chase away its shadows. But where a tragedy stains one generation, it continues to bleed out like an unhealed wound for the ones that come after. Nothing is ever truly in the past, Julia thinks. It finds a way to remerge in one way or another.
But why Sylva? Why had she suggested that she and Sonder explore this fire-red forest?
"No," she tells her younger sister. Papa would have a fit if he knew we were here. She thinks to herself. The painted mare gives her bald head a slight shake and glances down towards the smaller filly. "They said it used to be haunted," Julia explains and her voice drops to almost a whisper, as if she was expecting the ghosts to be listening. A smile returns on her pale face when she banishes the thought away, "but that was a long time ago." How long, she isn't sure.
Long enough that it was before she was born.
Since they are daughters of Warlight (and therefore granddaughters of Kagerus and Solace), Julia knows better than to just walk into the territory. When they reach the intersecting edges of Tephra and Sylva, she starts to slow. Her ears prick forward and back, trying to discern the sound of anybody that might be nearby. Did the Sylvans had diplomats like the other kingdoms?
More importantly, was there anyone in Sylva at all? "I don't," she admits to @[Starsonder] before the world goes dark. But the shadows come crawling from their beds beneath the wicked trees and they spread, reaching and enveloping everything. "Stay near me," Julia thinks to her sister. It had been one thing to attempt an adventure to a spooky place in daylight; the night is another entirely.
@[The Monsters] please mess with Julia's immortality