It feels as if the darkness will swallow them. JULIA
Her younger sister presses into her and Julia has to remind herself to be bigger than it.
At first, when the shadows start shifting, Julia tells herself that it just her imagination. It is just because she had been speaking of ghosts and haunts; she has created the setting for their minds to craft monsters in the dark because the two-toned girl had been creating monsters with her words.
But that was a long time ago, she had said.
There had been no tales about evil lurking in these woods for some time. There had been nothing said of Sylva said at all and that was why Julia thought the blazing forest might be an adventure for them both. The older filly had thought that they would find the woods empty and then they could return to neighboring Tephra, waiting for them with welcome arms.
Maybe if there had been light to see anything by, Julia would have been quicker. Maybe if there had been more to see, Julia would have seen it. There a monster creeping nearby and the adolescent can't see it. Can't see the way it looms closer, can't see the way it takes the form of a dead man that @[Starsonder] had once seen. They have only moments - mere moments where it seems that this cursed forest holds its breathe - before it releases it in the form of this creature. It becomes the least of her concerns.
Because Sonder runs and the world shifts with crystals that rise from the Earth. (Is that her sister's doing?)
Starsonder's absence becomes the foremost one. The darkness devours her sister, leaving Julia with only the sound of her fleeing hooves. The painted filly lifts one foreleg and then the other, attempting to go after her sibling. The creature has her cornered. The Night smiles at her with a grin full of menace. She reaches out only once with their shared bond and tugs - Sonder!
@[The Monsters] have at her glittering