[PQ - in progress] like a world of noise

[Everclear]

EVERCLEAR

-- a dreamer neither lost nor found ;

Only now, some two centuries after his birth, does Everclear approach the Mountain with intent. All this time before he has been content in his life, wary of asking for anything more than he has been given, but now he has decided that perhaps he may be worthy of venturing here with a true wish in mind.

It feels rather odd to even consider asking for more than he feels he deserves, but he believes in his purpose now. He believes that, with just a touch of extra power beyond his natural abilities, he may be better able to serve his beloved home.

So he treks through the stones, up the slopes, silent all the while for he knows the faeries work on their own whims despite what pleas may be made. Eventually he stops and waits in one of the more well-traveled landings, quiet and alone but for the warming winds around him.

@Officials 
Everclear is questing for the 4-space Angel-Shifting trait.

5 posts which explain why he wants this power:

• 04/09 - https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=31497&pid=123783#pid123783 - outright muses on what-could-have-beens if he'd had the power to inspire hope in others and wonders if that's why he's been given a halo
  
• 04/26 - https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=31582&pid=123940#pid123940 - mentions wanting to be an angel, to protect the Gates
  
• 05/17 - https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=31582&pid=124116#pid124116 - again, mentions wanting to be an angel
  
• 05/21 - https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=31582&pid=124165#pid124165 - reflectively considers himself as having been an angel in the past and a bringer of hope
  
• 05/24 - https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=31582&pid=124190#pid124190 - another reflection where he thinks of having been an angel; also begins trying to help Deiti cope with her ‘demons’
  

5 other posts (most of which also subtly explain or indicate his desire for this power):

• 03/19 - https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=31439&pid=123539#pid123539 - hopeful for the future of the kingdom and prays for its safety
  
• 03/25 - https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=31542&pid=123621#pid123621 - again discusses hope and lightness of heart and how he is glad that evil seems to be gone for now
  
• 03/26 - https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=31439&pid=123652#pid123652 - tries to buff up Myrna’s sense of worthiness as queen/leader
  
• 04/26 - https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=31497&pid=123941#pid123941 - reflects on the past and how he had nearly been killed at one point but was given another chance at life because of his hope
  
• 03/15 - https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=31495&pid=123493#pid123493 - finds a lost filly in the Meadow and offers her help, tries to give her hope about finding her parents
  

[Officials]

It watches him from behind the stones, eyes bright. The fairy had felt Everclear coming long before he began his trek to the Mountain. It intends to watch him for much longer still, to see how far he makes it down the path that he began many years ago.

What the protective stallion needs is not the fairy’s to give, and yet…

Surely there is no harm in removing obstacles along the path of one as good-hearted as this?

Having convinced itself, the fairy slips away, sinking into the world around it, leaving behind just a bit of magic. It is carried on the wind, nothing but a little orb of glowing light, and it brushes warmly against the dapple stallion’s forehead before seeping into him.

Return when you have mastered these.

It is not immediately clear what ‘these’ are, or even where the words had come from. Soon enough, Everclear will understand. For now, he is left alone atop the Mountain.

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Everclear successfully rolled for a quest. Everclear has been granted wings, which he will need to develop (in whatever way you choose - wakes up with them fully formed, grow slowly, etc) and learn to use over the span of at least three threads. Link those threads in a response here to receive the next part of the quest.