[SWP] ACT VI: if you can dream

[Below Zero]

Below Zero

my frost philosophy will put no curse on me

The subtle hoof prints marred the sands, and with their arrival came Bel's almost immediate attention. She'd spent enough time on this island to draw an odd sort of kinship to it, a subtle understanding of its' secrets being meant to be kept a secret, and an unending curiosity to follow it's trails and paths that seem to come from nothing and everywhere at any given moment. Her head dips low, muzzle touching her chest, and for a brief moment her gills flare and the dorsal fin following her spine seems to adjust itself just a little bit taller. What ever these hoofprints were, the aqua-equine was gearing up to follow them.

This wasn't to be an easy task, however; as the hoofprints seemed to disappear into the depths of the forest. Bel was instantly moving forward, following easily for the first part . . . and then the steps changed, or rather their direction did. The forest grew deeper, thicker, darker. Vegetation grew close together, the forest darkening in a threat and making it hard to see. Silence seemed to surround Bel as she stood in a growing shade. And she took that next step forward into the darker, and darker forest. Between the closely grown trees with limbs wrapped together into an unyielding canopy blotting out the sunshine; through the bushes and vegetation that grew up like impending obstacles. And as that darkness created by forest's density - a new light came. The light started subtle, a slight shift in the hue of the mare's pelt. But as the sunlight around her grew dimmer, the more her own light came out, until she was providing a faint glow to her dark and dense surroundings. Subtle cyan glowing erupted from the striping of her pelt, the circular markings around her fins, and at the base of each of her hooves, and with this glowing, her traveling wasn't impaired by the darkness, and only the vegetation itself served any means of difficulty.

With her own biological light, she was able to see limbs and roots threatening to trip her, rocks meant to catch her unaware, thick bushes that tried to cut her off. And with the light her hooves gave off, she followed the hoof prints that were cast into relief by the cyan hue.

As the dense vegetation suddenly gave way to the clearing, Bel was forced to rapidly blink her eyes at the sudden influx of sunlight, her dual gaze glowing with the same cyan glow as her body. As the sunlight touched her skin, her own bio-engineered glow started to diminish, the cyan dying down, the glow growing subtle before gradually disappearing as she stepped further into the sunlight and towards the relic that sat in the very center of the clearing, as all the others shifted around her.

Bel was hardly listening to others, her eyes instead focusing on the relic in front of them, her gaze startled - surprised - guarded. Never had she thought she'd find the thing, never did she imagine if the rumors were true. This entire time she had just wanted to see what the island had to offer, discover its' secrets, explore it . . . the relic though . . . it was just an excuse to explore more. Now that it stood before her, however, Bel wasn't sure what to make it and silently stood still among the others, staying where she was; and waiting to see what would come from this island next.

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Notes: Of course she stays

i feel no cold, i feel no fear inside my mind
Now I'm full of energy

STAFF EDIT***
@Below Zero has rolled a 5! She has been awarded +300 signos.