She had been caught by the look in the bear's eyes. The chrysalis had swung clear as the surface of a lake. Orange wings had pulsed wetly behind it, like they were begging to be born, or free, or anything but trapped in the hole in a monster's face. And so Thana had stepped closer to the wall between the horses and the bear with her own eyes aching each time she met the bear's look (that wasn't really a look at all).
The other horses had gone on, or gone back, and she still did nothing but mirror each step the bear took. Her lungs had mirrored the pulsing wings and her heart become nothing more than an echo of the trembling sand that sang. Each time the bear stepped left she followed, and each time it moved right she followed.
And when it stopped and lifted that empty stare to her own (finally!) she had curled her neck towards the beast. The wind felt like a touch between the hollows of her horn and her tail felt like a gavel hung from the bones of her spine. They make savage sounds at each other, Thana and the bear, and she thinks that this is the only moment on the island that anything had understand all the rot running through her at all.
Some had called her lovely and wild, but she knew better. Over and over again her heart told her words are a lies.
The only truth is this-- two monsters meeting across a field that neither of them made, with holes in their head that cannot see anything but dead. Thana's smile is all tooth and rusted blood. She steps closer..
And then the island starts to fall apart.
The wall between the bear and Thana disintegrates and they turn together towards the place where the island is starting to swallow up the island. The bear follows closely and neither pauses until the ground levels out beneath their hooves.
Thana looks at the bear, just before he turns, and neither of them blinks.
The only truth is this---
Using her last extra item for a second roll
STAFF EDIT***
@Thana has rolled a 2 and 4! They have been awarded +3 exp and +250 signos.
