This keening soul;
She stabs at the beast, but it disintegrates before her. It bleeds black, thick and thin and cold as ice. That black rises as smoke, it reaches to smother all the horses that attack it.
Ah that black tastes of eternity. It tastes of an endless void. But Leto is shed-star born. She knows what space tastes like upon her tongue. Her heart is wild in her chest as the darkness consumes her. It swallows her whole and yet she reaches with her magic and her blood warms in answer. The stars keen from their places within the sky – within space. They know such darkness too, they light it up like fireflies and they have no fear of that same darkness that billows about her below.
With her veins aglow the darkness is not so whole and Leto scrambles within the black as she pulls a single star from the sky. It descends like a divine arrow, it slices through the dark, keen and wicked, bringing justice upon the darkness that dares to peel itself from the sky and make its home upon the earth.
It sets the darkness alight. It cuts it up with fearless bravery. In the light it brings, Leto spies light as it shines with salvation. She lunges toward it and out, out, out into the daylight that feels now as bright as the sun itself. She quints for a moment and as her gaze clears she sees two foals run for a moat, but a bear – a creature like a tornado with butterflies bloomed across its skin is moving to consume the children.
Without a thought, with her skin still alight with star-fire, Leto turns from the archway and the moat and sets herself upon the beast, set to bring the universe’s justice upon it. The stars are trembling, and already one is loosening itself from its place in the sky. It waits, keen for Leto’s command. The sky fires are burning and they laugh wild across the girl’s skin.
OOC: Leto has chosen option 2 and has used her iridescent feather to advance to this point.
| "speaks" | notes: table 2/2!! this was super fun to make
