At first all she can see is darkness between coral fangs and seaweed gums. Her blades only drink of sand, and sand, and more sand. No matter how deeply she drinks or digs there is nothing but sand. Thana wants bone-roots and ocean ichor and all the things that make monsters and beasts and gods. If there are others with her she does not head them or their own reasons for attacking.
But when her tail blade should find the roof of the snake's mouth, and her hooves should find themselves dancing wickedly across tongue instead of shore, Thana no longer can see all the bits of beast outside the darkness.
There is only darkness, only black, only nothing to wet this wild hate coursing through her.
So Thana attacks the darkness thinking it is the belly of the beast. All the blackness tastes like rot on her tongue. Every bit of her sings. Her belly sings for the dark, her blade for the way it shatters around her like space at the point of her star. The sound her hooves make against the nothing is a song of death-knell sighs and sorrowful whispers of things she's long forgotten she's wanted to discover. On and on she fights the nothing like a thing unleashed--
like a thing that has found home.
And just as she settles into the void (her broken, weary heart sighs in contentment) the blackness dissolves and she's at the beginning of a path she didn't know she was heading for. The red rain is sweet on her tongue, although it burns when it runs down the tracks of sand-coated wounds on her side. All she can see when she blinks is red, red, red.
Thana is learning to hate that color-- red.
She's about to walk towards it, through it, into it, when somewhere in the distance a bear roars. To her it sounds like a discovery, like a bit of her has crawled free from between this awful magic-made cage. It sounds like freedom.
When she turns towards to the bear it seems to her that the rain quickens to a needle-sharp melody through the hollows of her horn. And it sounds like---
Hurry.
@thana chooses option two and is using one of her second chance items
