She was among the first that gathered when the High Priestess called; her face wrinkled with worry, as everyone who walked near her dripped with the same fearful and dampening auras. It was like walking among shadows dotted with intense oranges.
It was not only her mothers who had received the dream. The Daystar simmered among the darkness, the tufts of her ears flicking as she listened to the interpretation of the plaguing dream that some others had. Aelia remembers her previous night's dream as an all-encompassing feeling of darkness and dread — a vision of a dark cloud festering over the Respite while shadows burst from the ground, their whispy arms tainting whatever they touched —
Confusion and turmoil clamored together within her, mixing like a bad case of food poisoning at the mention of Fate's Respite being unsafe. It was something bubbling underneath the surface, something they could all feel and start to see the symptoms of — but for finally someone to say it became all too real.
'Seek out these Runes the Dream Wolf spoke of.' The vivid scene of the wolf, their voice panicked and hurried, time slipping away with the fading of their form; her mother's voice had painted the scene for those who the visitor did not get through to.
The thought of leaving home — and going to Dawnbreak? Northfall? The festering, bone-chilling, traumatizing North? The thought of it makes her shiver, her teeth clench, and mind wander... She can't go to Dawnbreak. She can't think about him. She can't see his sisters. And Northfall, 'oh the cold', she remembered her violet-eyed mother speaking of it not so fondly due to the chill.
Her eyes shift to those who respond to Valeska, and catch long on Cyrus as he offers the expanse of his long legs and gifted knack for going the distance.
I'll stay with you all for now, search for Runes nearby,she returned her gaze to her mothers,
and be sure to usher you both out if the time comes to leave.Worried visions of them dying in the Respite, the shadowy plague skimming over their rotting bones — No. She wouldn't let that happen.


