Sleep did not come as easily as it once did to the Daystar. Usually, when the day was said and done, so was she. Yet, in recent times, it laid darker than ever. Shadows overtook the valley; plants wilted away, colors faded, and the plague's rot and ruin had seeped into the water sources. The situation was dire, that much was easy to see. Runes had been hard to come by, and more visions of dread had overtaken Aelia's dreams. Dehydration and insomnia made up the frenzied version of the Daystar, searching, searching, searching, and all she'd found was... Nothing.
Blankly, her mind slipping away from her, the white noise of the river soothed the edges of her brain; she might have been able to fall asleep if it weren't for the tempting draw of the acidic water. Of course, she does not sip, yet stares into the depths, the draw of it so strong, yet her will holding her back.
A glimmer sparks hope in her peripheral view — something to grab her attention, someone who always would.' Her heart stung, she missed him. Was this the Five's way of making them run into one another? This bordering dream-like state that Aelia found herself phasing in and out of?
Maybe there would have been a grand reunion in store for the twins — that is, if it hadn't entered the scene. It began with a sloshing; a noise that radiated through Aelia's bones and resulted like a shock, her fur prickled on end as she felt seen in a way she'd ever known before by praying to the Five — yet something held it back, held her gaze down, her stance now huddled like a small child hiding from a monster who crept in the closet, waiting for the perfect time to bust out...
'RUN,' was all Aelia needed to hear to snap out of it. The sentence barely finished before she laid her eyes on Amaris again, bolting towards her twin like a strike of lightning — not even the threat of sure demise would stop her from protecting the Moon.
She slammed herself like a stone into his shoulder. If he was still under the fear-mongering monster's presence, then she would be the one to snap him from it,
You heard them, Amaris, RUN.


