@Yael

Isopia found the mare's question intriguing and thought provoking. Her golden eyes scanned the snow-saturated ground for several minutes as they walked, contemplating what it was the mare had asked.

The demi-goddess often thought in absolutes, equations, or tensed-logics. Rarely was she descriptive or poetic, though despite the fact that the accented-mare was asking for a visual account of Helovia, Isopia didn't quite think that she was meant to paint her a portrait with her words. Though, perhaps she was wrong about that.

"I would say.." Isopia began, her tone careful and her tongue carefully rounding out the words as she spoke. "..that these lands have many secrets." Physically, Helovia was a land like any other, really (though how could Isopia know that, given that she had never left these borders?) It had mountains and valleys, rivers and streams. It was bordered by an ocean, professed deserts and lush meadows ... such things were to be found elsewhere in the world. So surely they were not what made Helovia unique. "There is much hidden behind what can be seen. Beautiful meadows that hide dead bodies, towering trees to commemorate where atrocities occurred. Deserts and barren lands forged from wrath and regret." What did it all come down to?

Isopia's voice trailed off as they walked, and inwardly the demi-goddess began to picture mentally what it was her words were describing. It was history. Knowledge. That was what made Helovia unique, secretive, and magical. One could walk by the trees growing in the Veins of the Gods and never know that they were planted there to memorialize the souls taken by the Moon Goddess. 

"Helovia is a beautiful place, like many beautiful places. It is only knowledge that unlocks its secrets and reveals the hidden depths."

Isopia thought of the spring hidden deep within the caves below Helovia's Heart - how her Father had placed it there to heal the sickness that befell Helovia, causing its inhabitants to lose their minds and become wraiths of death. That spring was still there, only now its waters simply ran cool and clear.

"Perhaps that is not the answer you were seeking." She added after a moment, large shoulders shrugging slightly. "But it is not the part of Helovia which you can see which makes it special. It's the part that you can't."