She knew not what had called her to this place, or where this place was -- all that the silver-skinned horse knew was that she had answered it, and that the orbs that she had conjured still lingered in a loose circle around her. Their ominous presence -- which had once been spurned by their creator -- were now the grey youth's vessels of her confusion and misunderstanding. The cause of such emotions was both easy to point out and hard to follow; Sulwyn did not feel at home with herself, and she felt that she had recently begun to do and say things that she never would have before.

One example would be the way she had reacted to the frosted ebony fae, Valka, during their encounter in the Threshold of these lands. She still couldn't wrap her head around why she had spoken to the mare with vague threats, she hadn't even given herself the chance to get to know the distraught vixen. Her golden gaze had skimmed over the towering creature's body and its wounds; her delicate ears had picked up the pride in the dark unicorn's voice when she spoke of outrunning monsters that had emerged from the foothills; and that was all that the young mare had needed to know to become so protective of her home.

All it had taken was a string of words, a pair of gashes, and a pointed weapon perched upon a child's head to set the grulla off the edge, and falling from her usual, quiet self.

Sulwyn suddenly found herself yearning the company of another being, and not that of the life-stealing spheres that formed a protective ring around her. A silver tail lashed at dark hocks piteously as their mistress plunged herself deeper into despair. Although she might be a shy creature, she definitely did not wish to be a solitary one, but her past meeting had started to make the mare think she was better off alone. She may have a herd to welcome her home when her journey ends, but what the sun-branded mare did lack, were friends.

Now you're just being selfish. You have Thor to look forward to meeting again, and perhaps even Hellena would be willing to keep company with you. A grim look plastered itself onto her slim features, unsure that even those two equines would be welcoming to her after her recent failure at claiming the young Valka. As her self-deprecating thoughts took over, charcoal hooves continued to trudge on, slowly making their way towards the general direction of the Edge. It was when she was no longer paying attention to where she was going that she stumbled upon a gathering of mortals, all looking attentively at one violet deity.

Shaking out long, ashen tresses and smothering each hovering orb with a bewildered expression upon her face, Sulwyn tentatively walked up to a horned young brute, setting a few feet between them to stay out of his space. Casting a confused gaze at the other two horses who had gathered here -- a uniquely marked pegasus and a luminescent, porcelain unicorn -- the mare found it hard to relax in their presence. Without even looking into their faces she knew that she had never met them before, she was far too sheltered for that. The only two places that she had ever gone to -- not including the Threshold, where she had first come to Helovia -- were the Edge and the Blue, where it was mainly her herdmates that she saw day to day.

I guess that this meeting could be considered a form of exposure, in any case.

Golden eyes turned away from the mortals that stood beside her and rested their hesitant gaze onto the dazzling hybrid's lavender form. In the few weeks that the silver fae had been here, she had never had the opportunity to rest her ever-widening pools onto such a beautiful creature. The unicorn's magnificent, purple wings folded gracefully at her sides and her long, spiraled horn perched upon her tiara dazzled in the silver light of the moon.

Sulwyn found that her body itched in anticipation and that her breaths came out in gasps in the presence of this mesmerizing mare. It was her first time meeting with a Goddess, and even thought no one had said it aloud when the grulla had joined them, she could feel that that was what she was. And that, like the reflections that came off of her pointed horn, she was the Goddess of the Moon.
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