The First Sun Summoner | The Darkling *on hold*

𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖘𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖓

When people see darkness they immediately think about the cold winds, the monsters within, and the fear of what might happen in that horrible place.

The flames from the candles and fires are blown out, the summer winds are overmastered by the coldness of the darkest winds, playing with water in the dark would only mean drowning...

Listening to the heartbeats of friends and family or those of the monsters. Heal themselves and the others when they can't even see the scars and wounds. Changing appearance to escape, but darkness doesn't care about the outside of a human, only what they keep within...

Finding materials to build protection, but where is it safe to build. Making bombs to destroy darkness, but where is it they can aim at...

Becoming as dark as the darkness itself, becoming as feared as it... but what will protect them from themselves. Can't escape the fire by using more fire. Even darkness is not safe from darkness.

Inferni, the ones who manipulate fire, will be put out in the process. Squallers, the ones who manipulate wind, will be overpowered by a much colder and darker wind. Tidemakers, the ones who manipulate water, will drown themself before the darkness can fill their lungs.

Heartrenders, the ones who manipulate the organs and body, will blast the hearts of their loved ones before they can realize darkness blinded them. Healers, the ones who manipulate the wounds and bones, will bleed out before noticing the scars. Tailors, the ones who manipulate appearance, will find out darkness finds them through power.

Durasts, the ones who manipulate the materials, will have no safe place to build protection around them. Alkemi, the ones who manipulate the chemicals, will explode with their bombs before they can see where to aim.

Shadow summoners, the ones who manipulate the shadows and darkness, will be making it worse and bigger than before.

Nobody can survive the cruel thing, nobody but the Sun summoners. They would destroy the darkness before it finds them, they would overpower darkness and tear it apart... But what if, the First Sun Summoner was more attracted to the darkness than the light would permit.

That one girl, the hope of the people, who only needed to glow, rather stayed in the darkness. In danger and adventure. Knowing she could escape, but could the others too eventually?

***

The uneven road made the carriage go up and down, making Astra aware of her presence in the carriage. She didn't open her eyes just yet. She remembered being half awake when putting on a fresh kefta and boots, she had taken a seat in the carriage and fell immediately back to sleep.

She didn't know where they were going, with who she was going, and why she was going. She could have been kidnapped but was too tired to think about that. Her eyes slowly opened as she began to realize she was sleeping on someone's shoulder.

Clive greeted her enthusiastically a good morning and moved his shoulder a bit around, it had probably laid still for an hour or so. Astra looked around in the carriage and spotted the bored looks of the others. She sat crammed in between Clive and someone she hadn't seen before. In front of her sat the Darkling and Amirah.

They all stared at her while she tried to stretch. Outside, the horses' identical movements could be heard while the wheels of the carriage rode over the bumpy roads. It had been dawn when they departed and now it was almost noon.

Astra still hadn't a clue what she was doing there but couldn't speak yet. Her body was still waking up. "Thanks for sleeping on my shoulder, I could sit in the carriage as long as you slept. I don't like horses." Clive sounded too joyful and it made Astra feel really moody. She nodded confused in his way. He turned himself to the little window and was clearly watching someone.