Into Darkness We Ride Update: Chapter 5 Our Last Journey · 12:44pm Oct 18th, 2014
The figure prostrated itself beneath the immense shadow. Tangible darkness rolled off of her form and weighed him down, holding him prone through fear.
“A t-thousand apologies…” the doomsayer muttered, pulling back the hood of his cloak. “There was an… incident, milady.”
The darkness seethed, driving icy needles into his nerves. “Were you seen?”
He shook his head. “Only by a dead pony.”
She growled angrily, causing the black mists swirling around her form to condense into patches of frost on his coat, and he shivered all the more violently.
“Need I remind you what is at stake for you, slave?”
He pressed his head against the dirt, clenching his eyes closed. “N-no…”
A pair of raven wings spread threateningly above him like those of a fallen angel, casting a shadow over the darkness of night itself. “Then you would do well to remember that you are only useful to me so long as you remain uncaptured,” she snarled. “Explain yourself…”
Slowly, he raised his eyes from the ground, peering up at the darkened monarch. “I… I…”
A pause.
“It is as I thought,” she sneered, inky eyes narrowing. “You merely lack the courage to–”
“Th-the Elements of Harmony, milady!” he blurted.
She twitched, eyes narrowing and consuming what light remained into them as though they were black holes.
“Go on…”
“Th-they… I did as you asked,” he wept, burying his face into his hooves. “The citizens… they heeded my words… they were convinced the end approached. Hope lay dying within them,” he sniffed. “But they…”
The figure pulled back the hood on her cloak. A multihued black-and-gray mane rolled off her head.
