Thread: Rise of Darkness (Alvis & Malicious Lullaby)

Itd been like a dream. No, in fact it was a dream. All the years of being buried deep in her books and studies, testing and going through the trials, she was finally landing a big break in her world. A break to further her studies, her skills and improve on her knowledge of this world she loved and was highly devoted in. Brought to the Academy when she was orphaned and trained under the best of the best, she was now being shipped off to train under even more of the best, a mage, with promise of reaching her truest potential. Packed and ready to go, she went outside where she was to await her means of transportation. She saw an elder being taken off via dragon and her hands released the two bits of luggage she carried, jaw kissing the floor. She was going to fly on a dragon? The look of excitement was ever evident in her eyes and on her face, doing all she could not to just start jumping, eager to meet her new flying companion. So imagine her major disappointment when a carriage rolled up. Well not disappointment but justokay a little bit of disappointment since she could have imagined her arrival at her new lodgings with a big smile on her face. Oh well, a carriage that pulled itself would befun? Looking around, she saw no one, not even her old teacher. A small sigh escaped from her. She kind of hoped that shed get to say goodbye to him. Putting her two bags she had in the trunk compartment of the carriage, she was about to climb on when Ewyn! Turning, she saw with wide eyes, her teacher and bounded from the carriage. He was an older man, much older in fact, but he still had the pep in his step of a man in his early thirties. She ran to him and hugged him full on, nearly causing him to flat out fall onto the ground. It made him chuckle as his arms wrapped around his star pupil. You actually thought I would let you go without a proper goodbye, didnt you silly girl? She pulled back from his embrace and looked like she might cry. No one was here. I-I thought Shush now. He wiped the few tears that did escape her eyes away with the pads of his thumbs, his eyes crinkling at the corners as his lips turned up in a warm smile, covered by the bushiness of his beard. It was a heartfelt goodbye, one that left Ewyn feeling still so sullen during her carriage ride. But after about an hour, she pepped up again, her excitement getting the better of her. Ewyn Conal was always this bursting little ball of energy. Even when she was just a little one, she used to drive her old teacher up the wall because he could hardly contain her energy, it was all too much. Until he learned just what kind of energy it was and just how to hone it. He put her into the school a few years after taking in the little orphan as his own. It took her some time to adapt. She had the attention span of a gold fish but once her energy was put to good use and properly channeled, well she didnt have the attention span of a gold fish often anymore. She still could. Like right now. It felt like it had been hours on her journey so far when it probably wasnt even that long and she was having a hard time sitting still. She had fire in her heart, her hair mirroring a similar color of fire, just a little bit darker and not as orange. It was curly, a mess, often got in the way and she had to tie it back with a green ribbon that her teacher gave her but right now, she let it be free, feeling free like she was at the moment. Although if she were being honest, at this very moment, she felt like a caged animal wanting badly to get out. As if she just might grab the bars on the carriage door window and scream, Let me out of here! It was a journey of sleeping, flopping about inside the carriage and even climbing out of it to sit on the top of it, getting some fresh air. Soon shed climb back inside and lay half on a bench, half off of it. When shed sleep, itd only be until the sun came back. For when the sun was up, so was she. So she must be awake. It was torture!