There's a Change in the Air

Whatever lust they'd built up and whatever silent promises they'd made, it all disappeared with the shifting of the atmosphere. Artorias wanted her to stick close to him. Well... she wanted that too. As the pair of wolves moved forward, Bowen kept her shoulder touching some part of her giant sibling. For comfort, for safety, for reassurance. She had also noted how unnaturally quiet the world had become. Bowen's gaze shifted over the plains before them and she turned her head to look behind them as well. Viridian eyes widened as she looked back. It looked as though they'd come through a doorway into whatever this blue glowing place was. Behind them, the world was darker, despite the plains being illuminated by stars. Ahead of them, that iridescent glow and the hundreds of fireflies cast everything in a much brighter light.

Artorias questioned her and Bowen could only shake her head at first, though she eventually found her voice. "No. What do you think it means?" Raising one paw, Bowen turned her wrist, bringing her paw upwards slowly in an attempt to rest one of the blue sparks atop it. Once her paw was close, the light blinked out. In the brightness, she should have been able to still see the switched off firefly as it flew away from her, but there was nothing. The light and whatever created it was just... gone.

In her amazement, Bowen had stopped walking and Artorias was a short distance ahead of her. The girl began to hurry forward, but the fireflies seemed to converge before her, throwing up a wall of bright, cerulean light that stopped the fae in her tracks. She closed her eyes against the flare of light and turned her head away. The lights seemed as though they were trying to keep Bowen and Artorias apart, but there was no way. Not after they'd just found one another again. Steeling herself, Bowen closed her eyes and pushed through the curtain of light, hurrying back to her brother's side. She didn't understand what was happening, but she knew that she didn't like it. "I think we should go back." There was an odd feeling within her, as though she'd stepped through a ghost when she broke through the wall of lights.

"Bowen & Artorias"