Eclipses
by Ashika
She's been waiting her whole life for this and she isn't ready. Simply put, she has grace in the eye of the beholder and it burns like a thousand moons. Silver and serenity are dark and fathomless underneath all that false light.
"Are you afraid of the dark?"
Mostly she says no, but when she looks inside herself and sees the darkness that betrays all mortals she shivers and lies to herself.
She wants to achieve her ascension. She wants to show that she is worthy of her friends, even though no one was ever bad enough to deserve her. Her friends want her to know that she never deserved them.
She's waited her whole life for this and she'll never be ready. So when she ascends she rules with serenity and grace – masking that darkness. And the people don't know that being ruled is its own sort of hell.