[b]"Yet the darkness here swirls around like a runaway plague. What plans do you have lurking beneath it's morbid surface?"[/b]

"None. This power cannot repel light and darkness both." She insists, her voice not really audible over the howling winds that blow from the spire, air trying to escape the aura while more is forced in by the outside pressure. He never trusted her and she didn't expect him to start. Despite the evidence of his very eyes however he still refused to accept what she had confirmed.

[i]Fine[/i] She sulked in silence. [i]I care not if he winds up losing himself to the fear.[/i]

She glowered in her shadows, watching on as he pressed into the now increasingly thin cliff that fed into the great pit that surrounded the spire. There was much eye rolling had as he gave a loud tirade in an effort to inspire his men, speaking of darkness as though her vessel wasn't within a leisurely power-walk's distance of them.

Then he rose his lance, leveling it at the black spire as light gathered at it's tip. With a great burst of power a beam of divine light erupted forth, surging in a narrow line at the spire. With all that great power behind such a blast it was rather underwhelming when the beam was harmlessly reflected by the black color's impervious gloss. His shot went streaking out into the night, a radiant flare disappearing into the sky's endless dark.

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She could see the predator god hustle up to her whilst she watched the results of Hyperion's prolonged exposure to the fear. As he clung to the shadows he was ever the more visible to her, wearing her domain like a form fitting cloak around his body. He was well and far from catching her off guard as he kept behind cover from lit open spaces. He proceeded to pester her with talk of shaping the world, something she had little care for.

"You mean in shaping it's surface... I have little need for light's realm." She spoke as much as she ever had, hardly much at all and at little more than a breathy whisper at that. He asked of the spire and she turned her focus back onto the events that were transpiring, trying to best read the situation. She couldn't let them steal away the twin strand's power. She only needed wait and seek her opportunity to approach without succumbing to it's power.

"It must not belong to neither Hyperion nor..." She watched Iarus who seemed previously torn as he forced himself towards the spire turn to them, transformed by the aura's power into a new state of being.

"Him."

His words rang hollow. She cared not what he announced for the spire had her undivided attention at that very moment. The color had continued to recede, pulling downwards whilst leaving the grey top of the spire bare. As the color pulled away it left the spire's true substance to be seen by all: Mere stone shaped into a smooth yet unnatural formation. All the while the white and grey strands seemed to dance ever tighter, winding together not unlike fibers of wool being spun into a single thread.

The ground was trembling but not out of fear. The aura was now beginning to recede. What earth was backed up so tightly now yearned to force itself into the gap, the weight of the soil pushing the ground back into place with each inch the aura yielded. Due to this shifting in the earth below the surfaces above were in turmoil. With the ground churning many things were being shaken, thrown down or even dragged beneath it all. Bushes and even trees could be seen and heard crunching and rustling as the earth dragged them both forward and down in answer to the loss of fear they all once held.

Oao's concern for this was little as her manifestations form was neither important to lose nor particularly land locked. Those who depended upon the earth to bear the weight of their very feet however may have found themselves in fair trouble however.

Even if the shortening of the aura allowed light more purchase to shine near it the darkness inside the spire itself was still known to her. With the center still a fair hot zone of divine aura however she was still certain that extending her reach into it would affect her no less negatively than it was for her siblings.
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