As Fellwing attempts to spy on the Darkness, she feels herself having an out-of-body experience where she sees herself from a distance. She then feels herself zooming out further, floating up through the walls of the cave and into the sky. She stays suspended up in the air long enough so that she has a perfect bird's-eye-view of the entire island. She can pinpoint where the tree marking Echo's cave is, the beach where they first landed and a gap in the trees where she assumes the old stronghold might be. Once she's had enough time to get a perfect grasp of the landscape and where everything is, she suddenly feels a strange heaviness overtake her astral form and she starts plummeting back to the ground. She lands somewhere near the island's center, not too far Echo's cave. The trees are at their tallest here, shielding it from the sun and moon's beams. The ground is a little less marshy, solid enough to support the trees and several large thorny bushes and shrubs. Fellwing's descent comes to a sudden halt over one such bush, and it takes a moment for her to refocus.
In the bushes directly below her lies a sky blue dragon with a mane and wings composed of white feathers. Fellwing doesn't really know this dragon, but she's seen him around, and just by looking at him, a name enters her mind: Altostratus. He is unconscious, and entangled within the vines and branches of the bush. Thorns are piercing into his skin, and black veins seem to be forming around the wounds, just like what had been happening with Kyte's wing.
Fellwing starts float once more, staying close to the ground but not close enough to reach it. She sees more vines, ensnaring two other dragons. One is a young longtooth dragon with a dark, iridescent green, and given how many more vines are currently tangled around them than their comrades, they appear to have been here the longest. Their eyes are tightly shut, and they are lying so still that it takes Fell a moment to confirm that they are, thankfully, still breathing. This dragon is Maug.
The third and final dragon is of bearded age, and at first, when Fell spies her eyes glinting out from the branches, the Seer thinks she might be awake. On closer inspection, however, Fell realises her eyes are actually closed, it's just her eyelids are translucent, giving her eyes a foggy and distant look when shut. This dragon is Vipereyes.
All three are slowly being corrupted in their sleep by these thorny vines and branches, not quite likely anything Fellwing would have seen on island before. Once she notices them, however, she realises that all this trees and bushes in this area are covered in them. Moving through here is going to be tricky, especially for larger dragons. For Fellwing and her friends, however, they might just be able to avoid this if they remain light on their feet. As Fellwing may be considering this, the vision suddenly freezes, the lines of objects becoming a little fuzzier, as if the vision is about to suddenly end. Then things become sharply clear again, and Fellwing realises that there is, in fact, a fourth dragon present in this area, and Fellwing can't quite tell if they've just appeared now orif they've always been standing here and she's only just notice them.
This dragon is about the size of a bearded dragon, though much slimmer in build, almost to the point emaciation. This might be why the dragon is unbound, is currently moving around the vines with little trouble. It is, as Alpin had attempted to describe, a black dragon, but not like Fellwing or, in fact, any other dragon she may have encountered. Attempting to focus on it for too long is dizzying, as if Fell's mind is unable to fully accept that it's there, even as it draws closer. It passes by each of the entrapped dragons, pausing over each of them only for a second before continuing. There is something about it's movement that just feels unnatural, but Fellwing can't seem to find the words to explain how or why. Everything about this dragon, if that's what this being even is, feels wrong, and the sense of disorientation grows within her as it gets closer and closer. Once it's finished checking on its captives, it pauses again, raising its head if it's heard something.
Then, after a long pause, it looks at Fellwing and only when its fully staring at her does she finally realise that this being has no eyes, in fact, any facial features at all. Yet, despite this, it is very much looking at Fellwing and, more distressingly, the Seer realises that it's not the only thing looking at her. Something, or perhaps someone, is looking at Fellwing through this creature. This realisation feels like being suddenly dunked in cold water, and Fellwing is forced to stare at this creature for longer than she really wants to before the vision finally comes to an end, and she finds herself standing back with her friends in Echo's cave.
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