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Arabella was not one to shy from the darker side of things, from working with the cthonic energies.  There was a time when she was, back when she was still a baby-faced young thing with little knowledge or experience and a lot of trepidation about who and what she was.  It took years for her to come to an understanding that Light and Dark were both an intrinsic part of the Universe, that darkness did not necessarily equate with evil; nor did light always equate with good.  Life and Death both were a part of the larger balance, and if either slipped its cycle to weigh down the scale... well, it wouldn't be good.  So, though she wasn't entirely comfortable with the darker side of things, she did not exclude it.

In fact, she was on a (somewhat nervous) first-name basis with Hekate Herself, which in point of fact brought a substantial number of large black dogs her way on a fairly regular basis.  These were no ordinary dogs, but messengers for the Torchbearer, beings who walked between the worlds, and they communicated to her in a sort of feral, non-verbal language which translated inside her mind as short, succinct sentences practically devoid of grammar.

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It was a golden autumn morning in Briny Cove, Maine, and the trees around the little storefront bookshop were an explosion of oranges and yellows and reds.  The salt-tinged wind was tangling itself relentlessly in Arabella Thorne's wild black curls, lifting them and tossing them about so they swept across her round, lightly freckled pixie face.  She lifted one hand and brushed the mop of ringlets away from her elfin features, blinking a pair of large, sea-gray eyes against the whirling breeze.

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The Other (and Galatea):


She had bolted.

She had run hard, and run far, and had gotten further this time than ever she had expected. But even her ferocious strength had its limits, and she fell to her knees, her clothing stained red by the grass of the mountainside.

As she knelt there, hands and knees, breath seething in her lungs, pale platinum-white hair falling all around her face, obscuring the violent visions of her violet eyes…

…she realized, to her fury and her horror, that she was not alone.

Her nostrils flared, and she recognized the scent of him instantly, and she skittered back from him, knocking a stone down the side of the mountain with an echoing clatter.

Galatea, his voice echoed in her mind, as this one did not speak using words as his compatriots did.

She scowled at him, and hissed, and scrabbled for another stone to throw at him.

His face was… featureless. And he wore white. Always only white.

He crouched before her, and he did not try to touch her. But he offered her his hand to sniff, and shook his eerie expressionless head slowly.

He would do what he needed to do to help his people survive the chaos of these Dark Ages. To rise. But he knew that Rassilon, and Omega, his comrades, his brothers, he knew that despite their vision and genius and indomitable will… that they were not flawless beings, and their hearts were badly damaged. He was not like them, this… Other.

I’m sorry, his mind spoke to her mind, and she could hear it, she could hear it in his thoughts that he spoke truth, he spoke sincerity.

I'm so sorry.

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