For once, it was Titan who was pushing Sol, and the mare soon came to wonder if she had not been underestimating him even after the many years they had spent together. For in spite of lacking horns or wings, Titan was still outracing her over even the most dangerous and difficult terrain, forcing Sol to every so often call him back as she used both magic and flight just to keep track of him.
For the first time, it made Sol realize just how important the idea of this 'little family' was to her so-called 'brother:' even though he'd never met her, even though all logic railed against the idea of a 'sister' being born to them from the stars, and Titan somehow discovering this from the wind and the trees and the grasses, Titan was still throwing himself into the idea of finding her... and more, his enthusiasm, belief, and determination were all drawing her along with him.
But she couldn't help but trust him, and believe in him, all the same. And part of her, perhaps, had even started to want it to be true, to want another member to join their strange little family. Titan, whether she liked it or not, gave her something she had never truly had before, beyond existing solely for the sake of discovering the truth behind her identity. And she liked having meaning, and feeling like there could be more to her than just blood and metal; she liked the idea that there was hope in her future, not just a discovery waiting in her past that she knew, all too well, could lead to nothing but more disappointment and heartache.
So she followed Titan, willingly. Even when it seemed like they would run forever, she followed: Titan, however, always seemed to know when she was honestly tired, as if he had learned her limits better than she herself knew them. And this, considering Sol's thought-unmatched control of herself, left Sol both embarrassed... and wondering just how much the silly-seeming stallion actually knew about her. She had never thought that there was any truth to the idea that you could know someone better than you knew yourself, unless you were a fool... but maybe the only fool here wasn't Titan after all, no matter how often he played that role.
The journey took them into a desolate land, that was cold and harsh: rocky tundra lay all around, and there was evil in the air, thrumming through the night. This whole world felt like a place of pain and suffering and darkness, and yet Titan led her on through it, saying that their sister would be born here... but worried now, that they would be too late to catch her. Her fall would be harder and rougher, he said, and it made Sol feel uneasy.
In the broken lands, they came to a place where the rock was bloody and smashed: here, Titan stopped, then said quietly they were too late, and she had been taken away by the evil things of this evil place. And Sol felt a strange pain in her breast for the sister she had never known, before it flared up: and before she knew what she was doing, it was not Titan, but her who took charge, the mare saying sharply: "Then we find her."
And Titan smiled at his sister, before he simply nodded: and in that moment, they were finally united as siblings, and ready to find and rescue their never-met and yet already-loved sister from the clutches of the evil things that had swept her away.
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