Titan, although bearing no magic, was linked to mother nature and had perhaps the most powerful instincts of all of the three siblings. He was most loved by nature, and so nature told him as much as she could, and shared with him not only her worries for the present, but what she feared would come to pass in the future. And Titan, with his openness and attunement to nature and the world, was ready to accept that these visions might be truth, and was able to delve the deeper into them for that.
Titan saw a great black beast, a wolf of Helheim itself, waiting for him in the future: Titan saw that these lizard-beasts waiting for them ahead were not dragons, any more than they were living and sentient creatures: they were true monsters of the Void, entities of destruction that were more synthetic and mechanical than they were living and alive.
Morgan, too, had terrible dreams of darkness: a darkness where she was alone, and had been betrayed. A darkness where there was no one left for her to depend on: not pony, not creature of the night, not sibling nor friend nor ally. She was alone... and there was something terrible here. Something evil, and vile, and monstrous. It was the master of not darkness, but destruction; it brought with it a killing light. It had goals, and objectives, and a terrible plan for them all...
She would remember little of her visions when she woke up, except for a lingering fear of order, the realization that even 'good things' could be terrible and evil... and a worry that something terrible was waiting for them, only playing a game with them for now with these terrible creations.
And lastly, Sol had a vision that she would not share with the others, even after both Titan and Morgan confessed their worries to her. What Sol saw, though, had nothing to do with the darkness in the north, or the monsters that might await them in the future. She did not worry for the enemies that were waiting for them, or the fiends that had yet to raise their heads, or whether or not they were only pawns in some grand, cruel game.
What Sol saw was herself, standing atop a castle in the future, alone, after losing her brother, and having been forced to calm her own sister's darkness. What Sol saw was that one day, she would be alone, just like she had been born into this world. What Sol saw was what she feared most: that in spite of all she was trying to do, in spite of everything she was trying to give to the world... she was going to end up alone. She was going to be betrayed and abandoned.
And what she feared most of all, was what she would become when that time came.
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