Midnight had clung to her former self, continuing to draw energy from the Alladharian Dimension and maintaining her Rothar even after her encounter with the DΔϢΠΙΠƓϛ. But Rothar could not be darkness. In the dimension of energies, Rothar was something, while darkness was nothing. In the Material Dimension, darkness thrived where light was absent, and in the Alladharian Dimension, darkness embodied the void where no energies lingered. Despite this, Midnight had endeavoured to conceal her Rothar within her darkness, to obscure something within nothing, substance within void, to hide a voice within silence.
Midnight had decided that neither she nor her wizard must cling to what they once were, that they must not live for the broken parts within and the barred paths ahead of them. And so, as she burrowed her teeth into the shadebeast for dear life, she purged her all from the feeble remnants of her diminished Rothar. The knowledge already lay within her, as did her control. She commanded her darkness to emulate the shadebeast’s onslaught; to tear away every last strand of Rother from her original essence.
As her darkness obeyed, she surrendered the broken fragments of her beast essence to the singular fragment of darkness essence. Once again, Midnight lost all ties to her physical senses, knowing they would not return. From the nothing emerged the senses of darkness. She felt the surges of darkness within her attach to her darkness essence — the link that from now on defined Midnight’s existence. The darkness wove through the torn remnants of her beast essence, which now felt strangely alien. Midnight sensed the darkness essence shift, reaching and embedding its strands into this essence, connecting, claiming, and consuming it. And as only the darkness essence remained, the surges of darkness within expanded from under her skin to envelop every part of her being, from her teeth to her claws, from her fur to her eyes — unfettered by the sprites, Midnight transformed into a true being of darkness, not by concealing herself within, not by delving into it and merging, but from within, from her God-given core.
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