<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/30/0729ac96ae5c8445f949b33dc7109eea.jpg)</div><strong>Mists of Evensong</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/12HISzViu1b3S9RNTIyN2SSBjxNmSbHFaIj3x0a1kzyU/edit)<br/><br/>Mists of Evensong walked in a sort of trance.  Measuring the wind had revealed to her something she'd thought  impossible—Umari Thousand Hands was not only a solar exalted—like her master—but one so powerful that he must have been around and active for well over a century.<br/><br/>Mists knew something of the Wyld Hunts the Scarlet Empire sent after the Chosen of the Sun.  When she was a child, they'd occasionally made for grand and terrible stories—scores of elemental heroes assembling vast armies to defend Creation from ancient foes reborn.  Since coming to understand the true nature of Ramalan's power, she'd read two formally written histories of the Wyld hunt.<br/><br/>If the Scarlet Empress had not vanished, surely her Master would have been slain long before he could have come into what power he had now, before he could have gained her service, and that of Heart's Ablaze and Kaname.  The three had made a secret agreement among themselves about the one order they would disobey.<br/><br/>None of them would let their master face the Wyld Hunt without them.<br/><br/>Perhaps it wouldn't come to that.  With Xenovia and Cynthia sharing her master's blessing, with Talitha's supernatural martial arts, and the fleet Ramalan was building...<br/><br/>And now, a new friend?  A Solar who had remained free and strong to gain such power?<br/><br/>Except—Mists noted the veiled hostility of the woman flying after them.  Umari had his beloved too, and one of them was not pleased.  Was it with her?<br/><br/>Stepping into a workshop where Ramalan and Xenovia were not only revealing their caste marks—but showing signs of having expended great amounts of power, Mist's eyes widened.  “Talitha?” she whispered, surprised.  When Ramalan had first  taken Talitha aboard—mists believed her nature to be similar to her own, and that her master meant to add Talitha to his harem, grant her the same protection he gave Mists and her sisters.<br/><br/>No, Talitha was a solar as well?<em>Did master know?</em><br/><br/>Mists of Evensong wondered if she should speak up, but instead stepped back from Umari. Finding herself standing next to where Verdant Orchid hovered, she glanced curiously—and a bit nervously—up at her counterpart.<br/>