Illustration

Spark took Vahaadi gently by the wrist as she leapt in the air. Grudgingly he unfurled his Carpet, the tapestry snapping to life as he sat expectantly in its center. Letting go of his arm, Spark gestured for him to follow then shot upwards, through the clouds. She speed further and further from the ground, the horizons bending and vanishing around her. Concentrating with all her might she held her breath and plunged through the atmosphere, breaking into the utter stillness and silence of space. Though normally this sort of feat would be impossible, even for her, Vahaadi’s mood had required a change of surroundings. (read: Spark asked and Evie said ‘yes, you can go into space just this once.’)

Delighted at the complete lack of gravity, Spark felt even lighter than usual. She oriented herself as best she could, looked over her should to make sure Vahaadi was still following her, then sped towards her goal: the brilliantly glowing full moon. As soon as she was close enough to have landed on it if she had wished, she turned to Vahaadi. Edging close enough to be shoulder to shoulder she directed his attention towards the planet from which they had just come. “That.” She said with satisfaction. “The Earth. Look how small is seems from here! And so white too. It’s a little blueish green, but mostly it just looks like a ball of clouds, like a marble floating in the universe.” Spark paused, glancing at Vahaadi and trying to read him. He didn’t meet her gaze. In fact, he hardly seemed to be listening. But he wasn’t scowling or rolling his eyes, so she continued. “But YOU know and I know that there’s so much more to Earth than just a bunch of clouds. Once you get closer, you can see all the things that live on the Earth, what’s been built, what’s been destroyed, what each person is doing right now! Some things will be terrible. But some things will be grand. You can’t say that everything on Earth is right or wrong, because there’s too much going on and it’s too complex. Vahaadi, you’re like the Earth. You can let people get to know you better, exposing your faults but also your strengths, or you can distance yourself, and just seem like a marble.”

She placed a hand lovingly on his shoulder and smiled. “I know you don’t want me to know the real you, because you think its too bad, too terrible. But that isn’t ALL you are. I know there are good things about you! I just wish you could also see them.”

((This was inspired from listening to “Demons” by Imagine Dragons after CallyAnn and I both agreed it’s a very fitting song for Vahaadi. She was so right when she said it’s the feelings expressed in that song that Spark wants to respond to with the song “Brave.”

Spark’s anti-gravity hair is fun to draw, but frames her face weirdly. Her head looks too big for her body with all that wild hair XD))