 Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?
Ash was technically allowed to skip this activity, seeing as she had been stuck in a void for a while. But she wasn't gonna. She had things to prove. She wanted everyone to know that she didn't need special treatment (or she wanted to lie to herself, depending on how you looked at it). Besides, it was just the dark. It wasn't the dark that was bad. It was the things hiding in it.
The point was, Ash was doing this activity regardless of anybody else's better judgement. But, like the novel on haunted houses had said, you couldn't linger at a door if you might have second thoughts. So she stepped in, tuning out the world, closing her eyes. She advanced like a muggle trying to pour water in the dark. She did not lift her feet, she just slid her feet forward slowly to find obstacles. Putting one foot in front of the other. Ash had no fear of the dark. According to her. She felt the universe wanted her to sit out, and she was going to do the exact opposite.
Could she use magic to help? Technically yes. But she didn't need to, so why should she? She didn't need her phone to know what the weather was when she was standing outside. Therefore she did not need magic to walk across a non-dangerous room. Ash did not like to be dependent on people, and she didn't like to be dependent on objects either. They were even less trustworthy than people were. |