Names: Ilium and Aodhan. Gender: Both male. Age: Unknown for both Relationship: Mates of the heart and soul
The world dissolved in a flash of pure, searing white. One moment, Ilium and Aodhan were standing on the familiar grounds of the Refuge, the next they were pulled, their bodies stretched and distorted by a force that was not of this world. They landed in a strange, silent place, a forest of pines and the scent of damp earth filling the air. It was not the scent of their home. Before they could even assess their surroundings, a call echoed through the very essence of their being—a pull of power so immense, so chaotic, it felt like the birth of a star. They looked up, their eyes following the impossible light that shone through the canopy of trees, and their hearts seized with a mix of terror and protectiveness. High above them, a small figure was a nucleus of brilliant, pulsating light. It was Astrum, daughter of their Archangel, Elena and Raphael, and she was not just in the sky; she was becoming the sky. At just ninety-seven years old, a mere child in angelic terms, she was Ascending. The sight was both terrifying and breathtaking. She was trying to touch the clouds, her small hands reaching out as if to embrace the very heavens. The air around her hummed with a raw, untamed power, and with every beat of her heart, the light intensified. Suddenly, a crack of thunder tore through the silence, and a bolt of lightning, the exact shade of her luminous silver eyes, shot from the heavens and into the pulsing light around her. It was a baptism by fire, a wild, elemental force greeting its new master. Astrum’s figure was consumed by the flash, and for a heart-stopping moment, they feared she was gone. But when their vision cleared, the light was even brighter, and Astrum was still there, no longer just a girl reaching for the clouds, but a storm herself, a being forged in the crucible of a divine and destructive fire. The two angels watched, knowing that the child they had loved was gone, and in her place was something new and infinitely more powerful.
