Northen Stars

"So how are we going to open this up now? Or is there another way we can get in?"

Twilight had asked when she saw the large structure resembling a forgotten temple in front of her. The way it was built was nothing like anything she'd ever seen before. Although she did have to be honest, the truth is that it did not have a way that she could define as 'correct'.

It was simply nestled in the lower part of the precipice that fell on it, forming part of the natural slope but with several strange contours that protruded as if it were a kind of straight columns that mixed with the rock and camouflaged it. It hid it quite well, and the magic it could feel around it increased its defense even more. But it was because of this that Twilight could not identify any apparent entrances to the naked eye.

Sombra glanced at her sideways again after she asked her question. He hadn't been surprised by it, but now he had to tell her, or rather show her, what they should finally do.

"Obviously, although there is actually more than one," he replied as he got a little closer, until he was under the shadow of the precipice. "So I think you know what I have to use to show it to you."

Twilight looked at him as she gave him a clear nod, then looked straight ahead. Towards the immense formation that rose in front of them as a challenge they had to face. She had a feeling that it was.

"I know you're the only pony who can do this, but," she said and quickly turned to him with an excited smile. "I'd really like to see how you're going to use your magic to do it."

Sombra cracked a half-smile when he noticed her enthusiasm. He had already realized that this was hers, at least when it came to something related to magic.

"Then take a good look at it, maybe you won't have another chance."

That said, he ended up taking a few steps back as he activated it, in anticipation of an expectant Twilight. His horn lit up, but not with the usual reddish glow as always, but with the dark glow of his dark spell, spreading throughout it while the after-effects were visible in his eyes. And in his mind.

All the hatred and resentment he should have felt inside. Strangely all that seemed to have diminished, replaced by something else. A much stronger emotion that gave life to his magic. Even to the dark.

Without taking too much importance, he approached and began to perform the scan, looking for the key piece through which the entrance would end up opening. Sombra smiled to himself when he found it.

"Back off."

Twilight did so as he approached and let go of his magic. Searching for a particular spot, he used his magic to push aside a few vines that covered it, and soon left it in plain sight. The alicorn did not hide her amazement when she saw the strange pentagram imprinted on the rock that emitted a slight bluish glow.

"I guess that's the key," she said as she moved closer to his side. He just nodded.

"This place may have been abandoned long ago, but it still retains some of its magic. It was only necessary for it to react to a particular magic signature," he explained, to Twilight's amazement. "In this case mine."

"What would happen if I did?" She asked as she looked at the star inside the circle drawn on the rock, surrounded by strange symbols that she could not comprehend. She was excited about it.

"You couldn't activate it," he replied simply and moved completely closer to his target. "For this."

Sombra lifted one of his front hooves and pressed it into the circle. That reacted to his touch and caused several tendrils of shadows to sprout from the pentagram and envelop a portion of his limb, much to the amazement of the alicorn who was looking at everything and realized that he didn't seem to be affected by this. But when he turned to her and smiled, Twilight couldn't help but take a step back.

"Don't be frightened now, princess. This will be quick."

"What?"

Her question was answered faster than she thought, but not in the way she imagined. Twilight watched with anticipation and amazement as the same tendrils that had wrapped around Sombra's limb were now heading for her. Quick and swift wrapped hers too.

She let out a scream at the sudden intrusion, which was quickly silenced by the unfolding of the space around her. A couple of seconds later a feeling of slight euphoria ran through her as her head seemed to spin. Then she leaned against the weight of Sombra beside her to steady herself.

"You would have told me the way we were going to teleport and that's how I would prepared beforehoof," she said with the same slowness with which she opened her eyes again. "Although I have to admit that it left me with an exciting feeling."

Sombra cocked his head a bit at the last thing she had said.

"I'm sorry about that part, I didn't know that it would, but I couldn't ruin this either."

The first thing Twilight noticed was the smell. Her nose wrinkled when she began to realize that although that place had been stored for quite some time, it also had a strange freshness that ended up shaking her coat a bit.

Then she finally lowered the hoof she had been rubbing on her head and opened her eyes. Somewhat slowly at first, she made her eyesight accustomed to her surroundings as bright flashes formed along her vision field. Then she saw it.

"What is all this?" It was a rhetorical question, but Twilight still asked it as she lifted her head and slowly looked at every space around her.

The long corridor that had once been plunged into darkness was now illuminated by the glow of dozens of torches placed on the walls, strategically placed at a distance to fulfill its function. It lit up the solid rock walls at the base of the mountain with its fire. But the most curious thing of all was the structure that served as a base of support.

Twilight approached one to admire her in more detail and in all this she realized that she had the strange shape of a horse that reminded her of the wendigos. However, this one had a creepier element to it, as if it were a corpse shrouded in an aura of grim uneasiness. She stepped back feeling a bit of that.

"As I told you, this was the sacred place of the umbrums before they all disappeared," Sombra replied after starting to walk, turning only for a moment to make sure she followed him. "Well, almost all of them."

Twilight followed him without wasting time and without taking her eyes off him, but all that greeted them for a while were the long hallway and the torches spaced every few feet, fueled by the force of some magic she didn't quite know. She would undoubtedly ask Sombra later about it.

"How far does this go?"

"I seem to remember that now we will arrive at a much larger room."

After that, Twilight noticed a glow opening up at the end of the hallway, glowing in a slight purple light that somehow became familiar to her. It was then that she suddenly remembered that strange lily that she had been lucky enough to find and a thought, or rather a suspicion, began to grow inside her.

"Sombra."

He turned to look at her with a slight frown on her face, as if she had suddenly come to some kind of conclusion.

"What's going on?" He asked his question just as they were entering the huge room.

Twilight took a few more seconds to answer as she admired this new place, which, in a way, made it seem that the lighting was born from the walls itselves.

"The glow," she said simply as she walked calmly. "It had reminded me of that flower..."

In a way that made Sombra's previous suspicions increase, after all it could mean several things that those creatures had not attacked her on that occasion. Then he began to look at her in more detail, as if she had the answer to a question he hadn't asked yet.

On the other hoof, Twilight watched, oblivious to his gaze. At first glance it seemed to be like any other room built with ponies's hooves or magic, but it quickly stood out to the eye that it was not only made from inside the mountain but also that its structure had been molded on more than one occasion.

They were in a wide open and high space that seemed to be a kind of square or place of congregation, from which three more entrances were divided pointing in cardinal directions. Its center was occupied by a large statue that had the same shape as the cadaverous horse she had seen in the torches, built of a material that ended up leaving her slightly astonished.

The same dark crystals that she had seen in that cave where she found the flower were also what formed the structure.

Twilight watched it for a few more seconds before backing away toward him. Meanwhile, Sombra had noticed the fascination that seemed to be born from inside her eyes and the innate curiosity that he had already noticed in her before. Her enthusiasm was contagious, but there was something else about her that made him not want to stop looking at her.

"Let's see, where do we have to go now?" Twilight asked, unaware that a few seconds ago he hadn't been looking in the same direction as her. "I haven't forgotten what you told me yet, that there's a place where I can find the answer I'm looking for."

It took Sombra only an instant to get out of the state he had suddenly found himself in, as he slowly denied her words.

"No, I haven't forgotten either," he began to walk slowly as she followed him, towards the large open space opposite to the one they had reached. Then he glanced at it again briefly. "And from what I've been able to see from you so far, I can assume and be one hundred percent sure that you're going to like it."

Twilight stood by his side with increasing anticipation because of his words, though she already had a pretty good idea of where they were going. To her excitement, it could only be something like that.

But in the meantime, she stared at the wide, new corridor through which they had entered. She realized that this time it was not illuminated by torches on the walls, but that it was the rock itself that seemed to emanate the glow of light that she had noticed before. However, she did not see any kind of decoration or ornament on the walls, as if that place had been vacated long before it was forgotten.

But it was still a place that gave her several chills that she couldn't help. Twilight didn't know if it was just her.

"It's been so long abandoned that it doesn't look like there was somepony here at any time," she said quietly, still watching everything.

"You're right about that, but the legacy they left still remains. Hidden deep in it all," Sombra replied, still looking at her. "That's where we're going."

Twilight nodded at his words, but still couldn't help asking:

"But why had I never heard or read about them?"

Sombra took a few seconds to give her his answer.

"Because all knowledge about it was ripped from the ponies' memories and simply left in the void of oblivion, rotting in a wait of more than a thousand years." His voice took on a deeper note as the red of his eyes darkened. "A well-deserved end for everything they ended up causing."

Twilight frowned, not for him but for the grief she thought she saw inside his eyes as his voice faded. Then she looked down, even though she still had several issues on her mind that she didn't quite dare to let out.

However, Sombra noticed this as he looked at her elusive expression, the dubious way she bit her lower lip and how she left her ears down in the desire to ask something else she wasn't sure about. Then he let out a sigh. He wanted to continue looking at her, but not in that way.

"Ask the question, I know you have another in mind."

Twilight looked up and blinked rapidly in his direction, only a bit surprised that her face had been expressive enough for him to notice her curiosity. In the end she couldn't help it.

"It's not that relevant, it's just that I'd like to know if they were like you too," she ended up saying although she quickly corrected herself. "I mean, I'm talking about the physical, I'm not talking about the other thing related to personality... Although you have already shown me that you did not end up being as I first thought you would be."

Her voice came out in a whisper lower and lower as she returned her gaze straight ahead, unable to prevent a small blush from appearing on her face for what she had meant by that. Sombra noticed, but still ended up smiling slightly as he answered.

"Not all of them were like me, obviously, but they were similar," he pointed to his forehead with a hoof. "I can even tell you that I was one of the few who possessed the horn in this form."

"Really?" Twilight asked with surprise and genuine curiosity, looking at him once more. "I always assumed that it had manifested itself to you this way due to the influence of dark magic and how I can deduce that they also used it."

Sombra nodded with a slow shake of his head.

"They had the knowledge, but not all of them had the faculty to exercise it properly." He realized that she was beginning to grasp his idea. "Think of it this way: How many unicorns in your land do you know that can't do anything more than a simple levitation spell? Even if they strive to learn more about all things magic?"

Twilight cocked her head a bit and thought about it, realizing that he was right in a way.

"The truth is that most of them only know and can perform a few spells, almost always related to their special talents," she conceded a point and ended by pointing. "But obviously there are exceptions."

"Exactly, it's because it's simply not linked to what they do best, unlike your special talent, for example". He replied in agreement and continued, following that idea. "So even though the umbrums had a natural affinity for dark magic, it was only a few who mastered that knowledge to its highest level. But I've told you before that everything has a cost, and the price to pay for that power is no exception."

He ended his explanation with a short snort as Twilight lowered her gaze, beginning to understand that idea better.

"I see..." she whispered to herself, though quickly raising her head when she realized otherwise. "By the way, how do you know that my special talent is related to magic?"

This time it was Sombra who ended up looking at her in disbelief.

"Did you really think I didn't know who you were before you were trapped here?" He asked rhetorically while smiling from the side. "It seems like you're more important than you think, Princess Twilight."

She opened her eyes even more by his words. She didn't really quite know what to say to that, so she just decided to look at one of her hooves.

"Well, it's been so long since that moment, and I was so different back then..." she said as she glanced at him out of the corner of her eye. "If you know what I mean, of course."

"I know," he nodded, "but after my defeat I remained surviving as an agonizing form of dark magic inside my horn, a miserable existence indeed. Although I could still feel the magical energy around me, that's how I realized everything that happened afterwards."

Twilight once again delved into her thoughts after that. In a sort of inevitable way, she thought about a part of what the stallion had had to go through while he was in this shape, slowly dying waiting for time to do its job.

"I understand," she whispered. "Or at least it was, until I found you."

Twilight bit her lip after that. An inevitable feeling of empathy and compassion began to grow within her as she glanced at him out of the corner of her eye, not noticing anything in his expression that might indicate how affected he had been by it. She admitted it, she couldn't help but feel bad for him even in spite of everything he had done.

On the other hoof, Sombra was not entirely convinced of her attitude. He didn't understand why she looked so down if it wasn't her problem or her burden anyway.

But when he looked at her... he felt something shrink inside his chest. The truth is that he still did not fully understand those new sensations that the princess provoked in him. He still didn't know if he liked them or not, because inevitably it pushed him to do something so he wouldn't see her like that.

"Don't worry, I think we should put those things aside for now," he let out a short sigh when he saw Twilight's confused and inquisitive expression. "We're getting there."

Sombra didn't say anything else, and Twilight didn't ask her either. She just waited for several minutes in which their walks lasted until they finally stopped in front of the entrance of another corridor that opened to their left; several more were in the other directions.

He went into the one they were seeing first, and she soon followed. Eventually they came to a large circular section surrounded by several doors that separated different rooms from each other. Twilight was really surprised at how big that place seemed to be, more so when she realized how huge the doors she was seeing were at that instant.

But when Sombra approached to open a specific one, Twilight definitely couldn't contain her excitement as her eyes met what lay beyond. A soft glow began to show inside them.

"Oh, for all the ponies..."

In front of Twilight was a large, huge room with several open floors, separated from each other by stairs that grew from the rock walls itselves. There was no decoration in this one either, but what really made it special were the hundreds and probably thousands of scrolls grouped and arranged on shelves, made in the same way as the stairs and everything else in that place.

Twilight found herself thinking about the implications of the recent find as she slowly shifted her gaze around the room that was beginning to light up thanks to the walls of the place. She knew that before her eyes was the knowledge of an entire lost race that had left almost everything in absolute darkness. A knowledge that had been forgotten for more than a thousand years.

She went even deeper, while Sombra simply stood behind her.

"This is... this really is..." Twilight turned to him as she composed her expression of amazement, blinking rapidly and beginning to speak in the same way. "I mean, it's pretty impressive and all that, all these scroll-filled scrolls with knowledge bequeathed from over a thousand years ago that I've never seen before. I can't wait to start looking for it!"

Sombra had no idea why he wasn't surprised that he had been able to keep up with her words. All he did was get a bit closer while slightly raising both eyebrows in an expression of slight disbelief.

"Aren't you supposed to rest first?" He asked when he arrived in front of her.

Twilight looked at him again, this time with a slightly confused expression that later turned into one of doubt when she looked away and began rubbing her front hooves.

"Eh... I don't really want to waste too much time, you know," she murmured, showing a look of pleading. "Could you please?"

Sombra looked at her and could only let out a slight sigh of resignation when he realized that he could not refuse it. He thought then that if it was going to be like this, he would try to take advantage of it to find the confirmation he needed.

"Okay, but first I need you to come with me." The serious expression he maintained at the time he said that caused a trace of concern to creep into Twilight. "I want to show you something."

She wondered what the reason for this was as she swallowed slowly.

"What?"

He didn't know why a quick hint of insecurity crept inside him as he began to walk in a certain specific direction, with her following him by his side. Anyway, it was too fleeting to really worry about it.

"I've had some suspicions for some time about that moment when your friend was taken," he said at last, while he could clearly see how she opened her eyes wider in an expression between surprise and interest. "And only you can confirm them, Twilight."

At his words, she couldn't help but lower her ears a bit in uncertainty while frowning slightly. She felt nervous about whatever he was going to tell her about it.

"I don't think I need to ask what those suspicions are," she replied as she watched out of the corner of her eye as he led them to one of the (apparently) bare walls of the room. "I'm a little worried that you say it that way, because I feel like it's more important than I imagine."

"It is," Sombra confirmed, letting out a brief exhale as he lit his horn in the aura of his normal magic; eventually he continued to speak at the same time as he performed the spell. "I don't know if this sounds strange to you, but you may have noticed that this time they couldn't attack you properly, they just took him away and stayed a distance far enough away from you."

Twilight knew immediately what he meant, and she soon answered him as a frown began to appear on her face from the memory of that moment.

"I did realize and I had no idea why, anyway I don't know much about the nature of those creatures to begin to get a more concrete idea of what it could have really been."

He nodded as he continued to execute his spell.

"It's okay, even I haven't been able to know them completely, but there's one thing I'm sure of." His expression remained neutral as he looked straight into her eyes, finally saying the reason why they were also there. "They didn't attack you because something repelled them."

Silence ensued after that as Sombra continued the spell and Twilight analyzed those words. A second later her attention was diverted to the sudden rumble that the wall caused as the glowing marks of magic spread across the wall in front of them.

"I hope this works," he muttered quietly as he extinguished his horn and watched next to the alicorn as a kind of hidden passageway began to open.

They both entered this one when it finally did, and followed in a straight line a wide path carved through the rock of the mountain. Twilight quickly noticed how it began to glow with that soft purple glow she had seen before, but this time it was not coming from the rock itself but from a point of light that opened far beyond.

"Oh, for all the ponies..."

Twilight's amazement was great when a cavern filled with crystals, the same crystals she had had the opportunity to see so many moons ago, opened before them. The place was not too large, but from the ceiling, to the walls and the floor, dozens of crystalline formations sprouted in its most varied forms, all shining in a faint light that had been hidden for centuries from the curious eyes of the outside world.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Sombra interjected as he positioned himself beside her, admiring the wonder in the mare's eyes. Twilight looked away at him and nodded immediately with a smile.

"It really is," she whispered.

However, while she marveled at all that, something else was happening very close. He was the first to notice, but it didn't take long for Twilight to feel it. She turned her head in that direction, only to be surprised when a strange violet glow began to glow from the side of her bag.

"What is it...?"

The confusion on Twilight's face was evident as she opened it with her magic. It was Sombra's response that finally opened a little light on the whole mystery.

"I think it's about time it was shown."

His horn lit up in the classic reddish aura of his magic, to extract the object that caused that subtle glow that shone brighter and brighter. That glow came to its peak when he took it out and showed it to Twilight, who could only look at it with a lot of surprise expressed on her face.

"Oh, by Celestia," she whispered as she watched the slight movement of the petals of the purple flower contained inside the sphere. "How is it possible that I didn't realize that was there?"

That flower. The purple crystal lily she had found in that cave, just that was what she now had between her hooves. Sombra noticed her puzzled expression, so it didn't take long for him to respond to her.

"I think it hid its essence so you wouldn't or it had just become too exhausted for you to feel it," he said slowly as he detailed every little gesture of her gaze. "And despite everything, it could count on enough magic to repel them."

Twilight turned to him immediately.

"Repel them?" Her eyes widened much wider as she remembered that moment, before she resumed the seriousness of her countenance. "Oh I get it, so this is what prevented it."

Twilight looked back at the flower in her hooves as Sombra continued what she had said.

"Just as you hear it," then his mind stood out something else. "Although I can still remember that you used it the first time we met in that cave, however I think it was unconsciously, right?"

Twilight nodded as she remembered that, of the light that had shone in the midst of the chaos.

"Yes, but then I had almost forgotten about it, or not given it the importance it deserved," she whispered in a reproachful tone to herself. "But what I can't forget was what I felt that time with my magic."

"No wonder you felt it," he explained when he realized it. "That's also why I know you can deduce that this is a pretty rare flower, even among those of its kind. and yes, it's true that white lilies have a bit of magic inside them that gives them that appearance," he said and pointed to the object in her hooves. "But this type is an entirely different one, because in addition to possessing it, it can also direct that of another being."

After he was done with his explanation, Twilight lowered her gaze and began to delve once more into her thoughts.

A flower that she had found alone and away from the vast field, surrounded by crystal walls that little by little had made its appearance dim, or perhaps it had been the previous presence of the unicorn in that place that had done it. And after she took her away, everything else had happened.

"I see, what you said makes perfect sense and even more so when it was because of that that I was able to activate the portal," she whispered quickly as she saw the pieces of the puzzle that began to fit together. "But... at the same time it's not quite like that, is it?"

Sombra saw how she looked at him with an expression of doubt and slight uncertainty because of all the meaning that it conveyed.

"Perhaps, it can't always do it, since there is a specific type of crystals that blocks its magic," he replied while looking away from any specific point. "I think you can imagine what it is."

Twilight nodded, but she couldn't help it anyway and let out a sigh.

"I think I know all that this means."

A few seconds of silence prevailed between them, while Twilight immersed herself in her thoughts and Sombra did the same. They respected that silence until he spoke again.

"Those creatures..." Twilight raised her head to him again to pay attention. "You may not know it, but in your hooves you have the answer to face them and rescue your friend."

The mare's gaze lit up the instant he finished saying that. She quickly looked at the small dome with the flower contained inside as a smile of renewed cheer spread across her face.

"Exactly! A source of light magic powerful enough to fend off their darkness, without our own magic being so compromised."

Sombra was about to be infected by the alicorn's enthusiasm, however, it was necessary for him to explain his point of view to her.

"Actually, that does not reject it as such."

"What do you mean?" she asked.

Twilight calmed her moment of joy a bit after hearing him say that. He soon replied to her, adopting a more serious tone in correspondence with the subject he wished to talk about.

"That just like day and night, dark magic and white magic are two sides of the same coin, simply a supernatural power that only a few have been fortunate enough to master correctly," he said. She knew what he meant this time, so she paid attention to him again. "So when there is a correlation between the two, it is evident that it is also counteracted and, consequently, one can end up dominating over the other."

Still, Twilight couldn't help frowning thoughtfully.

"But how is that possible?" She gestured with one of her hooves as she explained her point. "I have to assume that both can destroy each other, but it is also clear that light magic has a greater advantage in making darkness disappear."

Sombra listened to her and despite everything he began to internalize her words, looking away slightly in the process.

"Yes, most of the time it really is," he agreed with her, although at the same time he replied. "But remember that we are all a combination of the same force embodied within us. Black and white do not have a constant place when there is also a wide scale of grays that can predominate in the same way."

His words made sense to everyone who heard them, because despite all the world in which they lived it was not always happiness and harmony; because of the very creatures that habited it. Twilight was aware of this.

"You're right about that, but it's also true that we can lean one way or the other, or even be in the middle," she stared back at him as a fleeting gleam flashed in her eyes. "Learning from both."

Twilight's smile, though small, was bright in her eyes and showed what she really meant by it. Something that Sombra understood perfectly.

"Exactly, I don't think I need to give you many examples because you can understand it yourself on your own," he let out a slight sigh before continuing. "In the end, what I mean by all that is that this little flower". He pulled the dome with his magic up to his hooves, "can channel and increase the magic needed to counteract either force, so if you feed it with positive enough emotions..."

Twilight continued for him.

"My magic can get stronger."

He nodded, even though they both already knew. He just wanted to prove his point.

"It is true that dark magic by law is usually associated with negative emotions. all the hatred, fear or anger inside you can serve as good fuel," he said in the voice of somepony who had already gone through that experience, but at the same time also denoted an implicit warning inside. "But remember, both are part of the same force that responds to our most intense emotions. It doesn't matter if it's resentment or affection, any emotion strong enough can be ideal to ignite that spark.

Sombra watched as she lowered her head after that, no doubt immersed in the various thoughts that were most likely inside her. He continued in the meantime.

"And as for this little object, it's obvious that the more white magic it has inside, the brighter and more full of life it becomes." The flower contained in the dome flashed softly, as if proving his point. "So if the opposite happens..."

"It ends up being duller and withered," Twilight finished for him in a whisper.

Sombra's gaze drifted for a few moments from the pensive mare beside him to an unimportant point far beyond. However, the fleeting gleam in his eyes continued to think of her.

"Yes, after all, darkness comes at a price, too," he spoke slowly, as if muttering to somepony other than her. "One that takes you down an eternal path of thorns."

Twilight didn't miss the obvious relationship that had to do with him, and she couldn't stop something inside her from shrinking because of it. In the end, it was that something that prompted her to prove him wrong.

"I don't think it necessarily has to be eternal," she began softly, wishing he would realize what she was looking for. "Remember, too, that even the smallest light can glow in the dark. And it's really special when you can count on somepony to guide you there."

Twilight wished her words had gotten to him, she really did. And apparently, it had when Sombra spoke once more.

"Fine, if you say it I guess it'll be true," he smiled calmly, freed for now from that worry; though Twilight couldn't help but give a quick blink at this.

"Do you really think so?"

Sombra immediately turned to her, seeing the semi-curious expression that adorned her face. He detailed it carefully as he looked away from the long eyelashes that made up it, the soft mane that fell over her side, her partially parted lips and those bright purple eyes that he sometimes couldn't help but admire and showed an inner strength that he had rarely seen in any other pony. But he knew she wasn't just any pony.

He would have ended up looking away a lot more, but that was all he needed to confirm the obvious that was in front of his eyes.

"Of course," he replied, and a shrewd smile raised the corners of his mouth; instead, his tone became even lower and deeper. "Why wouldn't I, princess?"

This time Twilight also had no idea why her face began to feel hot when she heard him speak that way, and in that voice. She could only swallow hard and crack a nervous smile as she tried to turn away and look away in another direction.

"O-okay, it's clear to me," she stammered and looked at the exit. "What if we better leave? It's a good idea, don't you think?" she said, but then corrected herself. "Or well, at least for me it is."

Twilight didn't give him time to respond after that, and just went the same way they had come, quickly ahead of him. At this, Sombra could only smile and shake his head slightly, following the elusive mare that had lately occupied a good part of his thoughts.