As you finish reading the message within the locket, you and Mitri are stunned as a loud cracking sound erupts from all around you, accompanied by a flash of bright, yellow-green light.
Momentarily unable to regain your vision, you’re startled to feel your body being bounced and bumped around quite aggressively and unexpectedly.
Upon reclaiming your senses, you look down to find that you and Mitri are in a golden carriage drawn by white horses whose skin and hair shine in a most beautifully opalescent way. Colors of the rainbow glint off the silvery lavender snow storm that’s swirling viciously around as they race you through the night.
Enamored by the glowing beauty of the horses, it takes an extra beat for you to realize that they aren’t just galloping you toward an unknown destination, but away from something. A blood curdling sound comes from behind, causing you and Mitri to whip your heads around.
A horrific herd of dark horses are chasing the carriage you’re desperately trying not to get tossed out of into the storm that’s brewing stronger by the second.
“Why are those horses chasing us?” You have to shout in order for your question to be audible.
A worried look upon his face, Mitri answers, “Those aren’t horses. They belong to Ghastputin”
“Who?”
“The evil sorcerer. They’re his helhest. If they’ve risen from the underlands, he can’t be too far behind now.”
Although unfamiliar with that word, the sound of it immediately makes your heart freeze over with fear.
Focusing your gaze more intently, you realize that the creatures following you are only similar to horses, with some strikingly different aspects. The most awful of which being that their blackened bodies appear as if the flesh is dead and falling away, exposing skeletal protrusions, and that their sprint is rather disjointed due to the fact they each have only three legs.
The foggy, snow filled air around the helhest looks gaseous and toxically green, and you don’t doubt for a second that no good will come of them catching up to you. Something in your gut tells you that, whatever they are, one touch of their poisoned looking skin would not just be incredibly unpleasant, but lethal.
Mitri keeps yelling something you can’t quite hear due to how loud everything has gotten, but finally you make out that he’s shouting for you to play the music box.
“Why?!” You holler back, while frantically grasping to comply, ever so grateful that the locket is still clutched firmly between your fingers.
“The sound of music drives the helhest insane.”
Task:
Whether depicting an opalescent horse in all their glinting rainbow tones, or one of the dark helhest, fill in your preferred Coloring Page from the following two options, using a variety of different shades, then share your work below! Images imbedded directly into posts must be kept within 600x600 pixels.
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Alternatively you may share your Opinion in a minimum of 75 words describing one or more of your least favorite holiday songs and what drives you crazy about them.
This task is worth 15 beans/sapphires, with an additional 15 bonus beans/sapphires for completing all Week Two tasks by end of activity. Deadline is 11:59pm (HOL time) on Thursday Decemebr 21st.