The first weeks in the rifts were hell.
Ayla had no concept of time, food, nor shelter, all she knew was only endless darkness and Eclipsed that hunted anything that moved.
So she ran, she hid and she learned how to survive in this forsaken place.
The first time she tried fighting an eclipse was almost a disaster, one that almost caused her to lose her life, but she survived.
She learnt how to deal with them, and by the tenth time, she hunted them, it was almost too easy.
By the hundredth, it was routine.
Her umbra energy grew stronger the longer she stayed.
The shadows, unlike her parents, did not reject her, they accepted and fed her.
They moved when she commanded,they answered when she called and they protected her when she needed it.
She learned to use umbra not because she wanted to, but because she needed it to stay alive.
She slept by burying herself in shadows and only ate by killing the Eclipsed that tried hunting her.
