Killala

Killala of the Glow (seen in the Sandman book Endless Nights DC universe) is one of the first of her race able to manipulate a glowing green force called “ The Glow” with the power of her mind.  A Maltusian ancestor of the Guardians of the Universe (founders of the Green lantern Corps).  Experimenting with her new Glow abilities she makes contact with the Dreaming and Dream.  This brings her to the attention of Dream the Eternal ruler of all Dreams.  Brother to Death, Despair, Desire, Delirium, Destruction, and Destiny one of the Eternal seven.  He falls in love with Killala and the two start a whirlwind romance that consumes Dream’s life.  Right up until she meets the sentient embodiment of her peoples’ star, Sto-OA, the actual sun of Oa in humanoid form of her peoples’ world.  This happened during a trip Dream had taken her on.  To a meeting of Universal beings made manifest in humanoid form unknown to Killala of course Dream forgot to tell her this.  It is during this accord of great Universal manifestations that Desire, Dream’s sibling, starts to play and influence Killala who falls in love with Sto-OA.  They are seen by Dream fulfilling this love in an embrace.  Killala comes to learn the truth that the beings that surround her are not mere aliens but the raw living spirits of the Universe.  Terrified of what she learns about Dream she retreats through use of the Glow into the arms of Sto-Oa and together they stay until her own light ends and is then embraced by Sto-OA for eternity.  Desire’s influence over Killala and Sto-Oa that day ended what love and friendship Dream had for his sibling Desire.