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"Diplomatic visit," Kylin only. - Kagerus - 02-27-2018 Out with the golden we sew, and the lower past that crawls. Now, to the doorway you run, to the girl that's not lost. It's an impromptu visit that I've planned, without really asking if it's allowed. I figure that in the peace of the land, it won't do any harm for me to better acquaint myself with some of our neighboring lands - I am a diplomat after all, and it would only make sense for me to known a little about our rival kingdoms, though for now the rivalry isn't bloody. I intend to keep it that way of course, I hate war, and furthermore Hyaline's whole thing is about not making war, about sheltering those affected by it. So with any luck, my little visit won't change things as dramatically as that. The tides are low as my journey from the mountains to the sea comes to an end. It's quite a distance, and has taken me all day - the sun setting slowly on the sea bound horizon - but I am content with the exercise. I am at the western border, with my shapely hooves making prints in the moist sand. The weather is slightly nippy, but I am not so finely built that it bothers me. Halting as the small dip of water I had to walk through falls behind me, I raise my head and quietly trumpet a call to any who may hear. It's not really a diplomatic visit in my opinion, but I am from Hyaline, and I do want to see the innards of their kingdom, so... I guess that's what I'll have to call it. Kagerus sweet nothing RE: "Diplomatic visit," Kylin only. - Kylin - 02-28-2018 kylin html code by Toli, design idea based on "Dovev" by Laura There is my mind, there is my heart. RE: "Diplomatic visit," Kylin only. - Kagerus - 03-04-2018 Out with the golden we sew, and the lower past that crawls. Now, to the doorway you run, to the girl that's not lost. I do not have to wait long before a figure appears, wandering as if lost from the Ischian underbrush. Instinctively I take a step forward, nostrils flaring, wondering if the too-skinny girl needs help - but at the last moment I remember that I am representing Hyaline, just by being from there. And so I stand, legs askew in the sand, neck extended as if that would allow me to somehow help the girl. Hello, she says, and yet her pretty eyes, set against the lush lavender of her face, seem to pass completely through me. My skin itches, as if to warn me that I am a ghost - or perhaps that she is. There is something unearthly about this situation, at any rate. About the way the girl's eyes are as gaunt as her ribs. "Hello there," I murmur, not wanting to startle the fragile figure. Two streams of thought battle within me, one wanting to go forward and coddle the child (though she be more mare than filly in stature), the other telling me that such forwardness is completely unwarranted on the part of a diplomat. But I have been a lover and a nurturer for far longer than I have been a diplomat, and so the prior wins out. I close the distance between us and wrap the lavender girl in a tight hug, giving it my all, though I fear that she may be as stiff as a board under such attention. But she needs it. I can see in the way her muscles bunch and her eyes look too much like crying. She needs to be held - even just by a stranger. Though that look in her eyes is no stranger to me. Releasing her from the embrace, I back up softly until our noses are about a half a foot apart. My nutmeg eyes glimmer, genuine concern reflected in their depths. "Are you okay?" I speak gently, reassuringly, as if she can trust me - and she can. "My name is Kagerus, I'd love to hear your name too..." Kagerus sweet nothing RE: "Diplomatic visit," Kylin only. - Kylin - 03-05-2018 kylin html code by Toli, design idea based on "Dovev" by Laura There is my mind, there is my heart. @[Sid] <3 RE: "Diplomatic visit," Kylin only. - Kagerus - 03-06-2018 Out with the golden we sew, and the lower past that crawls. Now, to the doorway you run, to the girl that's not lost. I move too quickly to allow the lavender doe's movement toward me come to fruition: she had been reaching for me, and before I even knew that, I had her wrapped up in my embrace, soothing her tears with steady breathing, holding her thin frame until the sobs subsided. Or at least, I thought that they had subsided - but as I pull away, hoping I have not intruded too terribly, I recognize a look in her eyes that conveys to me how deeply I am wrong in this hope. She needs more, she needs someone, she needs consistency - I am a mere stranger, and yet I can see in the deep pools of her eyes that my physical touch had tethered her to the world for a split second, and that she desperately wants more. The girl tries to speak then, her voice thick with tears just as her cheeks are. My heart breaks athousandfold, that something inside of me begging me to reach out and care for the child, to nurture her and raise her... But that something shall truly be the death of me, though I am not aware of this yet. Nor am I even aware of the life growing in my womb. For now, the only life that matters, is the one before me, stuttering and balking and seeming to need me more than ever. "I'm glad you came to see me, Just Kylin," I murmur into the soft folds of her nose, hoping that my light and soft tones will ease her out of her black cloud. "I'm here for a reason, I think, and I think that reason... Is to tell you that it's going to be okay." I smile, knowing that what I say could be mistaken, that it might offend her to think that I know anything about her at all - but I do know her, when I look in her eyes, I know her. Profoundly. And perhaps, by looking in mine, she will know me too. She asks of my home then, and I drop my gaze for a second before returning it hastily to hers. This was supposed to be a diplomatic visit... But something tells me that what I'm doing here is a different type of political move. But I push those thoughts away. I don't have an agenda, and I never did - what happens from here on out, with this lovely Kylin, is between her and I - not our respective kingdoms. I hope. "I'm from Hyaline, the mountain kingdom..." "We're a sanctuary for the lost and broken." Kagerus sweet nothing RE: "Diplomatic visit," Kylin only. - Kylin - 03-06-2018 kylin html code by Toli, design idea based on "Dovev" by Laura There is my mind, there is my heart. RE: "Diplomatic visit," Kylin only. - Kagerus - 03-08-2018 Out with the golden we sew, and the lower past that crawls. Now, to the doorway you run, to the girl that's not lost. It is not longer before I notice the soft girl's eyes slowly focusing on my corporeal self, as if readjusting to reality for the first time in a long while. I smile, a genuine expression, for I have known that self same feeling: did Insignificance, the woman who came to bear me a brother, not find me in my darkest hour and rescue me from myself? Did she not look me in my eyes, and bring me back to life, as I am now doing to Kylin? Perhaps there is still some light among the darkness of my soul after all. I will? "Yes darling, I promise." Her meek expression - barely a twitch of the lips - is all the proof I need that she believes me and trusts me, that she hasn't taken my words wrong. My own smile is still stubbornly set, not large by any means, but reassuring. At this, the sweet Kylin extends her nose towards mine, and I eagerly close the distance that she leaves, wanting only to encourage this action. Physical touch is healing, and this child needs just that. I nod softly to her quiet question, one that is filled with a meek kind of awe. I mirror that same awe in my own tone, gentle and admiring of the land I come from. "Yes, it's breath taking, though very cold right now as you might expect." I inhale as if to speak again, but then bite my tongue - I am here on a diplomatic mission, I should restrain myself, I should -- "Why don't you come back with me? For old time's sake? You can tell me about how you know Hyaline... Or whatever you want, really." "I'm here for you, Kylin." Well. So much for subtlety. Kagerus sweet nothing @[Kylin] RE: "Diplomatic visit," Kylin only. - Kylin - 03-09-2018 kylin html code by Toli, design idea based on "Dovev" by Laura There is my mind, there is my heart. @[Kagerus] <3 <3 <3 |