12-04-2017, 07:58 PM
if there's a light at the end, it's just the sun in your eyes
There's a brief moment between when Amet wakes from his twilight nap and when he finally opens his amber eyes. In that moment, he inhales deeply to appreciate the scents of his lakeside home, he exhales slowly in quiet repose, and he listens to the sounds of their home as if for the very first time. He had loved caring for this land ─ he still loves caring for it, living in it, creating memories in it ─ but his mind has been opened to the sweet life of absolutely no responsibility. He is here always, a stable pillar for Solace as she grows swiftly into her role, but there is something different about this type of relaxation.
When finally he does open his bright amber eyes to gaze upon the orange fire that the setting sun has painted across the lake, Amet leans appreciatively against his wisteria tree and sighs with contentment. His sound is echoed and for a moment the gilded stallion is startled, but then he sees the black sabino mare standing at the shoreline, inspecting her rippling reflection. He remains quiet, watching her with a kind smile upon his lips until finally she raises her eyes from the lake and his connect with hers.
The crimson draws him in and suddenly Amet is being tugged by an invisible thread ─ closer, closer, closer to the mystery woman. For the first time that he can remember, he is pleased for the glisten of his scales and his regal desert frame; there aren't many with desert blood in Beqanna, nor are there many with dragon scales (and even then, it is only he who truly shines like a beacon). For the first time he remembers, he wants to be the assertive one. The flirtatious
one. But even as he approaches her with heat in his eyes and a curve to his muscled neck, Amet cannot quite grasp the confidence to greet the breathtaking mare with anything more than ─
"Hello there. I don't think I've seen you in Hyaline before ─" in fact, he is quite positive that he hasn't, "─ Are you a friend of Solace's?"
Amet
@[Eione]