[private] Desolation comes upon the sky // Ea

[Scorch]

Truth be told, Scorch didn't know as much about her children's lives as she would like to. Sure, she could tell you their favourite childhood hide outs and their particular fighting styles - children tended to brawl when there were ten of them cooped up in a thicket, or at least that's how it felt as a mother. She could also tell you their saddest moments, and their happiest - but only to an extent. Once her children moved out, they became separate from her. Some more than others it was true; for she hadn't the slightest clue what her eldest daughters got up to these days, whereas she saw Leilan and Vi on the daily.

Death, of course, was the ultimate separation; though in her reunion with the world of the living, she'd accidentally stolen a piece of her grandson's magic, allowing her to maintain some semblance of connection with the place from which he'd rescued her. A fact that she's grateful for most of the time. Sometimes the clamoring of the dead gets a little much for her, a fact which she is wont to admitting when in a foul mood; but the dead always manage to lift her spirits in the end, what with their being her intimately close family.

Mother, comes a very familiar voice. It's me, Ea. Do you want to talk, just the two of us?

She did, of course. But for a moment before replying, the wizened mare considers her daughter, trying to see if she could remember much about Ea. There were the usual childhood traits of course, though fewer than the others since she had left at such a young age for the Dale. Scorch resents the strain it had put on their mother-daughter relationship at the time, but ultimately came to see her decision as acceptable when she saw the family and love it procured for Ea. Despite being raised from childhood to be a Queen, the intelligent mare managed to make more for herself than Scorch could ever have intentionally taught her to. In this way, her daughter was the most successful of her children; but also the most dead, and the most reserved.

"I would like that. I don't have anything to do today, and Blue is away in Ischia." She paused in her speech, barely aware of the ground which passed beneath her as she meandered through the Nerinian landscape. "You know something? I miss you much more than I ought to be allowed to." Her chuckle reverberated in both realms, its tones sad despite meaning to be cheerful. "Your levelheadedness always did me well."