[private] i got addicted to a losing game

[bolder]

Never having teleported before (and certainly not expecting it), it takes a moment for the disoriented pegasus colt to realize where he is. Hyaline doesn't boast a dense canopy of trees as Taiga does but a deep and mysterious lake. His silver gaze rests there while sunlight shimmers in an eerie display of brightness that the adolescent that hadn't been there a few heartbeats before.

There had been the reaching and intertwining branches of the Redwoods above, his mother, his Uncle Yanhua, Amarine, and -

"Mazikeen?" Bolder asks her once the Hyalinean leader shifts back into the shape of a horse. There is an unspoken question in his eyes; what had happened? The other shifter - now a perlino stallion - reaches for Maze in a way that the young Taigan has seen his parents do several times. But neither of his parents are here now and the striped boy shifts his weight at the thought, his golden stripes gleaming beneath the same Beqanna sun as the nearby lake.

Bolder nods carefully at her first question, one that doesn't feel as out of place as he does. "Yea," he starts tentatively because the agreement that he had made with his father was that there would no shifting unless it was under Mazikeen's knowing instruction. At least not until he was older and had a better chance of controlling it. But being born a shifter with a bright curiosity, Bolder couldn't help from trying to lengthen his legs like Uncle Yanhua's or matching the seasonal colors of the young sentry, Targaryen. And the young pegasus decides to show the white mare and the strange stallion (his Uncle, Bolder reminds himself) by taking on a similar shade of Gale's scarring across his entire hide and letting the red of Mazikeen's 'V' marking bleed into his pale crescent moon one.

The yearling is rather proud of his coat creation and glances at the pair, wondering if they might be impressed with it as he is (Bolder has never pulled colors from multiple sources before).

"Da always said we would but then my grandfather left," Bolder explains. "And then he became King of the North."

And then there had been little time for his youngest son in Taiga, his expression says.
And even less for the always promised visit to Hyaline.

@Gale @Mazikeen have a red, blue and gold bolder for the 4th