She remembers her first steps into Tephra. The wilting grasses beneath her hooves as she was led here by her mother, her brother took to his skies. She hasn't seen them in years. She wonders what's come of them but that's not what saddens her. Her first steps had been tragic. The poison flowed freely from her, killing everything she touched. The grasses. The mighty tree. She had hated herself for not being in control. Now she was. She had learned. Strengthened her mind. Shackled the unruly demons deep inside her. Her inner turmoil painted on her features as her thoughts traveled back in time...
The blue bay stallion shifts uneasily next to her. Tension consumes his body in rigid movements. She is brought back by the movements in time to catch Levi's words. No, he says. Her brow cocks in curious confusion. He speaks of a King and permissions. She's never needed it before. The painted stallion steps forward between her and Warrick. They confuse her - a game - it hadn't been a game to her. If not for her time in the woods she wouldn't have learned control. Hyaline was his plot, not hers. She followed his lead and nothing more...
Her bright brown eyes were brought to Warrick as he spoke now. The concern in his tone was matched by the understanding in her expression. She smiles as kindly as anyone could before speaking, "I don't wish to harm Tephra." She almost giggles for him thinking she would want to. Her thoughts turn to when she had - on accident - harmed the lands. Her gaze fell for a moment before being brought to the landscape. Her deadened trail had long regenerated with the coming of new spring grasses but what about the tree...
Sifting through her minds memories she tried to revision the location. Almost frantically her eyes darted about. She wasn't far from where she saw the Raven perched in it's branches. She broke forward through the gathering. Collecting into a paced walk before breaking into a two beat trot. Her crown high, ears thrusted forwards. Approaching another treeline quickly just across the clearing where Warrick had found her. Coming to a sudden halt as she saw it. It's blackened carcass still upright. A thinned skeleton of what had been a flourishing, living thing. Ebony lips formed a thin pressed line. She took one more step forward, head tilted to view it better. Eyes falling in sadness and remembrance. She wished she could fix it... But she can't...
The blue bay stallion shifts uneasily next to her. Tension consumes his body in rigid movements. She is brought back by the movements in time to catch Levi's words. No, he says. Her brow cocks in curious confusion. He speaks of a King and permissions. She's never needed it before. The painted stallion steps forward between her and Warrick. They confuse her - a game - it hadn't been a game to her. If not for her time in the woods she wouldn't have learned control. Hyaline was his plot, not hers. She followed his lead and nothing more...
Her bright brown eyes were brought to Warrick as he spoke now. The concern in his tone was matched by the understanding in her expression. She smiles as kindly as anyone could before speaking, "I don't wish to harm Tephra." She almost giggles for him thinking she would want to. Her thoughts turn to when she had - on accident - harmed the lands. Her gaze fell for a moment before being brought to the landscape. Her deadened trail had long regenerated with the coming of new spring grasses but what about the tree...
Sifting through her minds memories she tried to revision the location. Almost frantically her eyes darted about. She wasn't far from where she saw the Raven perched in it's branches. She broke forward through the gathering. Collecting into a paced walk before breaking into a two beat trot. Her crown high, ears thrusted forwards. Approaching another treeline quickly just across the clearing where Warrick had found her. Coming to a sudden halt as she saw it. It's blackened carcass still upright. A thinned skeleton of what had been a flourishing, living thing. Ebony lips formed a thin pressed line. She took one more step forward, head tilted to view it better. Eyes falling in sadness and remembrance. She wished she could fix it... But she can't...
Kolera
Earth to Earth, Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust.
@ [Offspring] @ [Levi] @ [Warrick]