[private] love from the west; wolfbane

[Wolfbane]

My dreams have all come true

Of course she would think to come here, since it was the last place they’d seen one another. It was where Wishbone left Wolfbane to become a memory, and just like everything Bone had left behind she must’ve thought that Bane would still be here, or still be the memory she probably recalled. In his mind she was the same - unchanged, untamed, something neither dead nor alive. But without him knowing or expecting (the way his Wishbone liked things) her wayward journey had brought her full circle. She’d come back to Loess to break the spell, to shatter that infallible memory which hadn’t changed over the years.

It was better that she decided to simply show up. Her skill at taking him by surprise was … well timed. Her old friend, the blue-and-gold barred pegasus, had left his brief encounter with Ilma and Litotes to head along the dark line of tree cover at the border. By chance he’d decided to walk instead of fly, and because of this the two horses happen upon one another in a way that instantly reminds Wolfbane of his first visit to Nerine.

He stops, but not in shock. The flashing motion of his legs grows still, ceasing to wink as his long, brusque stride turns stiff. All of a sudden Bane looks alert, perked. Late autumn insects hum in the air, and through the dark forest on his right he can hear a lonely wind rustling over the branches. He stands there, staring at the mare curled behind a stout cactus, thinking for a second Her ghost has come to find me.

For a second, it seemed more reasonable that she would never have come back at all. Only her spirit, and only to give him peace.

But another second passes and still another. She hasn’t disappeared or vanished; he blinks and then inhales, knowing her to be real just from smell alone. He would know that scent anywhere as his Wishbone, finally come home. “What a sight for sore eyes... “ Wolfbane murmurs aloud, heavily sedated by the feel of déjà vu, “What made you come back?” He wants to know.

Like all good nightmares do

@[Wishbone] ~ghosty bone~