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    Assailant -- Year 226

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    "But the dream, the echo, slips from him as quickly as he had found it and as consciousness comes to him (a slap and not the gentle waves of oceanic tides), it dissolves entirely. His muscles relax as the cold claims him again, as the numbness sets in, and when his grey eyes open, there’s nothing but the faint after burn of a dream often trod and never remembered." --Brigade, written by Laura


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        Thread: you had your maps drawn
    Post: RE: you had your maps drawn

    It's been some time since she has felt this much at ease with another. Maybe she has spent too much time in her own company but she has a hard time recalling the last time she has conversed with s...
    aletta Forest 10 5,497 10-23-2020, 01:46 PM
        Thread: something wild calls you home
    Post: RE: something wild calls you home

    They are speaking about dragons and the displeasure shows up on her silver face as clear as the sunshine. If there were any doubt what Aletta thinks about those beasts, her ears fleetingly pin back wh...
    aletta Nerine 11 5,022 08-06-2020, 09:10 PM
        Thread: wide awake in a world of lullabies
    Post: RE: wide awake in a world of lullabies

    Aletta has always been proud that she has no gifts to speak of. That she has no traits to show. Her birthright is the silver coat that she wears - something passed from mother to daughter since the re...
    aletta Meadow 17 7,105 08-06-2020, 08:37 PM
        Thread: wide awake in a world of lullabies
    Post: RE: wide awake in a world of lullabies

    She's known the hardness of living. She has felt the bitter blows of it take something from her youth. She has felt the coldness of it as it stripped her of beloved things from her middle years. She f...
    aletta Meadow 17 7,105 07-30-2020, 02:48 PM
        Thread: you had your maps drawn
    Post: RE: you had your maps drawn

    Aletta has never had cards. It's always been her stars; she has used them as a compass for as long as she can remember. Her mother - the descendant of the Dalean king, Coca-Cola - had crafted stories ...
    aletta Forest 10 5,497 07-30-2020, 01:54 PM
        Thread: you had your maps drawn
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    He is a throwback to her youth. Aletta hadn’t been so naive to think that every traveler she would encounter would be friendly but the way he smiles reminds her of the times (and travels) when a stran...
    aletta Forest 10 5,497 07-24-2020, 12:08 PM
        Thread: wide awake in a world of lullabies
    Post: RE: wide awake in a world of lullabies

    ”I know,” Aletta says with the weight of knowing, of living a life that has been full of those lessons. The silver mare tears her upturned face away from the blanket of stars and instead focuses o...
    aletta Meadow 17 7,105 07-17-2020, 07:09 PM
        Thread: i'm afraid i'm not pious - heartfire
    Post: RE: i'm afraid i'm not pious - heartfire

    The filly is studying Heartfire so intensely that it unsettles Aletta. While the gray mare hadn't been permitted to come any closer than within a walking stride, the girl has turned her head around ...
    aletta River 5 3,266 07-11-2020, 08:03 PM
        Thread: the hymn of those who've gone before - yanhua
    Post: RE: the hymn of those who've gone before - yanhua

    The first time, it was the blue of his eyes that caught her off-guard. Now, it seems, that it is her turn. Perhaps he didn't hear her approach over the rushing current of the water, maybe this un...
    aletta Taiga 2 1,400 07-01-2020, 05:25 PM
        Thread: wide awake in a world of lullabies
    Post: RE: wide awake in a world of lullabies

    Her darkness comes like the night above them. It comes in rhythms and waves - reminiscent of tides and seasons and daybreak and night. Constancy and consistencies all found in nature. The darkness c...
    aletta Meadow 17 7,105 07-01-2020, 03:19 PM
        Thread: the hymn of those who've gone before - yanhua
    Post: the hymn of those who've gone before - yanhua

    She hears it. A phantom hum of a River that isn't here. An illusion that murmurs in her silver ears about something gone and that she (stubbornly) refuses to forget. The ancient valley that Aletta o...
    aletta Taiga 2 1,400 06-29-2020, 07:33 PM
        Thread: wide awake in a world of lullabies
    Post: RE: wide awake in a world of lullabies

    If she were a more prideful mare, she might have smiled. Aletta has no qualms about her temperament - not when it had secured the borders of her home, not when it had given her a reputation that mad...
    aletta Meadow 17 7,105 06-29-2020, 06:37 PM
        Thread: i'm afraid i'm not pious - heartfire
    Post: RE: i'm afraid i'm not pious - heartfire

    It’s been a while since she has been alone with a child. Years, in fact. And it had been different then because those children had been hers (and as time passed, her grandchildren). Aletta looks dow...
    aletta River 5 3,266 06-26-2020, 02:40 PM
        Thread: something wild calls you home
    Post: RE: something wild calls you home

    Another scent comes drifting down the Nerinian wind and Aletta turns her head, peering over the rolling moorlands to see where it comes from. An ear flicks towards Scorch while the gray mare is stud...
    aletta Nerine 11 5,022 06-26-2020, 01:14 PM
        Thread: you had your maps drawn
    Post: RE: you had your maps drawn

    If there is one thing she has learned from wandering, it is that paths cross. They come together - much like the crossroad she and Mesec create - and that moment now waits to be woven into the f...
    aletta Forest 10 5,497 06-26-2020, 11:17 AM
        Thread: wide awake in a world of lullabies
    Post: RE: wide awake in a world of lullabies

    She tried changing it once before. Aletta had tried to stop the future from coming. There had been a night, once, where she thought that if she didn’t close her eyes then the dawn wouldn’t come. And...
    aletta Meadow 17 7,105 06-22-2020, 07:21 PM
        Thread: wide awake in a world of lullabies
    Post: RE: wide awake in a world of lullabies

    His eyes are roving the stars like a submersible searches the murky depths of the ocean. Warden is searching through the silence and the stillness for an answer. Looking for answers to questions t...
    aletta Meadow 17 7,105 06-18-2020, 06:48 PM
        Thread: something wild calls you home
    Post: RE: something wild calls you home

    It’s hard to miss Scorch. There is a wide, open blue sky that invites Aletta towards the Nerinian border. It had been hard to find in Taiga, even if there were other … distractions in the Northern for...
    aletta Nerine 11 5,022 06-16-2020, 08:10 PM
        Thread: wide awake in a world of lullabies
    Post: RE: wide awake in a world of lullabies

    Underneath this same sky - from Paraiso’s deep valleys to the imperial heights of Craignair, the flats of Murmuring Rivers and even Beqanna - she has done this. The wanderer of her youth (and in the y...
    aletta Meadow 17 7,105 06-15-2020, 09:08 PM
        Thread: wide awake in a world of lullabies
    Post: wide awake in a world of lullabies

    There aren’t many things to complain about in summer. A lull sweetens the air. It becomes thick with humidity (as a daughter of the mountains she doesn’t particularly care for the heat) and the soft ...
    aletta Meadow 17 7,105 06-13-2020, 07:34 PM