[private] as the sun sinks in the sea - aletta

[aletta]

The morning proves to be pleasant enough. The rising heat of summer hasn’t taken a full hold on Beqanna yet and Aletta appreciates the coolness of the mornings. There is something to admire in the stillness of them, of the way that the rest of the world hasn’t fully awakened yet.

Aletta has always appreciated the dawn - the sun rising from the East promised a new day and the few lingering stars above could still whisper of dreams from the night before.

On one such morning, the gray mare is standing beside this River. The stars vanish and take their whispers with them. (Not that she can hear them - it had been Keav who had been the startalker. Aletta merely tried to listen.) Another day begins and the dreams fade with the blue sky that awakens above them. The hue of it becomes more vibrant as the early hours pass and sunlight trickles down through the lush treetops as happily as the River gurgles its laughter.

Except when the silver mare looks downstream, it isn’t the River that is giggling.
It is a girl. A girl and her pale mother.

It isn’t like her to approach others except there is something about the filly that makes her think of wildflowers (and how that makes her ache). It makes her think of lost days and the rivers that still run through her memories. That past - the days of raising children - is long behind her but it still leads her to the mother that stands on the riverbank.

(And she might even find this amusing later - that she finds herself standing beside water and reflecting on the antics of foals again.)

The child continues her carefree splashing while her mother shakes it good-naturedly from her mane and Aletta smiles.

"Let her stay in too long and she might turn into a fish,” the gray mare teases as she approaches.

@[Chasity] sorry this took so long! <3