[private] only a heartbeat in time; Nash, birthing

[Nashua]

stars when you shine, you know how i feel
oh freedom is mine

His green eyes are swept up in the two little - perfect - girls. It is one tsunami wave sweeping Nashua entirely in love and the full force of it tugs on a grin that is already making his jaw ache from all the happiness beaming there. They look like clouds, he thinks of the two fillies. Little pieces of a sky all our making.

Nashua - who has climbed the wide and wild sky as high as his wings will allow - thinks this is possibly the best view of his entire life.

Noel looks tired and when her ears pin into the lovely white of her mane, he watches as she shifts her hindquarters to face him. Nash waits a moment before slowly approaching her (though being mindful of her back legs; his mouth has certainly gotten him in trouble before) and drawing his pale lips to brush against her side, up past her feathers until they finally reach her spine.

"You know I don't mind the view," he murmurs darkly against her pale skin (in a languid voice meant just for her), reminded of their time together after the Alliance.

The young pegasus only parts from her to better see their girls. He watches with quiet awe as their winged daughter stands and teeters toward her mother on long, elegant legs. The mare beside him seems to interpret his thoughts because she names that beautiful creature Elegance. The lopsided smile etching on his blazed face is full of pride - how quick they are to stand! How utterly perfect they are.

Their mother turns to the other girl - the one with his glowing stripes - and he lowers his head, hoping that the newborn might come closer to her father. "Hello Luminesce," he says softly. "Aren't you lovely?" They both were. As their mother was.

A spring breeze blows past the little family and it reminds Nashua of where they stand. Nerine. He is still reaching down for his daughter while the wing simultaneously closest to @[Noel] reaches for her.

He can't help himself: "Why didn't you stay in Taiga?"

NASHUA

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