Help me out before I drown
Save me now before I give up
There is a mental note to remind Cheri later to work on schooling her facial expressions better. The best diplomats were not just extremely observant but didn’t give away too much, something that he too still worked on but at least benefitted from having one less eye to expose his true thoughts. There is blatant confusion on her face but the young mare is at least quick enough to flick her gaze away and seems to settle herself with a small shrug as if she doesn’t care. The one-eyed stallion gets the sense that maybe she does care and he can’t help but notice how those green eyes move so quickly from Obscene to Oceane. Too quickly. He makes a note to either ask her or Oceane about this later, curious to why she is so adamant in avoiding the dark Prince. As Aela mentioned that the Prince in question has her and speaks of recruits, he nods slightly and looks at her with a pleasant expression. “Which category do you fall under? The beautiful or powerful one?” He responds smoothly, having a feeling he already knows the answer to that question. Most of them had secrets beneath the surface. Ledger had the bear, Cheri had her healing amongst other things, Oceane with her new power to grant the most powerful of wishes. What secret does Aela carry, he wonders.
Cheri finally chuckles and mentions something about his ambition before slipping away from them at a distance, leaving him standing with the golden mare. Another thing, he mentally thinks, to remind her to work on later. The green and onyx mare doesn’t wander too far, still in hearing distance and he settles himself beside Aela as they both look back to where the two rulers spoke. She speaks of Mountain horses and it is his turn to be confused as he observes the pointed ear stallion. Any mention of the Mountain made him wary and his thoughts naturally turn to Carnage. Was that who she spoke of? It makes him wary but he still cannot shake how similar he seems to Offspring, something that once seen can’t be unseen.
“Funny how the magic works though, he didn’t look like that when Cheri and I first met him.”
He keeps his one eye on the duo ahead of him as he realizes that his instincts were once again on point. So Cheri did know this stallion, perhaps a bit more personally from the implied tone of Aela’s voice. “Oh?” He asks with a general interest, looking to both Cheri and then Aela with polite curiosity. As if such a statement wasn’t groundbreaking in any way. “What did he look like then?’
Oceane calls for them but he lingers long enough to catch whatever it is that Aela responds with before going to join her at her side. Whatever the fiery golden mare says is enough to make him think and when the Loessian Queen asks of staying or leaving, his choice is (of course) to leave with her. There is something he needs to tell her, something he thinks important. He offers his own polite goodbyes to the gathered crowd before ambling off by her side although his eye lingers for a moment on the red gaze of the Fae Prince. Similar. So very similar, he thinks.
Ledger
@Cheri
@Aela
@Oceane
Looks like it's just the golden trio ;p