09-08-2016, 01:55 PM
The kingdoms have dissolved, but Kreios is wary. Have the chains that bound - and separated - them dissolved as well?
The Amazons and the Falls have not always been on the best of terms, but he has never known an Amazon to go back on their word. Of any kingdom native, Kreios would first trust an Amazon. He knows the same cannot be said for a member of the Falls (they are so neutral as to be unreliable, so friendly to all as to be true friend to none). Still, he knows the horses of his kingdom - the horses who still swear him their allegiance - to be faithful and loyal creatures, and above all else: empathetic.
The unfamiliar tobiano mare answers the questions that Lagertha had posed to Kreios, and the heavily built stallion nods his agreement with her reply. This is their Beqanna, but it is a new Beqanna. Who truly knows what is beyond the mist?
Kreios and his merry band are willing to find out, as several bands before them have now done.
He hesitates only a moment, knowing that whatever is in the blue and silver Beyond, it is better to face it with more watchful eyes than with none.
"I am to ask for a land soon," he tells Queen Lagertha (for she was the last queen of the Amazons he had known of). "You and the other women are welcome to take shelter with us there - wherever there is - while you build up your own strength again." He does not say it aloud, but wonders if the same strength that held the Amazons together will tear them apart in this new world. Their women were fiercely independent, and each seemed to to consider herself the best candidate for leadership. Will the same be true in this place where all are on equal footing?
"My kingdom has given their assent to myself as their leader, though I would not ask the same from you." He speaks to all three women, knowing that his offer might seem to have implied that he wishes something in exchange. He does, of course, but it is not their fealty - only their watchful gazes and their renowned battle skills as they venture in the unknown.
The Amazons and the Falls have not always been on the best of terms, but he has never known an Amazon to go back on their word. Of any kingdom native, Kreios would first trust an Amazon. He knows the same cannot be said for a member of the Falls (they are so neutral as to be unreliable, so friendly to all as to be true friend to none). Still, he knows the horses of his kingdom - the horses who still swear him their allegiance - to be faithful and loyal creatures, and above all else: empathetic.
The unfamiliar tobiano mare answers the questions that Lagertha had posed to Kreios, and the heavily built stallion nods his agreement with her reply. This is their Beqanna, but it is a new Beqanna. Who truly knows what is beyond the mist?
Kreios and his merry band are willing to find out, as several bands before them have now done.
He hesitates only a moment, knowing that whatever is in the blue and silver Beyond, it is better to face it with more watchful eyes than with none.
"I am to ask for a land soon," he tells Queen Lagertha (for she was the last queen of the Amazons he had known of). "You and the other women are welcome to take shelter with us there - wherever there is - while you build up your own strength again." He does not say it aloud, but wonders if the same strength that held the Amazons together will tear them apart in this new world. Their women were fiercely independent, and each seemed to to consider herself the best candidate for leadership. Will the same be true in this place where all are on equal footing?
"My kingdom has given their assent to myself as their leader, though I would not ask the same from you." He speaks to all three women, knowing that his offer might seem to have implied that he wishes something in exchange. He does, of course, but it is not their fealty - only their watchful gazes and their renowned battle skills as they venture in the unknown.