show them the joy and the pain and the ending
It is perhaps fortunate that she had not truly settled into any one place before the Reckoning. It gives her much less to miss now. True, she had called the Deserts home, but it had not been her home so much as it had been her mother and father’s. This allows her an openness when considering these new homelands that so many others might not have.
Still, there is plenty to miss. Her once incredible abilities, for one. But she has always been a pragmatic sort. She knows what she must do to earn them back, and so she will. She might often be described as calculating (of which there is no doubt she is) and just a bit cold, but never mistake that for unfeeling. She is not unsympathetic to the plight of Beqanna and what had been taken from her without thought (she had seen too much of it not to be aware after all).
All this talk of lands if very intriguing however, and perhaps now, finally, there is a place she might truly call home. The talk of Nerine does intrigue her. She knows of the former Amazonians of course. Everyone does. She might never have lived there, but her father had been born there (she, too, is the granddaughter of a former Amazon queen). Because of his gender, Shahrizai might not have been well suited to to place, but that does not mean Heartfire was not curious.
”Interesting, indeed,” she responds thoughtfully. ”Though, I must admit, odd to think of stallions joining the ranks of the sisterhood. That should be… an intriguing change, to say the least.” Her curiosity had led her to spy quite a bit on the sisters in her previous life (the plethora of creatures in the Jungle had been quite helpful too), but she doesn’t feel any need to elaborate on her previous life as a pocket spy.
As Lucrezia continues, Heartfire shifts her attention, ears perking a bit at the mention of the Deserts. They have something in common, it seems. ”So, another displacement from the Deserts?” Her lips quirk into the faintest of smiles at the pale mare’s description of Tephra. ”Sounds like a bit of an improvement.”
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i filled up my senses with thoughts from the ghosts