Bound for trouble from the start
I've been walking through this old world in the dark
He had been honest with Ellyse when giving her the reason of where he had been. There had been an effort to be more integral to Tephra, to do his part. She was after all the Head of War. As her consort, he wanted to be seen as worthy of being by her side. A power couple if you will. The one eyed stallion leaves the warmth of the ashen lands and heads through the drifting snow towards the Field. It couldn’t hurt to see if anyone was freezing in the open space, longing for a home.
Flaxen tendrils fall over the clawed hollow of his empty socket, his remaining eye bright with the happiness that had finally embraced him. He was to be a father, his first child coming this Spring. He was nervous, not knowing what to expect. His relationship with Magnus had always been strained and fractured, no fault on either of them really. Unfortunate circumstances and cruel twists of fate had seen to that. There wasn’t a real idea of how to be a dad, having never had one till he was much older in life. However, he vows to do right by his child no matter the cost. To never let what happened to him happen to the foal. He would protect it all costs.
His thoughts are consumed by the impending birth of his foal as he finally comes to his distention. Not many have braved this winter, most having seemed refuge in the common lands where it offered some cover. There was one though lingering in the cold snow. A foal he thinks at first and instantly is seized by an image of himself, scared by the dead carcass of his mother’s body. Another image quickly follows, of an imagined child (his child) being alone and frightened.
Instantly he makes his way through the quickly piling snow, he would not let this one die. It becomes clearer though as he finally reaches her, that he had been wrong. It is no child but a small compact mare. He had seen ponies and smaller species of equine before and he smiles slightly, laughing internally at his own foolish. ”Welcome to Beqanna.” He starts, inhaling the strange scent of her as he extends his muzzle. Coming to the conclusion she wasn’t from her. ”I’m Ledger. I’m assuming you’re new here?”
Ledger