The little buckskin is alone, leaving her beloved daughter in the capable hands of child-minder Cam. She needs the rest, her body finding it difficult to recuperate from the traumatic birth. She rests by the magic pool, the oasis gifted by the spirit of Beqanna to their desert home. Her home.
Her eyes dance along the surface of the water, watching the sunlight split and glide, collide and escape. She cocks her head, wondering what the spirit wanted when it created such a thing, what it expects of her as Queen of this land, what it expects of all whom dwell here in the empty sands. After all, the sands have never been so empty. Yael could save Van's garden with her magic, Cam could save Gumpy with hers, but everything else has been laid bare. A blank canvas for a new generation of desert-dwellers.
A black figure flits across the horizon, gliding closer to the inviting water that the little sun-Queen diligently guards. At first, she is a flitter of shapes and a mere outline of a form, but the closer she comes, the more solid the mare looks - her body uninterrupted by the radiation the shimmering heat from the desert ground. Pevensie can fully perceive her now, a proud figure, a picture of femininity/
Pev advantages from underneath the shady palms, quivering beneath the oppressive heat of the sunshine. It feels too much when even putting one hoof before another is excruciating, but she must carry on, bare on through the pain and fulfil her duties to the kingdom. Besides, it is not this mares fault that she must endure this pain, if anything, the blame can only rest on Pev's on shoulders. Yet, if this is what must happen to have made her daughter, the sun-mare would still not change a single thing.
She limps stiffly around the edge of the pool, slowly but surely making her way about to greet their newest visitor. She can only assume there mare is here to compete in the mocks, for that is why the most recent deluge of newcomers has advanced upon her sandy kingdom.
"Welcome. A thousand greetings from the Deserts," she says by way of introduction, bobbing her head subtly, smiling her steady warm smile. "I am Pevensie, Queen of the Deserts. I hope your journey was not too difficult," she adds, "What has brought you to our lovely sandy kingdom today?"
