[private] Desolation comes upon the sky // Leilan

[Scorch]

WATCH THE FLAMES CLIMB HIGH INTO THE NIGHT

Well, for all his trickstering as a child and even now as an adult, Leilan knew his mother better than perhaps many of her children. He understood how highly the mare felt every emotion, no matter its kind, and knew also not to get in the way of the expression of such. His neck draped around hers, pulling her just as close, leaves her heart full and content, a smile blossoming wetly on her tear-streaked lips.

Too caught up in the swelling of her heart to react to her son's well-aimed jibe about manner, Scorch could only smile as she stepped back to exchange slightly calmer words with her youngest son. His voice sounded far deeper than when last she heard it (and just how long ago might that have been? When he was still a colt? Younger? She shook the thoughts from her mind. They were here together now), and she marveled at its sound.

He sounds like me, Hestoni mused from the Afterlife.
Yes, he does, Scorch conceded.

"Well, I'm glad you are back after all, my son." She reached out to nuzzle his nose affectionately, far from over the euphoria at getting to be in the presence of one of her own blood again. "Your father wants you to know he loves you, and while we're on the topic, so do I." She smiled again, snuffling, trying to reign in the tsunami of love that she felt threatening all her mental coastlines.

"But enough of this sappy stuff, I know it's boring to such dashing young men." Ah, sometimes the mom cliche just cannot be escaped. But she pushed on anyway, oblivious to how cringy she could be - far too happy to notice anything of the sort. "Is this the first land you've visited since the Reckoning? There are many others now... If I raised you at all right, I think you might be interested in joining one of them?"

Scorch

Once Khaleesi of the Amazon Jungle

@[Leilan]