show them the joy and the pain and the ending; Wolfbane

[Wolfbane]

WOLFBANE

For a very brief period of time during Bane’s childhood, Longclaw had been close to a normal father. Better than, actually, because he was present and committed to the rearing of a colt he considered his natural heir. The smattering of other siblings Wolfbane grew up with were also important to the late warg; he never denied them guidance or affection when that spark of sanity returned to him, but there had always been too much of Bane’s grandsire in the old guard of Tephra.

Funny, that he should know plenty of the nightmarish self-manipulator while knowing little to nothing about the roan grandmere who truly started it all.

Upon receiving her vision, the Pirate Lord startles himself into a backwards, braking sort of flap with his wings, avoiding a near-catastrophe with the irregular spires of red stone he often used to practice maneuvers. He’s not sure what to make of it - inspiration from the gods, perhaps? - but knows that his curiosity won’t allow him to ignore it.

For a moment he hovers, contemplating if he should bring others along for reinforcement, and then he reasons that if he’s going to deal with something supremely magical, he might as well be the sole brunt of its forces.

Clearly, the sender wasn’t the shy sort.

From aloft, Wolfbane banks on icy winds to backtrack and coast for the spot Heartfire has supplied to him. There’s little hesitation in his flight; the striped oddity rockets through snow-laden nimbus with breathtaking speed, cutting a sharp circle above where she waits for him, eyes narrowed and intuitions honed. There seems no reason for alarm, not yet anyways, so he drifts lower until his legs are perching on a rough outcropping some meters away.

From where he stands, just inside the border, they view each other wholly and face-to-face. “Was that you?” He asks inquisitively, knowing the sapphire and white-flecked mare will either understand completely or not at all.

|| The Pirate Lord of Loess ||

@[Heartfire]