up your bum and around the corner // Leander

[Kagerus]

Kagerus

{ and in my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times }

As the water slides off my figure and cools in the chill of the night air, I am utterly unsuspecting; although there's an air of familiarity about the palomino, I pay it next to no mind. I don't consider that he might know about the time before (and if I did, I could take him there); I don't consider that I yet have ties to the time before the Reckoning (for I have a family now, one built entirely in this new world).

He mentions having seen it from the skies, and I smile a little bitter-sweetly at this. It's been some time since I sported wings, having dreamt of other things - ahem - since reuniting with my wife after a rather lengthy period away. Still, I offer Leander a nod of encouragement. "I'd be glad to show you around any time you'd like. We are an open bordered kingdom though, so feel free to come unannounced."

I'm about to follow up my introduction with an inquiry as to his own accomplishments when the sound of my name upon his tongue interrupts me; I pause, not bothered at all by his interjection and in fact quite intrigued by it. The way he leans towards me, eyes flicking between both of mine almost incredulously, as if my name might be that of a God he'd once worshiped. But his next words reveal the truth of his searching gaze, and in fact it leaves me more breathless than if a God had come down to greet us.

"Y-Yes," I stammer. "She's... My grandmother."

Heart pounding, I become acutely aware of how the moonlight hits my side, illuminating the leopard markings which perfectly mirror hers; a parting gift from her, after the first and last time we met. Even this encounter is years passed now, and in the peace of our meeting I'd almost stopped considering the vastness of her lineage; I'd forgotten that others beyond Kavi's line still roam these meadows. The thought leaves me wide-eyed, leaning forward just as he does.

"...Did you know her?"