At first, she’d been terrified. Who wouldn’t be? The water had swallowed her whole and spat her out far away from the rest of Beqanna. She could’ve drowned, then. But she didn’t.
Thank goodness for that. Instead, she avoided the shore like the plague and yet never let it go far from her hearing. It was, simultaneously, her freedom and her guard. The only way, whether through teleporting or swimming, back to solid ground, back to the redwoods, back to Canaan. It was imperative now more than ever that she find him again. For all he knew, she was dead. But she wasn’t.
In fact, she’d gained more life than before. So, for her it was priority to at least see the gilded pegasus one more time. In her mind, she reasoned it was for tact; He should know, it was his right. Still … her heart knew better. She dreamed of this once, but the memory could not come to its fullness without him. She knew then that she needed him and this fact irked her - why should he know about her progress? He hadn’t come looking for her, had he, on his dark, mahogany-gold wings?
She’d almost forgotten to snap out of it. She remembered when she felt the shifting weight of bodies within her and it dawned on the green mare that she’d had a piece of him with her this entire time. That was more than enough to fill her air with lungs and send her down to the beach, where Circy closed her eyes and recalled the shape of his face while the water grabbed her body nimbly to pull it into the black depths.
It was like becoming a bolt of lightning. Like a mad, blue spark of electricity that was the key to an infinite possibility of doors. So many paths all at once and you have only that one, brief moment to choose.
Circinae finds him easily. She appears very suddenly near the bank: sodden, spat out once more but reeling less this time. With a shake of her inky crest the well-rounded mare quiets the feeling of hitting a brick wall with an exhale, “Hello?” finding its way out with the decompressed air. For a minute she’s afraid she’s gone somewhere wrong.
But she hasn’t.
@[Canaan]