03-10-2020, 03:36 PM
A L C I N D E R
i go to seek a great perhaps
Alcinder settles comfortably into Cormorant, letting the warmth of their embrace settle the ragged nerves in his head and heart. He is not meant to be without his mother, but to know that he has the support from this finned-colt-turned-brother and his Aunts Aquaria and Lepis means more to the young colt than he knows how to express. So all he can do is hold Mo close for a time.
They break apart eventually and, Mo's eyes turned away, Alcinder's brother mumbles about needing to go home soon. To Ischia. This knowledge, though the thought had been lying dormant in the back of the blue-and-white colt's mind, forms a sad cloud in his mind. He knows, however, that the decision is not Cormorant's (and, further, he knows that Aquaria would only be making the decision because of her loyalty for her island home; he may be young, but Aunt Lepis had taught Alcinder as much about politics already as his insatiable mind wanted to know).
He smiles at his friend, thought the expression doesn't quite reach his eyes. "I had a feeling you might have to go home soon," he says before nudging his friend's shoulder with his own warm muzzle, "But as soon as Mama is home, I know she'll want to go visit you and Halcyon and Aunt Aquaria. She kept talking about it before ─"
Alcinder pauses. Before everything happened? Before he was taken?
"You just have to make sure that you find all of the cool places in Ischia to show me before we get there!"
@[Cormorant]
""
They break apart eventually and, Mo's eyes turned away, Alcinder's brother mumbles about needing to go home soon. To Ischia. This knowledge, though the thought had been lying dormant in the back of the blue-and-white colt's mind, forms a sad cloud in his mind. He knows, however, that the decision is not Cormorant's (and, further, he knows that Aquaria would only be making the decision because of her loyalty for her island home; he may be young, but Aunt Lepis had taught Alcinder as much about politics already as his insatiable mind wanted to know).
He smiles at his friend, thought the expression doesn't quite reach his eyes. "I had a feeling you might have to go home soon," he says before nudging his friend's shoulder with his own warm muzzle, "But as soon as Mama is home, I know she'll want to go visit you and Halcyon and Aunt Aquaria. She kept talking about it before ─"
Alcinder pauses. Before everything happened? Before he was taken?
"You just have to make sure that you find all of the cool places in Ischia to show me before we get there!"
""
neamrel
i have slipped the surly bonds of earth
and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings
and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings