[open] It is the nature of dreams to end // pq help needed

[Warlight]

Warlight

She had tried to ignore the truth, to fight through the symptoms, and still participate in daily life with her rowdy brood. She didn't want to admit there was a thread of fear in her - a reluctance to return to The Mountain and claim what the Dark God had only half suggested he would give her.

It was poorly timed though, she wouldn't have gone the first place if she had read the warning signs her body had been giving her; she would have never called on Carnage if she knew of the child she carried. A fourth foal hadn't been in the plans, not for years at least - not when she had just recovered her independence after two years raising the twins.

But it had always been her way to act before she thought, especially if she glimpsed a goal, and although she had cursed herself for the pain her ambition had brought her, she wouldn't change what she had done now.

Despite her own sickness, she had given birth quietly to a healthy daughter, and she had a partner who was doing more than his fair share to bring her up right. She was lucky. And she had a way to end her curse, she just had to bring herself to take the final step and put in the work.

But she had no strength for such things now, after a day of hiding her discomfort, her weakness, and being there for her daughters. She just wanted to collapse. The sun has sunk below the earth's edge, and Will walks through the purple-grey haze of late-twilight with a lowered head. The healing pool is close ahead, and she knows there at least she will find some relief, if no true healing.

— soul as sweet as blood red jam —

looking for a horse to help her! "help" can be interpenetrated pretty broadly... but it must include the use of a trait to meet the requirements of her quest