09-18-2020, 04:48 PM
- it's in the eyes, i can tell you will always be danger -
we had it tonight, why do we always seek absolution?
LILLIANA
She shouldn’t be surprised by devastation, should she? Not when she has come to know it as closely as she has. Warden had shown her the damage wreaked upon Nerine (another prophecy fulfilled, an unchanging future that paid none of them any mind). The rain falls in a cold, lonely drizzle that keeps the despair in the air company.
Lilliana, who is normally so perceptive to the winds and their chills, doesn’t feel it soaking her skin now. She doesn’t even feel the frigid, bitter bite of winter. Why would she, when there is so much to feel here? Whatever physical ailments the chestnut might have suffered during the raid feel like mere scratches (though there is a deep bleeding cut on her brow, a long gash on her hind-right stifle) compared to the depth of emotion still lingering around the scattered Nerinians.
The copper mare does what she can but what, really, can she do? Her gift of Healing is gone; given in exchange for the life of the Water Magician. She does what she can but it never feels enough and she keeps reaching for something that is no longer there, something that terrifies her (because what if it’s finally happened? What if she has finally reached bottom and there is simply nothing left to give?)
Finding Ama saves her.
Though many of the faces in Nerine are those she would consider friends, Amarine is a little more. The girl had been brought to maturity alongside her own sons and Eurwen’s daughters. Despite no blood relation to the dappled Khaleesi, she had made Neverwhere a mother. @[Amarine] is family.
An injury to the young mare’s hind leg causes her blue eyes to deepen with concern. She is caked in mud and blood, rank in sweat, and Magic. "Ama,” Lilliana calls to her, beckoning to her from the direction that the flame-marked woman approached from. "Oh, Ama.” She starts and then stops because what more can she say?
Amarine stood shaking. Lilliana stood bleeding. Clearly, neither mare was alright. A sense of comfort started to fill the air between them and the Taigan closed her eyes, seeking a brief moment of respite after all the chaos. She had stood until the last of the Pangeans had left. It’s just in the after that she realizes how terrified she had been; for Yanhua, Amarine, Eurwen, Brennen, Beryl, and the others.
When the sense of comfort finally calms her enough, Lilliana opens her eyes and says: "You were very brave today, Amarine.”
but it's all in the past, love
it's all gone with the wind