[open] i'll burn it down; Rey & Any

[Breckin]

The swim to Icicle Isle had been taxing; she'd never been much of a graceful swimmer to begin with and she could practically see Ivar's face smug smile taunting her as she cursed her lacking skills.  But she took advantage of it, turning  it into fuel to feed the small kindling of stubbornness she still held.  She'd make it to that bloody fucking island even if it would nearly drown her.

It's not done prettily, but she makes it to the freezing shoreline all the same.  Practically dragging herself up the gentle slope of the water's edge her heated sides work feverishly to compensate for the exertion and her dark eyes scan the area around her, attempting to gain some type of desperate bearings.  The harsh winds shift around her, picking up the drenched mess of a mane that had been clinging to her neck, and it carries the scent of those both familiar and unknown.  The tentative plan had been to call the ones that had called Nerine home to her, so that she could update them on the merging kingdoms and the agreement with Brennen.  But the scent of the bay pegasus is one of the few she could recognize, having only just been in his company so recently.

Without an announcement after all, her curiosity finds ground and her pale brows knit together inquisitively as she moves upwind.  Breckin finds the gathering quickly enough, increasing her pace when draws closer, recognizing the expressions of the ones she knew as nothing short of straining tension.  Leilan, Heartfire, Castile...she loved and admired them all dearly in their own way, regardless of what they even actually thought of her, but they were all passionate and quick tempered in their own way also, and that's reason enough to motivate her protesting body.

Her gaze briskly glances over at the other party of unknowns, wondering what their purpose was, also noticing that the pale green mare whose image Heartfire had sent was not amongst them.  Despite the rapidness in which she nearly closes the distance, she's not close enough to make out any of the conversation, not before the ground beneath her groans and pitches, the misstep causing her balance to falter.  She stumbles, but catches herself, and raises her head in time to watch awestruck as a plume of frozen earth and dust rises and shatters.  The blast knocks her near senseless within a second, but the strength of will and defiance of instinct has her running into the consuming smoke.  The leopard mare aims for the ones she knows first, targeting her telekinetic abilities to catch and parry the largest of the stone fragments that threatened to rain down on those she cared for.  The ringing of the blast in her ears intensifies with the mental exertion, willing to take the hits of rock as they land blindly on top her in favor of using her powers to protect the others. 

She's only mildly aware of the other grouping, but still, she uses the strands of her telekinesis to try to divert the debris that threatens to fall over them, though it is weaker then the force she uses to shield her own family.  The strain begins to take its toll, she cannot keep her hold for much longer, and the exhaustion she had fought off so fiercely bears down upon her.  Gravity becomes too difficult to resist, and her legs buckle beneath her.  Using what's left of her failing strength she makes one final plea before her vision starts to blur.

"Brennen, get them out of here.  All of them.  Please!"   I'll be fine, she means to say that last part out loud, but the words never escape her lips as the world darkens around her.

OOC: So she decided to come see how things were going on icicle isle and now she's trying to protect everyone from falling rubble by deflecting the debris with her telekinesis and asking @[Brennen] to get whoever is still there to safety if he can, meaning everyone involved in this thread.  She doesn't care where he sends them, if he even does or can, she just wants them moved *somewhere* out of the way.  And then she passes out. also I did this at work so forgive anything that doesn't make sense. it's entirely up to Brennen if he can actually do it or want to, and then whether it effects everyone's characters is up to them also. This is just what silly Breckin was trying to do.

[Leilan]

Because I need sleep but can’t wait and post order already is broken.
@affy I assumed he heard that while walking to close in on them. But we can ignore his comment I think because nobody did much with it anyway.

Leilan

Glaciers melting in the dead of night
and the superstars sucked into the supermassive

The skeletal-winged mare is saying a LOT of things and naturally, they seem to make sense but they don’t. The logic is flawed. They come here for fairy magic protection and then deny it is actual protection, so they are stupid enough to threaten the kingdom that has just now, presented them with an icedrake, a dragon, a highly explosive ill-and-pregnant mare, and a magician. They have more where that came from but, shouldn’t that do the trick? Nevertheless they keep bickering, and he starts to lose his interest in what she has to say; instead looking rather much past and through her, where a nameless shadow forms. Awesome. But the creature doesn’t say much, and so it gets ignored, too.

He wouldn’t have had time to react anyway.

Rey appears - dressed for the occasion it seems - but she does the opposite of what he once expected her to be; the outgoing, chatty copycat is gone, now she is snarky, says they all fled their homelands (she is doing the same). Something more, too, but everybody gets ignored.

He doesn’t say a word. He doesn’t have to.

If he has to, however, he will stand here silently until they all give up and leave - he can do that. They could kill him and he’d still be here. He’d starve to death and live through it. Mules are nothing compared to Leilan.

For a moment, when Brennen arrives, he feels glad to be backed up, even if it does mean ‘hiding behind a magician’. He outs a soft question to the winged bay. ”Could you teleport others away from here?” he wonders. Let him make of it what he wants; either teleport the winged girl, and/or Oxytocin, and/or the horned one (he thinks they deserve to be put in Pangea or maybe a whole different dimension if that’s not too hard); or maybe he would have asked that he be put down near the Mountain, himself. He’d rather have no island at all at this rate, and judging by his previous accounter with the fairies, maybe if he asks politely they’ll let it sink back into the ocean.

But all of that is void, because he gets no chance of further conversation.

The blue roan sabino, pregnant and sick and all, steps forward. His head snaps around to look at her and he starts in a sharp tone. ”Hea-“ But he never makes it to the rest of her name, or if it does, it gets lost in the sound of the explosion. Rey is screaming something, but she disappears mid-flight and it’s just not important.

Part of Brennen’s magic seems to be shielding him from the worst of the shockwave; standing so close to a magician has it benefits  - but other debris parts are changing path in a different way, and so his attention falls on the white-ish figure rather quick. She screams that Brennen should get them to safety - knows she doesn’t mean herself - and reacts accordingly. ”Don’t you dare.” he grits through his teeth; either directed at Brennen or Breckin or both; no way he’s getting teleported away right now. He races to meet her because, if logic prevails then she will be stubbornly trying to protect him instead of herself and then the only way to force her attention unto herself is by closing the distance.

Logical as it may be, she’s stretched herself way too thin. When he reaches her she is gone; eyes rolled back, freezing cold from her recent swim, and fallen to the ground. Too late to catch her, yet quick enough to shield her from the last falling rocks that would otherwise have wounded her - including, or especially, the one that cracks his skull because it lands sharply on the base of his skull where it attaches to his neck: and for a moment the world is pain and black as his limb body falls next to hers. Just within reach, though his eyes stare blankly, shocked by a rock.

Of course, this isn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.

He knows this when he is denied entrance again (why his soul is even directed there for the travel eludes him; it’s rather pointless that the trip to the Afterlife and back again is being made when everybody knows he will just slam into the invisible wall, like last time, like this time). He doesn’t really feel bothered; one doesn’t feel much when they’re dead - though when he wakes up and his headache is feeling like it’s slowly killing him (instead of slowly healing him) he wonders if it wouldn’t be easier to just ask the fae to let him die.

But she’s still here - maybe his sense of urgency got passed through and they’d sent him back quicker this time. Who knows. Maybe the wound wasn’t that severe after all - who cares. He remembers why he’ll want to come back again and again. Even with stupid horses like those three (plus a shadow) around the place; that he can’t care about at this moment. All he cares about right now is right in front of him, and so it’s with the greatest strain he manages to shuffle forward one last bit to lie next to her, and just hoping his returning body heat is enough to prevent her from freezing to death.

He doesn’t say a word. He doesn’t have to.

you set my soul alight

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@devin Idk if Brennen actually wants to shield and/or teleport but I assumed that he might want to try to contain the rubble, and that Leilan was a moving target up until the point of briefly being dead. But if it needs a change let me know! xD