[private] playing hard to forget

[Nashua]

stars when you shine, you know how i feel
oh freedom is mine

He'd hoped to find his daughters.

With each returning visit to Taiga (or Nerine) that Nashua made, the striped pegasus found himself marveling at all the ways his daughters seemed to be constantly changing. Lumi seemed to spend more time with Noel (not that it bothered Nashua, it gave him an excuse to spend more time with her as well) than Ellie did, who seemed ready to strike out on her own the moment she had stood.

His eldest daughter was fearless and that... that made Nashua realize a whole new kind of fear.

Nashua had hoped that one of Yanhua's children might temper her wildstorm spirit, or at least steady it. But the winged girl spoke of her future adventures (and his knotted heart wondered if this was how Lilliana had felt when he had been small), of her desire to want to train and learn how to be a great warrior. Her pale head would tilt impishly up and tell her sire: 'Maybe I'll even be in the Alliance one day.' He had laughed and then told her, 'You'll probably get further than I did, too.'

The pegasus wonders if his divided time between the Isle and the mainland makes his family suffer (but then Leilan is his family as well). He worries about it but then the moments like this happen, where @[Oren] happily greets him and Nash feels like no time has passed at all. His younger brother is grinning and the older stallion grins back, a daredevil smile that reflects the sky that had he dived from (even as a new father, Nashua still enjoys his aerial thrills). His chestnut brow lifts at the colt's question and his sibling prompts him with: "What says you?" Was Oren wandering? He wouldn't be Lilliana's first child born with the wanderlust motivating his steps.

"I'd hoped to find her," the pegasus explains. "Have you seen her today?"

Or had the boy already been looking for adventure before their mother woke?

NASHUA

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