01-16-2019, 08:43 AM
The trip to Sylva had broken whatever protection fleeing to the Brilliant Pampas might have given to Lepis and her family, and the need to hide in the grassy land has subsided. Time to venture out, she has decided, to see what has become of Beqanna during her year of seclusion.
Making such a trip while heavily pregnant is not her best decision, but the dun mare is a confident in her ability to protect herself and the child she carries. Her wings she is more doubtful of, and so her navy legs carry her into the Field this afternoon. The snow has melted away, leaving large puddles that she skirts carefully around. So focused is she on avoiding the deepest muck that she doesn't see the other horse until she's barged right into her.
"Oh," she says as she tries t ostep away and also avoid the water that fills the path around them, "Oh I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to..." Her voice trails off as she takes a better look at the buckskin mare that she's run into. "Mom?"
Lepis has not seen her mother in years and to find her suddenly - in the Field of all places - is a shock. Though she is a grown woman now and no longer a child, she still must raise her head to meet her mother's gaze. Heda looks much the same, Lepis thinks, which makes her all the more away that she does not. Lepis is suddenly reminded why she is so very grateful for the long navy mane that she has taken such an effort to maintain, for it hides the worst of her disfigurement.
"What...What are you doing here?" Still surprised, it is difficult to grasp the emotions that swirl through her - happiness, elation, shock, confusion. Why is her mother here? And perhaps more importantly, where has she been?
@[Heda]
Making such a trip while heavily pregnant is not her best decision, but the dun mare is a confident in her ability to protect herself and the child she carries. Her wings she is more doubtful of, and so her navy legs carry her into the Field this afternoon. The snow has melted away, leaving large puddles that she skirts carefully around. So focused is she on avoiding the deepest muck that she doesn't see the other horse until she's barged right into her.
"Oh," she says as she tries t ostep away and also avoid the water that fills the path around them, "Oh I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to..." Her voice trails off as she takes a better look at the buckskin mare that she's run into. "Mom?"
Lepis has not seen her mother in years and to find her suddenly - in the Field of all places - is a shock. Though she is a grown woman now and no longer a child, she still must raise her head to meet her mother's gaze. Heda looks much the same, Lepis thinks, which makes her all the more away that she does not. Lepis is suddenly reminded why she is so very grateful for the long navy mane that she has taken such an effort to maintain, for it hides the worst of her disfigurement.
"What...What are you doing here?" Still surprised, it is difficult to grasp the emotions that swirl through her - happiness, elation, shock, confusion. Why is her mother here? And perhaps more importantly, where has she been?
@[Heda]
