the firestarters always get the burns
and the good guys never get the girl
She doesn’t hesitate to go and find Lepis as soon as she breaks from her conversation with Castile. She knows what is about to happen - Alcinder kidnapped, her move to follow the boy, his escape and then the new mother taken, still separated - and she has to tell someone. Someone who she thinks she can trust with the information that she dared not waylay to the dragon inside: he might have snapped, might have acted before anything had yet happened.
She nears the prickly-pear bushes in flight, the light on her back carrying her through the dragon’s kingdom after meeting with him. She’ll probably be surprised to see Ilma coming for her, but really the white mare is on edge, feeling like she barely has time for this visit.
”Lepis? I need to tell you something before I leave.” The moon-and-sunlight mare calls out, knowing the dun mare should be here any moment.
@[Lepis] A short post-Castile pre-steals thread for you because that’s how far behind I was with Ilma’s threads