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WE BOTH LOST THE WAR • Solace - Smoak - 05-07-2018 Nothing feels familiar anymore. His face has grown gaunt, sunken around the bone protrusions that mark the ridges of his jaw and the flat plain of his face. His green eyes are darker than the last time he had seen Hyaline but they are still his ─ deep emerald, glimmering bright, but perhaps more dull than mischievous these days. The bone-armored stallion is exhausted ─ so exhausted ─ from the efforts of his travels. He had searched. And searched. And searched. But his parents had disappeared from Beqanna. And he has come to terms with their absence now, at least to the point of realization that he has done everything in his power to find them. If they had remained on the island, he would have found them. But how had they gotten off the island? Their scents had not disappeared into the sea ─ they had manifested in Sylva, in the depths of their golden forest, and without a trace they were gone. His nostrils quiver as he pushes the thought from his head, burying it deep as his green eyes fall on Solace's sanctum. Gone is the boy she had known. A tired, empty man has returned in his place. The light bay stallion follows a well-worn path towards the crystalline basin, his hooves working their way down the shale of the outer territory. He travels further and further in, the air growing warmer as he meanders but never bringing the wisteria to blossom. One more season, he realizes, and then the flowers will bloom their brilliant purple. He hopes he is still here to see them then. The son of Dahmer and Ellyse breaks through the inner forest of red maple and cherry, green eyes finally settling on the crystalline lake that is Hyaline's heart. He is awestruck for a moment, heart pattering excitedly for the first time in what feels like forever, before he whinnies hoarsely into the crisp spring air. "Solace?" he questions across the lake, his throat suddenly very dry. here's a handshake, soldier, 'cause we both lost the war @[Solace] RE: WE BOTH LOST THE WAR • Solace - Solace - 05-08-2018 Solace . . . @[Smoak] <3 RE: WE BOTH LOST THE WAR • Solace - Smoak - 05-09-2018 Smoak's anxious mind and staccato heartbeat are thankful that the beautiful blue-tinted best friend of his childhood heeds his call. But she is no child anymore ─ she has grown into her previously lanky legs, the curve of her hip prominent despite the shag of her winter coat. And her wings. He is in awe as she glides across the lake, wings extended proudly. Much has changed, but he would know her anywhere, even with the new additional of her feathered appendages. And even with the sleepiness that clings to the corners of her eyes. Her familiar, welcoming scent mingles with the unfamiliar scent of another, but the bay stallion is too overjoyed to be so near to her that this observation is noted as low priority for the time being. She smiles hesitantly at him but does not close the distance between their bodies as he would have expected her to ─ young Solace would have bounded to him, nearly knocking them both over before that sheepish blush would find her face. He smiles warmly at the thought and steps closer to press his cheek gently to hers as her intrigue falls from her lips. "Looking for my parents," he tells her without preamble or uncertainty. She deserves the truth from him and he deserves someone to share it with for the first time in years. "They disappeared," he tells her, the sad grimace reaching his voice as he pulls his bone-armored face from hers, "They're gone from Beqanna. I would have found them if they weren't." His green eyes inspect her for a moment before he nudges her again on the cheek and smiles warmly at this feeling of home. "Wings, huh?" trying to move the conversation to Solace. "I didn't know you could look anymore beautiful," he adds offhandedly, with a small inkling of his old self hidden somewhere in the depths of the thin man's body. "What have I missed, Lace? Tell me everything." here's a handshake, soldier, 'cause we both lost the war @[Solace] RE: WE BOTH LOST THE WAR • Solace - Solace - 05-11-2018 Solace . . . @[Smoak] RE: WE BOTH LOST THE WAR • Solace - Smoak - 05-12-2018 "No apology needed, my dear, unless you are hiding them away," he responds with the hint of a smile curving up the corners of his mouth. He withdraws from her, albeit slightly, and the new space between them is cold but mixed with her scent and he can feel himself relaxing in her presence. His childhood friend, ever the optimist, offers a simple solution to his problems ─ the plains, where Tangerine is from. He chuckles quietly in response and gives a gentle nod in affirmation. That was an explanation he could wrap his mind around. Perhaps they were not actually in the plains with the wild and free, beneath the millions of stars that Svedka had told him so much about, but it will do for now. Until his worry comes back, full-fledged, and forces him to search again. "I'm happy to be back, too," he whispers gently, the words wrought with emotion as the blue-tinted girl drapes her neck over his withers. Smoak leans into the embrace, a quiet sigh slipping from his maw at the warmth and familiarity of her. He is self-conscious, for a brief moment, of the severe dip in his back and the sharp presence of his ribs, but the beautiful winged woman seems not to notice nor care about the state of his thin thoroughbred frame and for that Smoak is thankful. Their embrace ends too soon and he does his best not to look disappointed, but the son of Dahmer and Ellyse is caught up quickly in Solace's excitement. "Hyaline is lucky to have you at its helm, Lace," he tells her truthfully, his boyish grin returning and his spirits rising. Politics had been far from his mind for as long as he had been gone, but now that he has returned and the sanctity of Hyaline, Solace, and Svedka could be threatened by outside forces, Smoak finds it easy to jump back into the conversation about foreign relations. "Which kingdoms? Do any threaten Hyaline?" His ears flutter, emerald eyes watching Solace closely as her demeanor begins to change. She seems hesitant for a moment, unsure in her silence; her wings rustle at her sides awkwardly and Smoak purses his lips in confusion. I found someone, Smoak. Admittedly, he hadn't expected for those words to fall from her lips and he struggles for a moment, silent as the uncertainty reaches her usually warm eyes. "Oh," he expels with a quiet exhale, though he's unsure if it will come across as surprise or disappointment. Kagerus. Smoak mulls over the name in his mind, listening intently as the painted girl tells him of her lover. He smiles fondly at the mention of Warrick, deciding that he would need to venture to Tephra as soon as he was feeling healthy enough. "I'm so happy for you, Lace," he says after a moment of heavy silence, his soft muzzle reaching out to nuzzle against her cheek again. "She sounds like she is good for you, and for Hyaline." He pauses, more words caught on the back of his tongue as he wonders just how candid he could really be. After a few moments, he gives her a smile of whimsy. "I knew things would change in my absence but..." but what? but I had never expected them to change this much? but I had never thought I would come back to find you happy with someone else? He, as a colt, had been no sturdy or stable shoulder for her to lean on (in friendship, yes, of course ─ but he had been folly to think that he would have years to tell her how he truly felt). Any missed chances are his fault and his alone. "And what of Svedka? Has he found someone to keep him in line?" he asks nonchalantly, in an attempt to change the subject to something that would bring him a little less emotional turmoil. here's a handshake, soldier, 'cause we both lost the war @[Solace] RE: WE BOTH LOST THE WAR • Solace - Solace - 05-21-2018 Solace . . . |