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    Assailant -- Year 226

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    "But the dream, the echo, slips from him as quickly as he had found it and as consciousness comes to him (a slap and not the gentle waves of oceanic tides), it dissolves entirely. His muscles relax as the cold claims him again, as the numbness sets in, and when his grey eyes open, there’s nothing but the faint after burn of a dream often trod and never remembered." --Brigade, written by Laura


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        Thread: i had a feeling so peculiar
    Post: RE: i had a feeling so peculiar

    For a moment, Islay thinks of Aedan. She thinks of Islandres - her island - and she thinks (knows) she is a fool for leaving it behind. As a filly, the mainland had never intimidated her. It had ne...
    Islay Forest 2 1,109 02-27-2022, 03:29 PM
        Thread: i had a feeling so peculiar, aedan
    Post: RE: i had a feeling so peculiar, aedan

    It was not the night as they knew it. It had been something different, but that has been something Islay has come to associate with living. Things never can quite go to what they were. Change is an in...
    Islay Islandres 6 1,496 02-27-2022, 03:00 PM
        Thread: i had a feeling so peculiar
    Post: i had a feeling so peculiar

    Why would she leave Islandres? It isn’t for good. She may no longer be Chieftain, but the recent rumors of how Beqanna has reached even the isolated shores of her tropical home and the piebald mare...
    Islay Forest 2 1,109 01-30-2022, 08:56 PM
        Thread: i had a feeling so peculiar, aedan
    Post: RE: i had a feeling so peculiar, aedan

    Islay had never imagined leaving Islandres. Why would she? She could bring the Heavens to the shore, if she wished it. She could bring the stars and moons and the heavens here, without ever hav...
    Islay Islandres 6 1,496 01-17-2022, 06:17 PM
        Thread: i had a feeling so peculiar, aedan
    Post: RE: i had a feeling so peculiar, aedan

    Her days are spent as consistently as the tides coming and going. She frequents her favorite grazing spots, moves along the familiar black sand beaches, and when the weather is fair enough, she wa...
    Islay Islandres 6 1,496 12-08-2021, 08:41 PM
        Thread: i had a feeling so peculiar, aedan
    Post: i had a feeling so peculiar, aedan

    Islay wasn't usually prone to spiteful thoughts, but the moment she had heard that Southern Kingdom was swallowed by the sea, she found some minute amount of joy at imagining the Pampas underneath the...
    Islay Islandres 6 1,496 12-07-2021, 08:24 PM
        Thread: so give me hope in the darkness
    Post: RE: so give me hope in the darkness

    There had been those first blind moments of terror - paralyzing fear (worse than any monster they might have found on the ground, she thinks) where her mind had said: you cannot. To fly is to defy gra...
    Islay Meadow 20 4,862 04-28-2021, 04:57 PM
        Thread: there must be something in the water; Islay and Fenwe
    Post: RE: there must be something in the water; Islay an...

    She's still thinking of that poor starfish from the shallows when Gale comes too close and then Islay doesn't think of anything at all. He had done this when she had been small - a reassuring gesture ...
    Islay Islandres 10 2,561 04-18-2021, 05:47 PM
        Thread: there must be something in the water; Islay and Fenwe
    Post: RE: there must be something in the water; Islay an...

    The two-toned girl looks up, momentarily startled by the presence of another. A glowing mare - perhaps a little older than herself - approaches and Islay has to ignore the desire to tug on the shadows...
    Islay Islandres 10 2,561 04-17-2021, 06:51 PM
        Thread: there must be something in the water; Islay and Fenwe
    Post: RE: there must be something in the water; Islay an...

    Islandres has been a quiet place to grow up. Islay has learned to count her days with the tides - with the way that they lap against the shore and recede from their black beaches. But her nights, ...
    Islay Islandres 10 2,561 04-14-2021, 07:26 PM
        Thread: so give me hope in the darkness
    Post: RE: so give me hope in the darkness

    No way to think? Islay blinks once, unaccustomed to this hardness in the winged stranger. Her stars were always kind. Her heavens always left room for doubt but then her universes always knew how t...
    Islay Meadow 20 4,862 04-14-2021, 07:09 PM
        Thread: so give me hope in the darkness
    Post: RE: so give me hope in the darkness

    If there is darkness in @[mariner], can she craft it? Islay, who has used the darkness as a playmate and a helpmeet, is familiar with the darkness all around them. It is perhaps why she is so bold ...
    Islay Meadow 20 4,862 04-07-2021, 09:41 PM
        Thread: so give me hope in the darkness
    Post: RE: so give me hope in the darkness

    @[mariner] remains as much a mystery as anything else in this dark world. She teases him (and she can't help it, though she reprimands herself for it now; not everyone knows how to greet her playf...
    Islay Meadow 20 4,862 04-02-2021, 10:58 AM
        Thread: someone whose course is steadier than mine; islay
    Post: RE: someone whose course is steadier than mine; is...

    The heat that wraps around Islay feels almost like an embrace and so she had dropped all her shadow camouflage. Islay had dropped her veil the moment she had realized that it was Aesta's warmth rushin...
    Islay Tephra 5 1,827 03-24-2021, 08:42 PM
        Thread: so give me hope in the darkness
    Post: RE: so give me hope in the darkness

    All Islay has known is kindness. Her nights had been spent under the tutelage of her ever-patient father - learning the secrets of starlight and how to divine the weight of shadow. She wasn't an o...
    Islay Meadow 20 4,862 03-24-2021, 07:39 PM
        Thread: so give me hope in the darkness
    Post: RE: so give me hope in the darkness

    Perhaps she is foolish to assume he is good because he is star-marked. Islay has seen the cosmos written on the skin of others and yet as she smiles at Mariner, it doesn't occur to her that he wou...
    Islay Meadow 20 4,862 03-11-2021, 10:22 AM
        Thread: so give me hope in the darkness
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    Islay flickers in and out of existence. She is there and then gone again. One moment, a girl of cloud and sky and then there is nothing but the swallowing darkness that devours everything. It happe...
    Islay Meadow 20 4,862 03-07-2021, 10:55 AM
        Thread: so give me hope in the darkness
    Post: so give me hope in the darkness

    Her stars are gone and she misses them. Islay has looked up to sky and it has been empty for months now. Devoid of the cosmos that she has adored and has spent most of her young life recreating. Sh...
    Islay Meadow 20 4,862 03-04-2021, 01:59 PM
        Thread: someone whose course is steadier than mine; islay
    Post: RE: someone whose course is steadier than mine; is...

    It's been just a few short weeks since their last meeting and yet their world has been turned upside-down. The sun rose one day to greet the moon and then the pair had stayed like that, intertwined in...
    Islay Tephra 5 1,827 03-04-2021, 12:26 PM
        Thread: someone whose eyes are on the horizon
    Post: RE: someone whose eyes are on the horizon

    It had taken only an instant to find her. There were plenty of other horses around us - some weanlings, yearlings, and small family bands - and yet she had stayed. It's something that I hadn't even re...
    Islay Meadow 11 3,049 02-05-2021, 02:03 PM