the firestarters always get the burns
and the good guys never get the girl
In the end, she does not want to hurt him; does not want to go around him. She still wants to see him as her friend. Albeit not her best friend - friends should not let friends down, but she was not going to stoop to the level of eye-for-an-eye, nor would or could she purposefully ignore him for the rest of her life.
She doesn’t know what exactly to say, where to begin. She no longer has a conflicting loyalty against him - the last grain of it had fallen away with the transition of queens in Nerine, and Lepis leaving Taiga. She only holds their shared past and accusations, but she will not lay them at his feet with an accusing look.
She only wishes to mend, and to mend, one must forgive. It took her a while to find it - but breaking down with Noah ultimately lead to finding it buried deep within herself.
She was never built for holding grudges, not for revenge. Not that she will forget - perhaps they’ll never be as close as they were going to be once - she is more reserved, now.
It’s with that purpose that she finds herself once again wandering towards Loess. Or, wandering… the white mare only truly wanders the last bit, to be honest. Most of it she does by flight, leaving her youngest children in the care of their father.
How ironic is it that he also shifts into a dragon now. But then again… Svedka was a mountain lion, Adriell an owl. She had her fair share of predators, and yet here she is.
Yet another predator to face.
@[Castile]