02-05-2020, 02:55 PM
O C E A N E
Her heart still beats wild with adrenaline and fear, and her lungs still force her to take deep, gasping breaths ─ but despite this natural bodily reaction to danger, there's an apathy and listlessness inside of Oceane. She had smelled the scent on the wind as she floated silently over a sleeping Loess, the same one that had been left in the wake of Alcinder's disappearance, and she had turned her wings against the wind so swiftly and so aggressively that it had hurt. But it was not her son being returned to her.
The Loessian woman had folded her wings against her iridescent frame and fell to the earth, throwing her feathered appendages open wide just in time to land with a force that made her legs ache. Together, she and Lepis had driven him away, but all the while she had screamed at him: "Where is my son?! WHERE IS MY SON?! Where is my son!" The question had turned to sobs when she realized he had no intention of telling her; and now that he is gone, she lay upon the dark ground with her wings still unfurled and mournful against the ground.
Lepis asks if she is okay and the inquiry seizes her throat tight. The backs of her amber eyes prickle with the threat of tears and she exhales slowly, shakily, before turning her gaze away from the darkness and toward the blue-and-gold pegasus. "I think so," she whispers, the words cracking. Her entire body aches, but from a combination of things: her haphazard landing, the altercation with the horned stallion, the despair that has filled her since Alcinder had gone missing.
Lepis mentions the stallion's horns and disgust swirls in Oceane's stomach as she nods ─ "His eyes. He had red eyes." Her view of them had been fleeting, but they had nearly glowed beneath the silver rays of the moon. At Lepis' thanks, the opalescent woman allows the tears that swell in her eyes to fall across the blue and purple of her face; she can't acknowledge her friend with words, but instead succumbs to body-quaking tears at the feeling of failure that she had not been there to save her son when he had so desperately needed her.
@[Lepis]
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The Loessian woman had folded her wings against her iridescent frame and fell to the earth, throwing her feathered appendages open wide just in time to land with a force that made her legs ache. Together, she and Lepis had driven him away, but all the while she had screamed at him: "Where is my son?! WHERE IS MY SON?! Where is my son!" The question had turned to sobs when she realized he had no intention of telling her; and now that he is gone, she lay upon the dark ground with her wings still unfurled and mournful against the ground.
Lepis asks if she is okay and the inquiry seizes her throat tight. The backs of her amber eyes prickle with the threat of tears and she exhales slowly, shakily, before turning her gaze away from the darkness and toward the blue-and-gold pegasus. "I think so," she whispers, the words cracking. Her entire body aches, but from a combination of things: her haphazard landing, the altercation with the horned stallion, the despair that has filled her since Alcinder had gone missing.
Lepis mentions the stallion's horns and disgust swirls in Oceane's stomach as she nods ─ "His eyes. He had red eyes." Her view of them had been fleeting, but they had nearly glowed beneath the silver rays of the moon. At Lepis' thanks, the opalescent woman allows the tears that swell in her eyes to fall across the blue and purple of her face; she can't acknowledge her friend with words, but instead succumbs to body-quaking tears at the feeling of failure that she had not been there to save her son when he had so desperately needed her.
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i must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
and all i ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by
and all i ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by