02-10-2020, 03:38 PM
O C E A N E
We'll get him back.
Oceane nods slowly, aimlessly, at Lepis' quiet statement ─ it's all she can find the energy to do between the powerfully painful sobs that grip her opalescent body tight. She leans into the dun woman's touch when it's offered ─ the kind warmth of her muzzle fills Oceane with gratitude for her friend and reminds her that she isn't alone despite the hollow pit in her stomach that makes her feel otherwise.
She nods again when Lepis repeats her assertion and presses her own muzzle to the other pegasus when she promises to do so. Her heart swells with appreciation for this offered friendship and for the first time in weeks, she feels the tiniest tendril of hope blossom from the darkness within her.
This isn't your fault.
A gasping breath falls from her ajar maw. Her tear-filled, red-rimmed amber eyes meet Lepis' and she wonders if the woman is capable of reading her mind; it draws tears down her cheeks more swiftly and, as much as she wants to believe what her companion has s said, she finds it impossible to believe that this would have happened if she had just handled things differently the night that Aquaria had visited. "Thank you, Lepis," she whispers meekly into the darkness.
It's all she can bear to say for a long moment and then, feeling a sense of kinship with Lepis, she is finally able to tell the story she had never told anyone outside of Nau-Aib ─ the story of her mother's (the Queen's) adultery, of her peasant father, of the King who punished her for her lineage. She tells Lepis of the King's law: any son born to the members of the Royal Court would be murdered if not a descendant of the King.
And Oceane tells her of her two sons, born years apart to her and the stallion who'd once been her partner, who had been torn from her before they'd even fed for the first time ─ both tortured by the King, and then killed by the King's dragons.
The story is long and difficult and the content draws harsher sobs from the opaline woman, but finally she concludes the tale of her past and meets Lepis' eyes with a combination of despair and fury ─ "I can't lose another child, Lepis, I can't. I will let them take my life if it means Alcinder is returned safely to Loess."
@[Lepis]
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Oceane nods slowly, aimlessly, at Lepis' quiet statement ─ it's all she can find the energy to do between the powerfully painful sobs that grip her opalescent body tight. She leans into the dun woman's touch when it's offered ─ the kind warmth of her muzzle fills Oceane with gratitude for her friend and reminds her that she isn't alone despite the hollow pit in her stomach that makes her feel otherwise.
She nods again when Lepis repeats her assertion and presses her own muzzle to the other pegasus when she promises to do so. Her heart swells with appreciation for this offered friendship and for the first time in weeks, she feels the tiniest tendril of hope blossom from the darkness within her.
This isn't your fault.
A gasping breath falls from her ajar maw. Her tear-filled, red-rimmed amber eyes meet Lepis' and she wonders if the woman is capable of reading her mind; it draws tears down her cheeks more swiftly and, as much as she wants to believe what her companion has s said, she finds it impossible to believe that this would have happened if she had just handled things differently the night that Aquaria had visited. "Thank you, Lepis," she whispers meekly into the darkness.
It's all she can bear to say for a long moment and then, feeling a sense of kinship with Lepis, she is finally able to tell the story she had never told anyone outside of Nau-Aib ─ the story of her mother's (the Queen's) adultery, of her peasant father, of the King who punished her for her lineage. She tells Lepis of the King's law: any son born to the members of the Royal Court would be murdered if not a descendant of the King.
And Oceane tells her of her two sons, born years apart to her and the stallion who'd once been her partner, who had been torn from her before they'd even fed for the first time ─ both tortured by the King, and then killed by the King's dragons.
The story is long and difficult and the content draws harsher sobs from the opaline woman, but finally she concludes the tale of her past and meets Lepis' eyes with a combination of despair and fury ─ "I can't lose another child, Lepis, I can't. I will let them take my life if it means Alcinder is returned safely to Loess."
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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