02-18-2020, 02:36 PM
O C E A N E
Hath in her veins,
to beat and run,
the glad indomitable sea,
the strong white sun.
to beat and run,
the glad indomitable sea,
the strong white sun.
The woman who pushes herself through Loess' shrubbery, dun and blue and winged and kind, instantly puts Alcinder at ease; he raises his small, pointed ears from their bed of wind-swept navy mane and offers her a breathy, excited smile as she mentions his parents. Alcinder pulls his lanky stilts beneath him (he has grown into them, but at only six months they are still nimbly, knobby things), settling into a more comfortable stance as his silvered eyes curiously analyze the woman before him.
"Mama told me about you!" he blurts in excitement just as she finishes introducing herself, pleased that, despite his time in Pangea, he has now met all three of the women that his Mama had told him had impacted her most while he'd still been growing inside her: Aquaria, Ilma, Lepis. "She said you showed her the secret den with the prickly pears," he adds, proud to remember that it was Lepis who showed his Mama the place that they had explored thoroughly during his first few months of life.
Oceane's loud whinny, emitted from above, interrupts their conversation. With folded wings, she plummets toward the sandstone ground and lands with a painful stumble; when she has risen from her front knees, the opalescent woman throws her wings wide and pulls Alcinder's tiny, winged frame to her chest. She curls her neck down and holds him tight with the underside of her chin, smiling and crying and laughing all at once. "You're home," she whispers, her throat tight, into the boy's ear. She continues to hold him, hesitant to break the contact, and rocks him gently to and fro. When finally she remembers they are not alone, the opaline woman turns her amber gaze gratefully to Lepis.
"Did you find him?" she asks, "Where was he?"
"I was in Pangea, Mama, and Cormorant was there, too," the young Alcinder responds before Miss Lepis is able to, "And I escaped from the claw-foot man and the angel-dragon lady! And then I found another one of your friends in the Forest, and he─" The blue-and-white colt peers around Oceane, both through the shrubbery and into the sky, for Leilan, "Well, I must have accidentally left him behind when I smelled home, but he said he is a dragon, too, like Dad!"
Oceane listens intently, her blood running cold at the mention of Pangea and Cormorant's presence there, too. She will have to find Castile again, and Aquaria, to see if the young finned boy had returned to his mother, as well. But she peers behind herself at the mention of another friend, one her son had seen in the Forest, and her first thought is the nomad Soran, but then ─ a dragon, too?
Her amber eyes flick back to Lepis, hoping that the Cleric would know which dragon he speaks of.
@[Lepis], @[Castile], @[Leilan]
""
"Mama told me about you!" he blurts in excitement just as she finishes introducing herself, pleased that, despite his time in Pangea, he has now met all three of the women that his Mama had told him had impacted her most while he'd still been growing inside her: Aquaria, Ilma, Lepis. "She said you showed her the secret den with the prickly pears," he adds, proud to remember that it was Lepis who showed his Mama the place that they had explored thoroughly during his first few months of life.
Oceane's loud whinny, emitted from above, interrupts their conversation. With folded wings, she plummets toward the sandstone ground and lands with a painful stumble; when she has risen from her front knees, the opalescent woman throws her wings wide and pulls Alcinder's tiny, winged frame to her chest. She curls her neck down and holds him tight with the underside of her chin, smiling and crying and laughing all at once. "You're home," she whispers, her throat tight, into the boy's ear. She continues to hold him, hesitant to break the contact, and rocks him gently to and fro. When finally she remembers they are not alone, the opaline woman turns her amber gaze gratefully to Lepis.
"Did you find him?" she asks, "Where was he?"
"I was in Pangea, Mama, and Cormorant was there, too," the young Alcinder responds before Miss Lepis is able to, "And I escaped from the claw-foot man and the angel-dragon lady! And then I found another one of your friends in the Forest, and he─" The blue-and-white colt peers around Oceane, both through the shrubbery and into the sky, for Leilan, "Well, I must have accidentally left him behind when I smelled home, but he said he is a dragon, too, like Dad!"
Oceane listens intently, her blood running cold at the mention of Pangea and Cormorant's presence there, too. She will have to find Castile again, and Aquaria, to see if the young finned boy had returned to his mother, as well. But she peers behind herself at the mention of another friend, one her son had seen in the Forest, and her first thought is the nomad Soran, but then ─ a dragon, too?
Her amber eyes flick back to Lepis, hoping that the Cleric would know which dragon he speaks of.
""
neamrel / thedayofshadow
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