[open] It is the nature of dreams to end // pq help needed

[Warlight]

Warlight

The sound of hooves on stone causes Warlight's head to lift from where is swings as she walks, and her weary, black eyes catch sight of the approaching mare. She pauses, admiring the gleam of the copper coat and the ease with which the stranger travels towards her.

A soft nicker floats in the air between, reaching Will just before the warm spice of the Taigan forest does. It is a familiar greeting, full of kindness and friendship, which perplexes her for a moment. But it is not long before the mystery is solved.

"Kagerus," Will finishes for her. "Easy mistake. I'm Warlight, her daughter."

Warlight smiles as the mare apologize, her sunburnt lips curving in the same salacious way of her mother. Although Carnage had taken her antlers, there were still plenty of qualities that linked the two women. Not that Kagerus often wore the antlers these days, but it was a feature that would be apart of Warlight's mental image of the mother Will most resembled, and it was a trait she was proud to carry - one she missed now more than her teleportation.

There is a moment where the other mare seems to notice that not all is the way it should be, and Will is not surprised. While she had not lost the clumps of fur during her second run-in with the plague, there were many other signs of her sickness. Her body was thin and her breathing shallow, and there was just a general lifelessness about her that she found difficult to hide. Every movement was taxing.

"Not completely," she replies, but there is no alarm in her voice. It would be absurd to lie so bluntly to a concerned stranger, an apparent friend of her mother, but her pride makes her stand a little straighter and look a little less pitiful. But Will feels the threat of a coughing fit beginning to tickle the inside of her throat and she takes the final few steps to the waterfall's healing pool before continuing with her answer. The tangle of her forelock falls across her face as her muzzle dips into the cool water where she drinks deeply for a moment before returning her dark eyes to Lilliana.

"I made a trip to the mountain a few weeks ago, and I'm paying for it now."

— soul as sweet as blood red jam —

@[lilliana]