you were a shot in the dark
and aimed right at my throat
The girl is dancing and in the past, Lilliana might have laughed. Might have teased her and called her a nymph, teased her for resembling a nereid with all her aquatic finesse. Now the filly dances - gracefully and carefree - and the sound of the water that she splashes around brings the chestnut mare present. In the past, Lilliana might have even joined her and a bright, bubbling laughter might have come out to dance with them.
This is the present, though. And in Lilliana's present, she is away from the North. Brennen's Magic is nowhere to be found. The only chill in the air comes from an arctic wind that blows from kingdom, perhaps calling the chestnut mare home. It tugs on her mane and Lilliana shifts her weight, trying to adjust to the presence of the grey girl before her. She blinks and tilts her head, taking into account the lankiness (though still lovely) of her frame and how she is still long legs waiting to be grown into. The filly appears to be of an age somewhere between her twins and Aela.
An age that Lilli thinks is too young to be wandering the Common Lands on her own.
She wishes that the child had told her she had somewhere to go; somewhere to belong. She wishes that there was mention of a mother or a father but there is nothing. The girl has no one and the Taigan would never leave a young one to the elements, the unknown, to Beqanna. There could be nothing but trouble for her in the Northern forest. But, a voice tells her, but there could be trouble here, too.
A small part of her breaks to hear someone so young say they have nowhere to go. It's the way of the world, these tiny cruelties that knick her in different ways and yet Lilliana still aches at them, will always ache at them. It finally happens - a moment in the present - where a small smile quirks on the Guardian's dark mouth (for she remembers who she is; there is a girl in need of a home and this is something she could provide). "Would you like somewhere to go?"
And just like that, a beginning if the waterdancer wants it.
@[Borderline] this is not the best but wanted to get something up for you! <3