the vows of ruin - star

[avocet]

"Well multi-thing shifter," Avocet jokes back, "nice to make your acquaintance."

He grins a little - boyish and lopsided - before it stifled a little. It never had really bothered Avo that he had been born trait-less. (Though he supposed it bothered Popinjay, just one more thing to add to her list of things that Avocet was lacking.) He had often wondered if his father was that way, a plain brown horse swimming in a sea of wild colors that were the horses of Beqanna.

It's something that he thinks in his manipulated memories that could see Popinjay doing. That his father was some poor innocent taken aback by his mother and her iridescent black wings, blazed with red. She had probably come upon him like a summer storm suddenly takes a blue sky and the poor bloke had probably never recovered.

Avocet even manages to wonder why his mother had children if she had planned on dumping them at the very first opportunity.

"Yes," the bay stallion says in a way that implies he is still teasing his new companion. It was an odd thought, that one hadn't heard of Carnage and he decides not to continue the joke. "He's a magician," Avocet starts to explain. "Or maybe a God." He shrugs his shoulders like it matters little to him.

(And it doesn't because, in his manipulated memories, Manikin has made him believe that if there is anyone capable of defeating Carnage, it would be Avocet.)

He broaches a sidelong glance at the other stallion, "Not a very auspicious sounding name though, is it?"

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