[private] until the night turns

[Nashua]

Nashua would have come sooner, if he hadn't tried to seek out his twin first.
The only one who would have understood what Nash was really contending with.

But there had been no Yanhua to find.

As his mind considered all the possible outcomes behind the Curse stealing Bolder, it became clear to Nash that flying immediately into Hyaline couldn't be the first course of action. He had returned to Taiga ragged and tired; the healing that he had done for Ciri had taken much from him and his frantic journey to return to Noel and their children even more. That first night they had flown to the outskirts of Hyaline and as the striped stallion came panting near the border, he knew that he had been in no condition to face Gale.

It would either destroy him there in front of his mate and son, or perhaps harm them with Nash's healing spent on Ciri, unable to save them.

No, he realized. No, he needed his full strength and all his wits about him if he were to encounter the wretched thing that wore Gale.

He'd asked Noel to wait (not long) but Nash had wanted to be the first in Hyaline. Draped in the drab colors of the overcast clouds, the Northern King had gone invisible the moment he had flown over the mountainous border. His mind has a thousand versions of how this interaction will go but as his hooves touch down near the lake, they all vanish as he materializes. Bolder's scent fills his flaring nostrils and Nash knows that the boy has been here recently. Aching for his lost son, he quickly scans the horizon, hoping for a glance of golden stripes flashing in the dim spring light.

Nothing.

He clenches his jaw and looks briefly behind him, searching for Noel. Finding the space still empty, Nashua trumpets their arrival in the Eastern kingdom. A piercing sound that can't express the anger blazing through him but certainly doesn't hide the winged horse in the heart of Hyaline.

NASHUA

@ Gale @Mazikeen @Noel in no particular order - have at it