[private] what a shame, saffron

[bolder]

What happened to Saffron?

The question is there, bright in his silver eyes as a full moon. Bolder looks over his triplet sibling again, a sweeping gaze that takes in the unusual growths and the way that there is something pained behind his brother’s hazel eyes. It feels like a lifetime since he has last looked into them, and yet, it feels like nothing has changed at all.

Noel had brought him news over the years of his brothers and sisters. She had told him what was happening in their family, and while Bolder contented himself with the thought that they were fine, Saffron looked anything but. There is concern written all over the moon-marked face that peers at the flaxen-haired stallion. Bolder had been aware that both Bravely and Saffron would have grown as he did; it just never occurred to him that growing wouldn’t mean that they had grown as he had.

Saffron looks like their father - perhaps the one child that most looks like Nashua - and while that summons some of his old hurt, it is not his brother that he is angry at. It is the fact that his brother looks as if he has endured something and their father hasn't done anything about it. ”I -,” Bolder begins and then for the first time in years, finds himself at a loss for words.

How did he explain all the time that had passed?
What could he say about never returning to Taiga?

"I’ve missed you, too.” Bolder tells his brother, and reaches his mahogany muzzle towards the other chestnut. As if picking up on Saffron’s short sentences and unable to ignore his worry (even if he long ago abandoned a right to it), he asks, "What happened?”

@Saffron