i'm not looking for any particular new beginnings

[bolder]

He’d missed Malik this winter. Perhaps it was his recent run-in with his twin brother, Saffron, that had made him so melancholy of late. But Bolder had gotten stuck in his own head, and therefore, had remained stuck as a bear. There hadn’t been his brindled cousin to spar with, or to have a contest of the most creative shift with. Mazikeen had her new daughters to tend to, and with Myrna growing more independent, the young stallion found himself growing more restless.

There had been a few troubles in his mind (mostly revolving around his father), and so it had been much easier to be a bear about it.

Malik hadn’t been somewhere tropical, much to his dismay. But he had found an island with favorable winds and that sounds better than the winters they have both come to know in Hyaline. Never one to stay idle for long, the striped pegasus begins to move, listening while the other pegasus talks about everything that had transpired since their last meeting. There had been a lot to talk about; learning about his Uncle and the curse that had afflicted him had been incredibly hard for Bolder to stomach.

Learning about the first childhood that Malik had was harder (and it made him think of Sickle and her reluctance to return to Hyaline with a new understanding).

"It’s good to have you back,” Bolder says in a voice just as genuine as the look that his cousin gives him. "Do you plan on staying long, or is the wider world calling to you already?" 

@ Malik