09-07-2016, 02:02 PM
Home has always been a place of his own choosing. Even when he was an all-but-mute child, weak and bullied by his older twin, Kreios' parents had made it clear that the only loyalty he owed was the loyalty to himself and to those who he swore to protect. Of course, that implied that he would serve a kingdom, because all horses in their family have served kingdoms, but the foundation for his own personal definition of home had been laid long before he was even a weanling.
He had sought sanctuary in the Falls, and then taken its throne as a favor for a friend,. He had held it for love of the people and then love of his queen, and even now, when the physical land is gone he is still tied to his promises to those residents who called him king. It is them that he was looking for when he had stumbled across Lucrezia, and it is to them that he intends to return.
"Beqanna was angry," he says simply, heaving his spotted shoulders in a shrug. And she had every right to be, when even her drowning of Kreios and Lucrezia's childhood home was not enough to stop the greed. "Now, I suppose it is time to rebuild. Or build something new, perhaps." Something new might be better - there are too many wars built on the old ways. "I'm headed to the Mountain," he tells her, "I'm going to ask for a place where we can start again."
He had sought sanctuary in the Falls, and then taken its throne as a favor for a friend,. He had held it for love of the people and then love of his queen, and even now, when the physical land is gone he is still tied to his promises to those residents who called him king. It is them that he was looking for when he had stumbled across Lucrezia, and it is to them that he intends to return.
"Beqanna was angry," he says simply, heaving his spotted shoulders in a shrug. And she had every right to be, when even her drowning of Kreios and Lucrezia's childhood home was not enough to stop the greed. "Now, I suppose it is time to rebuild. Or build something new, perhaps." Something new might be better - there are too many wars built on the old ways. "I'm headed to the Mountain," he tells her, "I'm going to ask for a place where we can start again."