and she's buying her stairway to heaven; offspring

[Nikoline]

---and she's buying her stairway to heaven

The overo mare had not expected such kindness to exude from the dark male. His red eyes burned, tortured by something unspoken of. It was certainly not her place in which to ask. Instead the woman glances at her surroundings as a resonating smile touches her lips. Hazel eyes move to look at the well beaten path that lay beneath their hooves. Her's white and neatly trimmed, his feathered, heavy and large. How many had passed where they stood in this moment? Niko returns her attention back to the scarred, rugged features of the thoughtful man. "Nikoline, but Niko if you prefer." A smile touches her pale lips as it generates easily across her features. "I am not rather familiar with this part of Beqanna, would you care to walk with me?" She asks politely enough. It had been so long since she had seen her parents (she fears their deaths) or evena  familiar face but Niko speaks not a word of her concern so instead she looks to the tattered stallion. He could say no, fully capable in fact, so she waits with a forward ear. Autumn was a curious season and Niko wanted to drink in the blaze of colors, watch the way the squirrels scour for acorns, the 'V' of geese that fly above on a rich blue sky. Niko wonders briefly if she should retract her question. Did the stallion possess more than what met her eye? She could be naive at times since the Reckoning but in a moment's decision, she decides to trust the stranger in the woods with his knowing red eyes.

Nikoline

♥dante