A Smouldering Fire.. Rapture ..Any

[Levi]

One red and one inky black – his eyes never leave the other stallion. His mannerisms, and the uncanny clicking, unnerve the young stallion.  He is not surprised to feels Rapture’s gentle touch alone the strings of his mind and he does not resist.  But even as his vision morphs back to normal he doesn’t spare a glance for her. This green creature, the protective father, as he would like to appear, disgusts Levi.

Unfortunately, Rapture had captured him for a moment in time and he can’t shake the feelings she had stirred in him.  That, and his dark curiosity, keep his leg like pillars set in the riverbank.
 
His voice comes out raspy and low, the voice of one who has had lungs filled with smoke far too often. “If you wanted to protect your daughter, you are a few hours late.” A sneer pulls at his top lip, uninvited, and his words are cool and bored.

When the blue girl had first approached as he lay nearly submerged in the river she had been broken, covered in a strange scent and tears. And then, somehow, she had drawn comfort from him. 

That other guy must have been pretty bad.

“Why don’t you ask Rapture what upset her earlier? “ His voice rises a little with the idea, partially because he wanted to know, what had happened to her?  His ears slowly unpin from the tangle on black mane below them.

He thinks about answer the question her father originally asked, but he can’t see the point of it and he doesn’t like to be baited along – and so it remains unanswered.

On a normal day, Levi wouldn’t blame someone for being suspicious of him, it was an image he allowed. He may not cultivate it, but he sure didn’t bother to make others think any differently about him. But today, when he had let someone behind his façade, he got caught.

You just aren’t you without me – the flames whisper to him.

But then, in contrast to the hiss of his flames, Raptures voice sooths the tension in the air. Scoff, sneer, scoff, momentarily he is distracted from this posturing to looks at her – the open face blue like summer day.

Levi

so scream you, out from behind the bitter ache.