Solace
Ash, hibiscus, loam - the scent of Tepra reaches her before she sees him. Under the heavy spices of her former home, the hidden figure's personal scent is obscured and she can only guess which man of the volcanic island has come to see her.
The mustang who reveals himself is not Smoak, as her heart had briefly hoped it would be - it is her third parent, the stallion who had been a fixture in her life and then simply disappeared. Not that she had blamed him, she understood his pain in a way that few could. He knew the secret which only her family knew about her, not even Smoak knew the full truth of what had happened that day.
He had found her, come just in time to tell her truth to Aemt and the Hyalinean residents - to tell them what they deserve to know. But first, he came to her (he always had been a kind soul) to warn her so she may flee her kingdom - or at least face the charges and their judgment with a solemnly bowed head instead of wide-eyes and hot tears.
The little light
Her pet nickname falling from his lips causes tears to sting her eyes, emotions she had long ago buried threaten to close her throat. Solace had planned on never speaking of that aweful day again.
Her light had been what killed Kaiode.
"I'm so sorry," she chokes -it's all she can manage. Rou had deserved to hear those words from her long before now.
Let him tell Amet the truth, she had no right to stop him. Once Amet knew how she had killed her adopted brother he would take back the crown that shouldn't even be hers to begin with.
Taking a life should require penance, and she had been made to pay none.
you are my sunshine
