I kept my hope just like I hoped to // Will/Koko

[Warlight]

For once, it is not the sensation of teleportation which rudely wakes her.  It is a murmur in her ear - the whispered plea of a brother. 

"Hmm?" Groggy and little confused, Warlight blinks herself into awareness. The night is alive outside their den; crickets and bats are chirping, and owls call back and forth to each other from the tree-tops. She would know the sounds and scent of Hyaline anywhere. More immediately, she is surrounded by only the soft breathing of her sleeping family, and the warmth they have created. 

She prepares to return to her dreams, unsure of what woke her and unafraid of noises in the night - at least with both her mothers close by. 

But the tickling in her ear causes her to turn her head and find the face of her quietest sibling aglow, and very close. Oblivious to their guardians' scheming, the filly is eager to cooperate with whatever he has planned, and she rises carefully. As reckless as she may be under under other circumstances, now Warlight seeks to glide across the stone floor, creating as little noise as possible from her small, hard hooves. 

The last figure between her and the night is one she wouldn't mind waking, and the filly reaches to tug a wayward sprout of Koko's mane with her teeth in passing - but she doesn't linger. Two more steps bring her into the cool, free air, and when she turns to her brother there is a wild excitement in the breathy tones of her whisper.

"Where to now, little man?"


Warlight
Soul as sweet as blood red jam