i feel a bad moon rising; anyone

[Wolfbane]

WOLFBANE

He could hardly believe it; Lepis’s smell fresh and very present in Loess, exactly where she shouldn’t be given his recent meeting with Queen Kagerus. There it was though, all the same, lingering over rock and bush, seeping into the nectar of the countless flora and leading him directly to an area the Lord of Loess had come to associate with his Cleric. The gentle hush over his territory belies the otherwise tense changes surrounding them, both to the north and southeast, giving Bane the opportunity to quietly gather his thoughts while keeping a steady, clipped tempo as he clop, clops over the rough-hewn trail.

“You’re back, then?” The striped pegasus calls out to her, rounding the bend with an amazed expression to one-up her curious glance, “I thought …” He mutters, shaking the stark white mane rigid atop his neck before coming to a decided halt at the lip of her private pool.

“Doesn’t matter what I think.” He finds himself saying instead, an incredulous grin twisting the blue-black shape of his lips, dawn casting a yellow-gold hue over them both. “You’re here, that’s what matters.”

Instinctually his gaze (darkened to a brooding, flat gray from the lack of light) flickers over her exposed body, searching for a hint of blood or any sign that her stay in Hyaline might have come to blows while Kagerus' talk of “pain-in-the-ass” rings fresh in his mind. As daring as it looked, Wolfbane wouldn’t be satiated until he was sure that his adviser was whole and unhurt. “Talk to me - I’m a mess. Help me understand what happened.” The brutish stallion begins, content for now to stand protectively above where she relaxes in a hazy cloud of steam.

|| The Pirate Lord of Loess ||

@[Lepis] has some essplanin' to do xD