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[Titus]

titus

one day it's here and then it's gone,
how are you still holding on?

He had only ever heard about war in stories his father used to tell him. Stories that could never truly capture what war was like. The stories were not even close to what his father had said. Nothing that he had imagined either.

War was a much darker place than he imagined. It was beyond a nightmare. It was not something that simply happened and became a story to be told, but it changed everyone affected by the war. It changed lives for the better or worst.

Titus hopes it will be for the better for him. He can only hope that something so small, like this flower he stares at now, will give him enough courage to make a better future. To make a better future for himself and other future generations too.

The smell of faint smoke and ash continue to fill his nostrils, but the scent of something sweet and lively draws his attention away from the flower just at his hooves. Titus peers through his multi-colored mane where pieces have fallen, covering his face. His nutmeg eyes quickly set on the queen. Quickly, his expression turns into shock. He thought the volcano had taken her all these weeks ago.

She wakes with life. New growth trailing behind her—a bringer of life, a healer of destruction. His shocked expression quickly fades as he realizes she has been slowly healing the land from the war. In her every step she heals the land, working to bring it to what it once was. To something greater—a bright future for them all he hopes.

Titus smiles warmly at her welcome back home. “Thank you, Leliana,” he says, a bit surprised he knows his name, but he assumes Magnus has spoken to Leliana about who he was. It seemed they shared a relationship together when he first saw Magnus on the battlefield to protect Magnus. “I am glad to see you are here.” What else he could say? There was hurt and loss that happened across Tephra and even in Loess. Two places he has called home now. It pains him almost to think about Loess too even if he no longer lives there. It once had been a happy time for him in his life.

He glances to the ground for a moment, noticing how the magma once there is no longer there, but replaced with greenery. “You have been busy it seems,” a smile touches his lips again, “It’s good to see that Tephra is coming back together. It was a lovely sight to see when I first came here.” His nutmeg eyes meet hers again. “I know it will be even better than before,” he adds.

son of rome and porcia
male, classic champagne appaloosa
ocelot-shifting, wings, immortality

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