you could break my heart in two, but when it heals, it beats for you
She grieves a little for those last days of their young adulthood before the twists and trials that made them who they are now. In many ways she is still the same as the girl who waded into the lake to meet Litotes, still confident and at home with who she is. It is lucky she has not lost herself in the troublesome years. He will never come home to her here, even though it is the Cove she feels repulsed by his pain is tied to the land she so loves and so they will be always a little divided.
Lie nips at her, his eyes roving after the children napping in their meadow. She knows what he is about before his teeth can even touch the curve of her rump and she squeals and bucks at the kiss of his teeth before barreling after him down the hillside. It is a track she knows well and she has always been nimble, though perhaps one day she'll come to her end racing down one of these mountain sides. Quickly she catches up to Litotes, recklessly snapping at his creamy side before thundering along beside him. Kensa’s hooves slide as she turns for the lake, bursting from among the hardwood and pines and out onto the green expanse between the two of them and the clear water.
Kensa splashes into the pebble-strewn shallows, rearing up with her fore limbs tucked close before dropping again. Always she is reaching for Lie but today it is with playfully snapping teeth, pawing the water beneath her feet into great wet arcs. She presses close, grabbing his mane at the crest of his neck roughly before releasing him to trail a laughing string of kisses up beneath his jaw line. “Here we are darling, it’s been too long since we’ve had a swim.”
Kensa
@[litotes]
