10-22-2019, 10:27 AM
Hooves are always muffled on the soft forest floor, but Lepis’ navy ears swivel back at the sound of someone’s arrival. Too heavy to be either of her children, she knows, and a deep breath catches the familiar scent of Izora Lethia just as the dun mare looks up to see who it might be. She smiles, but it is a brief, weak thing, and the muzzle that she stretches out in greeting is hesitant.
Does she deserve friendship, even? After what she has done? Surely she is as capable of wounding the other mare – perhaps even more so. Just to be certain, she reaches for her magic, and finds nothing. A solid wall. Lepis sighs, unsure if its absence is reassuring or concerning, and realizes that she has left her companion’s question hanging on overlong.
“Everything is falling apart, Lethy.” She says, unable to hold the other mare’s violet gaze as she says it, and instead looking back down at her reflection. “And it’s my fault.” The first time she admitted that to herself, it had hurt, but it had hurt less so the second, and the third. Aloud is a different thing entirely, she finds, and though the words came easy the guilt that comes after pulls hard. “I just wanted…I just wanted everyone to be safe.”
Does she deserve friendship, even? After what she has done? Surely she is as capable of wounding the other mare – perhaps even more so. Just to be certain, she reaches for her magic, and finds nothing. A solid wall. Lepis sighs, unsure if its absence is reassuring or concerning, and realizes that she has left her companion’s question hanging on overlong.
“Everything is falling apart, Lethy.” She says, unable to hold the other mare’s violet gaze as she says it, and instead looking back down at her reflection. “And it’s my fault.” The first time she admitted that to herself, it had hurt, but it had hurt less so the second, and the third. Aloud is a different thing entirely, she finds, and though the words came easy the guilt that comes after pulls hard. “I just wanted…I just wanted everyone to be safe.”
