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    Assailant -- Year 226

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    "But the dream, the echo, slips from him as quickly as he had found it and as consciousness comes to him (a slap and not the gentle waves of oceanic tides), it dissolves entirely. His muscles relax as the cold claims him again, as the numbness sets in, and when his grey eyes open, there’s nothing but the faint after burn of a dream often trod and never remembered." --Brigade, written by Laura


    [open]  i want the world in my hands
    #5
    Beqanna should be sleeping.

    This is the height of winter, the deepest part of it, the oldest part of the year before the new one is reborn. Beqanna should be sleeping. And yet.. she is not. This is the time of year when shadows are cast longest upon their world and so many things fall away. So many things rest and wait. This should be the hush of winter, the waiting lull before the rest of the world wakes again.

    But it seems Beqanna will not rest.
    There is no waiting. Everything moves impatiently forward.

    Lilliana had followed the River again (always the River with her) but there is no laughter from it this day. There is no steady hum of water to distract her today. What thoughts she has are louder than the sound of running water, louder than the roar of any waterfall. She thinks of Elaina who is no longer in Hyaline. She thinks of warnings from the stars. She thinks about all those shades of gray and all those lines that tend to blur together in the tapestry of life.

    The wind stings here, full of that bitter coldness that winter seems to love. The chestnut mare shivers against it and Lilliana arches her neck, trying to draw warmth in on herself. Had she been in Taiga, those imposing trees might have offered her shelter from such a frigid bite. There might be something more in the air, but whatever it is, the chestnut blames it solely on the season she has always detested.

    A bird's cry is able to do what the winter chill cannot. 

    An ear flicks and Lilliana's clouded expression clears to recognition. It's a cry she has heard before. Briefly, she stops and turns her head towards the direction that the sound had come from. 

    The copper mare looks for Aten and instead finds two mare standing against the winter Meadow - a painted bay mare that Lilli doesn't recognize and... Aquaria? It is the presence of the Ischian diplomat that draws her attention (and concern) as she moves forward to the nereid mare and her companion. There is uncertainty that draws a line across Lilliana's face as she surreptitiously studied the raven that adorned Straia's back.

    And then there is Aten, Taiga's champion charging in like a knight of old. Where Lilliana had moved forward with a swinging stride, Aten had come galloping in at the same time she reached the pair of mares. Like him, the chestnut mare had only caught the end of the conversation - of the painted mare asking of Beqanna. 

    Lilliana drew herself near Aquaria as she gave a worried glance at the frost that edged her delicate fins and tail. (What was she doing out here in winter, so far from her tropical home?) Worried enough that she doesn't notice the frozen breathe that no longer dances from her dark nostrils. There is a fleeting message in the glance - in the way she stands - that her fellow diplomat could stand near her for warmth if she needed it. 

    Lilliana dips her head in a slight greeting to her fellow Taigan as Turul settles on his back and listens quietly, contemplatively, as he speaks before turning her attention back to the others.

    The chestnut raises her blue eyes to Straia's and holds off momentarily on an introduction, "When were you last in Beqanna?"

    @[Aquaria] @[Straia] @[Aten]
    but it's all in the past, love
    it's all gone with the wind


    Messages In This Thread
    i want the world in my hands - by Straia - 11-04-2019, 07:33 PM
    RE: i want the world in my hands - by Aquaria - 11-04-2019, 08:13 PM
    RE: i want the world in my hands - by Straia - 11-06-2019, 12:59 PM
    RE: i want the world in my hands - by Aten - 11-07-2019, 03:04 PM
    RE: i want the world in my hands - by lilliana - 11-07-2019, 08:15 PM
    RE: i want the world in my hands - by Popinjay - 11-07-2019, 10:10 PM
    RE: i want the world in my hands - by Aquaria - 11-08-2019, 01:38 PM
    RE: i want the world in my hands - by Straia - 11-08-2019, 08:03 PM
    RE: i want the world in my hands - by Aten - 11-10-2019, 04:57 PM
    RE: i want the world in my hands - by lilliana - 11-12-2019, 09:20 PM
    RE: i want the world in my hands - by Popinjay - 11-16-2019, 10:17 AM



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