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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


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    WOLFBANE

    Taiga was his home, now. Wolfbane slowly began to mold himself to her darker, more secretive places. He sometimes frequented the woods as a large buck or soared above the evergreen boughs as a golden eagle. When the beach seemed inviting he slipped beneath the waves as a thick, long-toothed beachmaster seal. In part he’d been avoiding the one horse who needed him most right now, because he can’t seem to be the rock Lepis so desperately longed for. He went against her, went against them and coming to terms with that fact required lonely contemplation. She deserved so much more: as his wife and friend, and as the mother of their ever-growing brood.

    But duty trumped feeling, especially when the familiar smell of their long-time friend Noah pierced the otherwise common smells of the residents here.

    Turning away from his view of the open meadow, Wolfbane angled a narrow head and twisted his thick, dappled brown neck to get a better sense of where the cherry-red roan and his wife were congregating. He was a buck, currently: well-muscled and its prime, sporting a handsome rack that’d sprung out into a wide crown of bony spikes. His wet nose quivered, the only action of movement on his otherwise still and contemplative face aside from the rotating flick of his ears. Pinpointing the two mares, Bane sprung up and away from the calm shores of a pond at the center of their redwoods and bounded through the woods on agile, slender legs, tail high and his spirits as well.

    The thrill of seeing Noah, even of seeing his wife (regardless of their latest interaction) gave him reason to hope.

    Mid-stride he shifted, changing the neutral browns and white belly to his regular gold and viciously beautiful blue stripes. His glorious crown of horns sunk back into his head, replaced by the growth of an upright mane that tufted out full and white, rising up from the center of his poll and extending down along his spine before it blended into the white strands of his busy tail. He slowed approaching them, choosing a cheerfully high-stepping trot that led him over and through the tangled mess of wild brush near the border of Taiga, smiling to see the two mares embrace for a moment until he spoke, “Noah!”

    There was a crunch of twigs and the faint sound of his tail slapping against his shimmering hide, and then Bane was present in their group, taking the open spot alongside Lepis with careful consideration. His wings - both renowned for their length and purity of color - are gone; he found it easier to travel swiftly over ground without them. But the exposed skin of his shoulder shivered pleasantly when he touched it briefly to the bent wing of his only mate.

    He turned to look at her; to look at Lepis.
    Pain, brief but sharp, flashed in his eyes.

    “I sense something,” He admitted, glancing between both females with a half-enthused smile. The upwards tilt of his mouth lowered a second later, “Do I smell that terrible?” The stallion did his best to avoid the obvious.

    Commandant of Taiga // Champion of Loess



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    Messages In This Thread
    that's all there is; - by Noah - 11-05-2019, 09:41 PM
    RE: that's all there is; - by Lepis - 11-05-2019, 11:09 PM
    RE: that's all there is; - by Noah - 11-07-2019, 11:11 PM
    RE: that's all there is; - by Wolfbane - 11-08-2019, 12:13 AM
    RE: that's all there is; - by Lepis - 11-08-2019, 05:22 PM
    RE: that's all there is; - by Noah - 11-16-2019, 09:31 PM



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