Tangerine
In the middle of the night, I go walking in my sleep
Her heartwrenching conversation with Amet was behind her.
After they had parted Tang had felt something close to giddiness, she had felt freed by his understanding, and now she was one step closer to her homeward journey. Riding her high she had decided to leave for Tephra, with Celest, that same day. She would stop in the volcanic land for a week or two at most before returning to her her ancestral homeland, and the familiar excitement she always felt before a new adventure had coursed through her body.
But Celest, her tigress of a daughter, had other plans. The girl refused to leave Beqanna. The seafoam filly had slowed them, refusing to start the journey with her mother and halting any progress Tang had dreamed of making. The painted mare had never been a strict disciplinarian and now found, when the time came for her to demand her daughter's cooperation, that she was outmatched. So they had stalled, somewhere in the eastern reaches of the riverland with Celest refusing to leave and Tang refusing to leave her behind.
It is a new day, and when Tang had awoken mid-morning she had found that her daughter was gone - but this wasn't unusual, as the girl often went exploring on her own for long stretches of time. So, the mare continued with her morning of grazing knowing Celest would be back when she was hungry.
But as Tang hears he name called in a vaguely familiar voice she quickly turns towards the sound with eyes widened in surprise. The flash of panic she feels at seeing a wolf passes quickly as she recognizes the form of one of Hyaline's residents. Blowing a puff of air from her nostrils and giving a shake of her head, she smiles at the she-wolf who had been present at Celest's birth.
"I was never able to thank you, for being there during Celest's birth." she suppresses the anxiety which rises in her chest at the memory of that spring with a deep breath. Carnage's brand had still been weeping on her neck then, but now it has healed into a pale spiral scar. "It was a difficult time, and the support meant a lot."
Her voice takes on a concerned tone as she glances beyond the wolf to see if she is alone, "is everything alright in Hyaline?"
@[Circinae]