[open] let the sky fall - anyone

[Heloise]

h e l o i s e Heloise was still somewhat disoriented when the mare approached.  She was familiarizing herself with this body, shifting her weight between her four legs and adjusting to the limitations of equine vision. Both her ears and her gaze snaps forward as the reptile mare speaks.  The simple, innocuous words light a fire in the avian mare - one that’s been smoldering ever since she realized where her wings were bringing her. “Well, aren’t you perceptive!”  She bites, slightly perturbed at how her breath was visible as she spoke.  Heloise wasn’t one to mince words, and an array of responses crawled up her throat but she did her best to swallow them back. Self control had never been one of her strong suits. It was part of the reason that she’d decided to abandon Beqanna in her youth.  She had no connection to her family - she’d been an experiment of sorts.  Neither successful or a failure, she’d bee cast aside all the same.  The avian mare gritted her teeth before responding to her reptilian counterpart. “Trust me, I have plenty of better places to be,” she said, in a huff. She was more angry at the whole ass situation than at anything, but she didn’t particularly want to waste her breath explaining the situation. Her demons were no one’s business but her own.  Heloise was always quick to deflect with her sharp tongue than have to, you know, deal with things.  She still felt compelled to say something more, however. “But you can only live as a bird for so long until you’re overwhelmed with the need to migrate home, apparently,” she added, with a dramatic roll of her eyes. “So here I am!” she said with mock enthusiasm wrapped up in a snuggly blanket of sarcasm.  She extended her blue wings wide to really sell the enthusiasm before the cold wind had her snapping to her sides just as quickly. She took the ensuing moment to drag her gaze away from the scaled mare. The meadow looked as she remembered it, having spent the early days of her childhood in the area. But Beqanna had changed in a way she couldn’t understand. “What the hell happened to this place anyway?” she asked, offhandedly, assuming that the reptile-mare would know what she was talking about.   image credit

@[adna]