[private] I won’t, this time - Lepis

[Lepis]

staring at the ceiling in the dark same old empty feeling in your heart Lepis stepped down from a position of power and the world immediately descended into chaos. There is a causal relationship between the two, the former queen is quite certain. That she is meant for more in life than her current position Lepis is equally sure. Beqanna needs Lepis to remain in balance; it is as simple as that. Fragile self-esteem resulting from trauma in her late adolescence had kept her from accepting that, followed by a stillborn child, a divorce, and then by the shattering of her home by the Plague, the loss of Gale, and the betrayal and subsequent loss of her husband. Now though, with the latter half of her life ahead of her and ever-shrinking personal responsibility, the dun mare is finally free to assume what she’s been working toward since the moment she was born. For the most part, that means strengthening Loess, and keeping it moving forward while she bides her time and builds a firm base. The King is not an old man, and though he has had a long reign it has also been a strong one. In the coming days, when thieves stalk through the night, she will be less sure of this. For now though, she is able to listen to Ilma’s warnings with little more reaction than her flicking ears and a minute widening of her blue-grey eyes. If she were not so fond of Oceane, Lepis would have scoffed. Of course the man is going to give his lover a kingdom. What a typical stallion sort of thing to do. The rest she takes in equally silently, even the mention of the newborn Alcinder, the mystery of where exactly Oceane will be in this theoretical future, and a cryptic warning of the King leaving without warning. What does that even mean, Lepis wonders? Its not like the monarch alerts his Cleric each time he departs the Red Kingdom. She will understand more in the days to come, but this afternoon she feels as though she has been handed a tangled knot of mystery messages with no place to put them.  “We’ll have to hope his dragon does not grow too strong then,” the pegasus replies. Ilma herself had said that her gift was not a perfect one, that there are things that can change her sense of the future. Lepis very much hopes that this is one of those times, but nevertheless begins to make plans for the possibility that it is not. @[Ilma] LEPIS staring at the bottom of your glass-- hoping one day you’ll make a dream last but dreams come slow and they go so fast

no pressure to reply to this; maybe this could be the end of this thread and then they can possibly catch up later on in a more current timeline?