10-30-2020, 09:43 PM
He can feel the weight of it crushing his chest. The knowing that something is horribly wrong and that he is powerless to do anything about it. With a tightening in his jaw, the waiting stallion turned his gaze to their sleeping children. Dim mound of shadow that emitted breathy sighs as they dreamed.
Her words were cryptic. A warning coming from the mare who so often preferred to be direct, in words and actions. That was what lead them here, wasn't it? Trepidation creased his brow when he swung his head back to observe the bone crowned woman. She was as beautiful as he'd ever seen her, whole and hale when for so long she had been a fragment of herself. It was a relief to see her this way again. It did not make her suffering any more logical though.
"Say what you mean," he grumbled. He'd not been happy about her decision to quest the Dark God to begin with. But it had been her risk to take, and he couldn't hold her back from her desire to be more, even if he thought and defended how she was wonderful the way she was. She'd gone anyway. She'd paid the price. And now she was telling him there was more.
@[Warlight]
Her words were cryptic. A warning coming from the mare who so often preferred to be direct, in words and actions. That was what lead them here, wasn't it? Trepidation creased his brow when he swung his head back to observe the bone crowned woman. She was as beautiful as he'd ever seen her, whole and hale when for so long she had been a fragment of herself. It was a relief to see her this way again. It did not make her suffering any more logical though.
"Say what you mean," he grumbled. He'd not been happy about her decision to quest the Dark God to begin with. But it had been her risk to take, and he couldn't hold her back from her desire to be more, even if he thought and defended how she was wonderful the way she was. She'd gone anyway. She'd paid the price. And now she was telling him there was more.
@[Warlight]