[open] you say you want your freedom, any

[starlore]

( this world will have the wolves outside your door
make you leave all that you love to fight a war
and never tell you what you're dying for )

There are few children in the Cove. As far as he can tell, he and Stargaze are the only ones at the moment. The viper had been pregnant and there had been a baby draped in galaxies but she had disappeared almost as quickly as she had appeared, which had struck the colt as odd but something had told him that he was better off not knowing what had happened to her. 

Perhaps it’s loneliness that makes him so eager to trust this spotted filly who’d turned up by accident. Stargaze could only entertain him so much before she became irritable and anything beyond that was not really entertaining for either of them. 

The evil her father had warned her about in the Cove certainly existed and warranted caution, Starlore could attest to that, but there were exceptions to the rule. Starlore being one of them. 

He glances back in the direction she gestures, though he can make out nothing in darkness, so he just rolls his shoulder. He trusts that it’s there, even if he’s never seen it. He doesn’t know what redwoods are either but if she says they’re there, he believes that, too. “Sounds nice,” he says, which is just something to say because he doesn’t really know what it sounds like. He’s just a boy and most of what he knows is the sea and the mountains that surround it. 

He trots through the grass, careful not to outpace her as they approach the lake. “Yeah, I’ve always lived here,” he answers, nodding. “It’s a pretty nice place, even though the lady that runs it is kinda mean.” He rolls his shoulders and snorts out a kind of laugh. “I’ll probably move away when I’m older. Do you like Taiga?” 

starlore

@[Cheri]