04-12-2021, 04:17 PM
It took Yanhua a second or two to start connecting the dots once Leilan started talking. The ‘we’ his King was speaking about happened to be Yanhua’s family: Amarine & co. That made the beginning part about ‘being away’ clear, but it didn’t exactly go into detail about why Yanhua’s family had decided to go away from Taiga in the first place, or how they all ended up on the beach. To boot, his immortal dam Lilli and apparently both of his daughters had gone missing as well.
Leilan’s concern, however, was on the matter of succession.
“We talked about it.” The more slender of the two stallions offered slowly, a bit stunned in the wake of such a heavy avalanche of news. He blinked expressively, taking his time to hold both eyes closed before they fluttered wide open again in shock. Scorching winds of hell, Yanhua was glad Leilan was giving him a quiet moment to soak this all in. “Are you looking for them?” He spat out eventually, meaning his daughters and of course Lilliana as well.
He only asked it of the dragon King because according to him, Leilan apparently knew where to start: The Beach. “A place where souls go to rest.” Yan thought darkly, wondering what Leilan’s version of ‘missing’ really meant.
He and Borderline had only just returned home themselves, which meant that the others had left Taiga sometime shortly after Yan and his greenskeeper wife left the forest herdland. “What could have possessed them to do such a thing?” The bearded chestnut thought crossly, both ears jerking back to betray his frustration. “If Lilli is only missing should we be jumping to conclusions?!” He asked, fearing the worst. Leilan wouldn’t have come otherwise.
YANHUA
@[Leilan]