Ciri
It’s not Padme’s fault, these little stabs to her heart as she touches her child, cautiously protecting her, little acts of love in each touch and caress. All those little moments that had been stolen from her when that portal had opened up beneath her, when she had been taken from her son and Amet and everything and everyone she cared about. There was a reason, that stars didn’t even have to soothe her with that knowledge. She knew that there was a reason for every single thing that had happened up to this point. Even if she still couldn’t make sense of it or figure out the ultimate goal of it all. Fate couldn’t be that cruel without a reason right?
The mare is guarded but relaxes slightly towards her and Ciri does the same. Letting go just enough to be unthreatening towards them but cautious to their surroundings. Curved ears constantly swivel, listening for what could be left behind from the banished darkness. The mare chuckles and smiles and she can’t help to respond in the same fashion as she takes a few steps closer to them, now that she was allowed. Her eyes travel back to Padme’s scars before looking back to her face. “Seems like the smart response all things considered.” A slight roll to her own clawed shoulder, an acknowledgment that sometimes it's the better choice to run than to fight.
Padme and Mourna. The softness that lingers around the babies name brings that sharp pang again but her smile doesn’t waver and her own swirling gaze softens slightly as she looks down at the filly. “I’m Ciri. It’s nice to meet you both.” The girl is beautiful and perhaps if it had been a little colt instead she might have broken down, her mask slipping. It’s easier to not see the face of her son in the crimson baby. It’s easier to ignore the memories. “Have you been living out here, during the dark times?” She’s curious to what it was like for everyone, how bad it had been. She had only been returned to these lands on the tail end of the Eclipse, enough to be blasted with light and then gifted with the twirling orbs around her. They seem to greedily soak up the sunlight, their stardust would be all the more glittery and brighter once night fell again. The reminder that regardless of it all, she was never alone. Not really.
all of time and space, everywhere and anywhere, every star that ever was
@[Padme] <3333