Things had been quiet in the redwoods. Too quiet. In the time she had spent entangled with Tunnel, much had seemed to happen in her new home. A child was stolen and Yan was missing. It was as if he had wandered into a spot of the forest that nobody else could access, as if the trees had swallowed him whole. Taiga felt more and more empty and with a sigh she finally makes a decision to explore further and see what else Beqanna has to offer. It’s not that she’s given up on Taiga, no not quite. Although she hadn’t called the place home long enough to instill a sense of deep loyalty to the woods, she cares for the forest and some of its residents. However she does wonder what else is out there for her. Her mind drifts often to the dark blue and black stallion with his intense gray eyes and sometimes of Molech in the river. She thinks of her mother still hidden deep within Tephra and the disturbing news coming from the East. She thinks of the lost brother Tantalize had mentioned.
With nothing else to do, she sets off to find him.
Perhaps she might find Yanhua too along the way, in case he had wandered off further than the redwoods.
She doesn’t have much to go on. He was born in Tephra, Tantalize was his mother. She doesn’t even known what he looks like but when she questions a few strangers along the way, she mentions he may have gold or red eyes. They seemed to run in the family and maybe she will get lucky. There’s a few red and gold eyed stallions it seems and nobody seems to know if they were born in Tephra or remember a mare named Tantalize. But she takes every lead and follows it. She starts in the Meadow and comes up empty handed, not seeing a single red or gold eye amongst the small crowds huddled together. She thinks for a moment of swinging by the Forest but decides now is not the best time for a distraction.
Loess is close though and perhaps that was a good place to start. The kingdom was known to be relatively busy even during these quiet times in Beqanna. So she sets off for the red cliffs of Loess with purpose in her belly and determination in the dark gold of her eyes. When she finally comes to a standstill at the invisible border of the kingdom, her buttery coat is covered in a fine layer of red dust that seems to cover her everywhere except where it avoids the vibrant and scented flowers in her dark tangled mane. It is her hope that if she can find him, she might be able to lure Liz from her hermit jungle life. That perhaps it’s not too late to get some sense of family after all this time. That might be nice, she thinks. So she sends a call into the canyons and waits patiently to be received, hoping she might find some answers here or at least a new lead to follow.
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