[open] Garden of Lucid Dreams

[avocet]

What Avocet remembers of his own childhood is hazy, like the rumored woods of misty Taiga; eerie like the silence in Silver Cove. He had been born in the Pampas, into a world full of color, and yet what he actually remembers is fairly dim. It's because I've been away from Manikin so long, the bay stallion thought.

It was always his sister who was reminding Avocet what he forgot; it was only her who was able to give him clarity where it regarded their shared past.

Huglava tried, as best as a frog could. He croaked when they veered too far off their course (remember, he would ribbet, remember we are on a quest of honor). They were trying to find Carnage, trying to find some way to restore what he had taken from Manny in the Afterlife (but was what it? What had Carnage taken from his sister?)

Eventually, Avocet's manipulated memories warped with the real ones and created a state of existence where the wandering stallion didn't even know what world he was in. Amongst the jumbled things that Avo had remembered, he had found the Dark One. That was how he had ended at the bottom of the ocean, hadn't it? (All that he remembers is the cool and the dark, they are the only things that touch his mind as he attempts to remember how he ended up here, wherever this was.)

He's trying to figure that out when the oversized amphibian spots something of interest. A mare who seems at home in this place. It's a place to start, the stern frog croaks back to his bonded as his elastic tongue snagged a fly that buzzed past. Avocet remained in the shade, unsure, still trying to piece his thoughts back together. He gave a slight shake of his brown head that was disregarded by the frog that hopped away.

"Sir Huglava!" Avocet called out, lowering his head to the ground and moving off into a trot, attempting to herd the amphibian away from the young mare. But the monk had been on a mission, determined to get back to the Mainland and his beloved volcano where the Great Amphibian rested. 

Excuse me, my lady. Huglava ribbeted to her as he jumped forward, straightening his spotted shoulders as he came to a stop before her icy hooves, where her mouth had reached down for the tender grass. We seem to have lost our way and require assistance to the mainland. He contemplated complimenting her on her obvious youth and beauty before Avocet snorted, coming up behind his companion.

"It's rude to interrupt someone while they eat, Huglava." He says, like a chivalrous knight should know better.

@Ehko