05-06-2020, 10:43 PM
Elio is quiet as he leads Lethia to the clearing by the river. His mind is still, calm, easily aided by his own emotion magic. There is a somberness to his peace, as if he is truly mourning that their decisions must come to blows. He fights the urge to look back at the mare, to ask her one more time if they could come to some other compromise.
But he knows in his heart that they have made their decisions about him. That no matter what he does for Taiga while Champion, or how much they claim to be friends with his mother, they have all decided the Lepanes are not worthy of the land. He especially finds his sympathy lacking when he realizes how backwards it is to claim to his face how Lethy loves Lepis and then in the same breath say she cannot trust Elio because of Lepis.
Now, Elio does feel a bit of anger, like the day he encountered Celina and Wolfbane: righteous. To be cast out of the land he was born in simply because of his mother, pah. They were all once strangers to Taiga, but Lio never was. This land is his heart.
"Here," the golden man says, coming to a slow halt and tucking his wings close to his sides. The land that stretches before them is covered in pine straw and malleable clay. A large rock bulges straight ahead of where the pair stands, at the very opposite side of the clearing. Their space is oval-shaped, about eight hundred feet wide at its longest and five hundred feet wide at its shortest. It's late evening, and the sky above is clear and blue - not a cloud in sight.
Elio turns to peer calmly at his opponent, and then steps onto the battlefield.
Elio is challenging Izora Lethia for the leadership of Taiga.
The terms:
If Elio wins, Izora Lethia and Lilliana must step down, and Elio will take the crown.
Battle to be held in Taiga, in the clearing mentioned above.
Three days between posts.
1000 words or less for each post.
3 attacks.
Izora Lethia will go first.
Elio's stats:
16hh
Warmblood build
Self-healing, invisibility, wings, empathic projection
But he knows in his heart that they have made their decisions about him. That no matter what he does for Taiga while Champion, or how much they claim to be friends with his mother, they have all decided the Lepanes are not worthy of the land. He especially finds his sympathy lacking when he realizes how backwards it is to claim to his face how Lethy loves Lepis and then in the same breath say she cannot trust Elio because of Lepis.
Now, Elio does feel a bit of anger, like the day he encountered Celina and Wolfbane: righteous. To be cast out of the land he was born in simply because of his mother, pah. They were all once strangers to Taiga, but Lio never was. This land is his heart.
"Here," the golden man says, coming to a slow halt and tucking his wings close to his sides. The land that stretches before them is covered in pine straw and malleable clay. A large rock bulges straight ahead of where the pair stands, at the very opposite side of the clearing. Their space is oval-shaped, about eight hundred feet wide at its longest and five hundred feet wide at its shortest. It's late evening, and the sky above is clear and blue - not a cloud in sight.
Elio turns to peer calmly at his opponent, and then steps onto the battlefield.
Elio is challenging Izora Lethia for the leadership of Taiga.
The terms:
If Elio wins, Izora Lethia and Lilliana must step down, and Elio will take the crown.
Battle to be held in Taiga, in the clearing mentioned above.
Three days between posts.
1000 words or less for each post.
3 attacks.
Izora Lethia will go first.
Elio's stats:
16hh
Warmblood build
Self-healing, invisibility, wings, empathic projection
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