little lamb [open]

little lamb [open]

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08-11-2012, 07:14 AM

Unicorn | Stallion | Ten | 14.0 hands

It had been a mistake going back to Isilme, but there had been a driving force behind Ned leaving Helovia's safety and charging back into the embrace of a war torn land. It was that colt, Jackal, Silverline's colt, that had been the driving force. Having to admit to the colt that he hadn't known if his parents had made it out of Isilme had nearly broken him. The look on the child's face upon hearing that there was no news of his parents survival or death had haunted Ned. It drove him to search for answers.

In the end all he was met with were bloated, rotting corpses and hoards of shades waiting for fresh meat. He didn't remember how he had gotten past them in the gateway, but he made it all the way to the Tides where he searched for Silverline and Aerwen. The sheer amount of bodies should have stunned him, but he was a veteran of war. He had seen similar in Vanthra and he had killed in far more gruesome ways than the shades had. He never did find Silverline or Aerwen's bodies. There was no trace of their deaths, but neither was there trace of the pair's survival. The shades forced Ned out of Isilme once more, their razor sharp bodies adding to the multitude of cuts and scars that already adorned his body.

Now he stood in Helovia's Threshold, his white coat caked with blood from the many cuts the shades had left him with. His left shoulder ached and throbbed with overuse. It had been many years since it had been sliced open, the muscle parting nearly to the bone. It had healed, but not properly and while it usually did not bother him it did now. He knew it was because of the running he'd done in Isilme to stay ahead of the shades and the running he'd done to escape. It left him weary, but he never had been one to give in to weariness or aches and pains.

There was a limp to his walk, but Ned pressed on, leaving Isilme along with Sliverline and Aerwen's fates behind him. He had no answers for the colt once again, but it was something they would both have to live with.