No Time for Lies and Empty Fights
Perhaps Rasta’s inability to talk now in place of her blindness had appeared to him to be more weakness, vulnerability; maybe something that he found an affinity with, or could relate to, having felt like the inadequate son among many much finer. It could even have been that fierce will to protect alone, cloaking a monster frame wrought by a primed muscular system, rippling and swaying beneath the gloss of his sweat-flecked auburn coat. Regardless of the driving force compelling this will to descend upon the wingless duo, Hector sent fist Veci to assess the situation- given the pale palomino was standing in the midst of her own home, and many new faces had filled the ranks through his absence. The Boggart had no understanding of the tongue used by Helovians, he knew only the language of their tight bond; so the fact that his herd-sister was mute seemed trivial- no hint of conversation would be lost in translation.
Few Unicorns had been welcomed amongst the Tuuli in the past, so the sneaking suspicion grew, that she who had no doubt enjoyed the cool, sweet water of the Throat, did not belong.
Veci descended quickly ahead of the stallion, though not without the flicker of frustratingly inevitable trouble. His ghost-like body materialized into the flimsy, hazy form of a bird; a hawk- the one which he had pulled so easily from the conscience of the mute mare. Between sharp wing-strokes, the faux creature slipped between corridors of wind with speed and agility rivalled only by the gust of wild off-shore storms; he slowed though, to offer the presentation of her weakness a little more realism, believability, as he came into view. He had not the power to hold the apparition steady, and so it wavered terribly- fading in and out of her world, like the horrible authenticity of a haunted dream. Undeterred, Veci swooped towards Rasta’s face as it lifted to view the other horned horse by the vast blue lake, and he fluttered in place, teasing and harassing the slim channel of dried tears which spilt down her pallid cheek.
"Veci!" Hector’s irritated voice boomed through their bond to deliver a harsh reprimand into the wraith’s ill-behaved mind- and the illusion was lost; swallowed into the mild curling breeze as it meandered through the oasis.
The soldier could not have known the significance of his bonded’s cruel reproduction; did not understand that perhaps it might have wounded the heart of the mare that he had sworn to defend, beyond reason; without doubt.
Sturdy round hooves collided with the moist, fertile soils of the sanctuary with few gaping strides to collect both balance and speed. So as not to crash into the mare’s who mingled, his landing was a considerate distance from their place, and he drew around his large body with haste to return to them. "Rasta," he called as softly and tenderly as a soldier who had learned to discount the whim of emotion, could. Fiery gaze fell more critically upon the Unicorn as they passed by the blue-white eyes of his herd mate; she was not dusted with the trademark powder of the desert (one who was bound to walk upon the sand, would naturally have been dressed in such if this was her home).
Of course Hector knew that Rasta could neither introduce this filly, or reveal her intent here where the heart of the herd lay, so he spoke again; with reduced tolerance in the tone of his deep, rumbling voice. "What is your name? Why have you trespassed?" Examining eyes narrowed as they roved all about her dwarfed form; the stallion made no effort to relax his height; he stood confidently poised above her- using perhaps a little of the embankment’s elevation, like any warrior would to portray brute strength and power.
Unable to resist the swell of mistrust in his bonded’s mind, Veci returned and the breath of his invisible figure fussed wickedly about the Unicorn intruders face, examining the vibrant green of her eyes for some clue as to what might rattle the young creature’s heart with fear.
[ooc: happy to change anything you guys don't like. I'm sorry rasta D:]
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