Sometimes we don't learn from our mistakes
_{Sometimes we've no choice, but to walk away}

Evers took a moment to catch his breath. The long path up to the fields was not an easy one, especially when you were as skinny and malnourished as he was. It was a magnificent place full of beauty and elegance, it almost seemed untouched by the worlds troubles, simply continuing onwards as nature intended. It brought both joy and pain to the eyes of Evers, the last time he was here was the instigation of all the trouble to come later, many times he would revisit this memory and think of better words. Speak of friendship instead of love, perhaps then he wouldn't have scared her off, wouldn't have hurt her like he had, unknowingly. The blue had never experienced love before, or at least, that was what he originally thought. A mind long in hibernation was slowly waking up and stirring memories of a younger self, more happy with a mare and... A foal. A daughter. Gone.

He squeezed his eyes shut. The blue didn't understand these flashbacks, Mandrake was gone, who now could he ask? Did Archibald know what they meant? Surely not, he was just a boy in terms of age to Evers. Unless he was told by his mother... The roan snorted and moved off towards the stream, pushing thoughts of dead lovers and children out of his mind with excruciating pain. Mandrake was gone, it was supposed to be a new freedom, instead he felt like someone was choking him from the inside and robbed him of any means to stop it. He didn't want to feel like this, never once had he asked for this, but perhaps this was punishment for all his previous sins. There were a lot of them after all.

Evers waited. For once he was expecting company, Rita was no longer by his side and instead she was poking around near the Windtossed Foothills, looking for Irrydae. He could not contact his beautiful hound at such a distance, their mental speech was not yet that brilliant. Instead he trusted the bitch to return to him like she always had. It was time to settle things with Irrydae, but what Evers was unsure about, was the direction in which it should be settled.

( @[Irrydae] paddeh has permission to power play Rita!)