One more home. She knew the routine well. Edge to Threshold, find friend, Threshold to Edge, welcome to Edge. All-in-all, it wasn't too bad. She actually like the work. It gave her something to do when she would otherwise have nothing. And it was always better for the silly girl to stay active, because otherwise she ended up wandering around the Edge and blabbering everyone's ear off about nonsense they probably didn't give one care about. Except Res. Resplendence would always listen to her, no matter what sort of craziness she wanted to talk about. That was why Resplendence was her best friend. Forever.

Of course, the same sort of thing she usually avoided doing to her herdmates, she was now doing to poor Fig. Having stopped by the river on their way by, Kahlua was now gaily chatting away about every sort of nonsense imaginable. The time she tripped over that rock, the time she met so-and-so over just past that tree, about the Qian and their search for peace, about Mirage and Lace, about Kaj (was there a little something extra behind her tone when she talked of the warrior stallion?). All this, assuming that little Fig hadn't stopped her by now, or walked away from pure frustration at the whole thing.

But, in time, and probably to the delight of Fig's ears, the glass wall came into view, and Kahlua's chattering stopped as she started to smile. “This is our border!” she offered brightly, turning to try and catch the eye of the tree-filly that she was becoming reasonably more comfortable with by the moment. “I made the wall,” she said matter-of-factly. “Do you like it?!” Perhaps she was bragging a little, but it was more like excitement at the whole thing. Every memory she had of it, even the moments when she thought her body might drop of pure exhaustion, were happy ones. She had served her herd well, and they repaid her kindnesses that she could not imagine.

All the while, she continued moving towards the little slit in the doorway that would let her in, from outside to inside, to welcome this darling little Fig into the Edge, to meet the trees they had spoken of. Not that there was any lack of trees outside the border.

@[Fig]- I tried really hard to be Australian for two seconds with my title <3 <3 <3

Kahlua