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06-25-2014, 11:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-25-2014, 11:32 PM by Evangeline.)
 She had known that a herd meeting would be called especially after the recent events that had transpired. That was the reason why Evangeline had stuck close to the Edge rather than venture off to explore more of her new home. Home. It still felt strange referring to Helovia as home but as the days and weeks wore on she felt more and more comfortable. Her ears twitched at the far off sound of someone's voice. Tallis, who had much sharper hearing than she did, chirped and landed upon his bonded's back. 'Silly Queen call for herd.' He said. 'We go now.' The orange mare nodded her head in agreement with Tallis. The dragon took to the air and his bonded followed behind him at a slow trot. When they got to the meeting there were already a few of the herd members gathered around, some of them Evangeline knew, but most of them were strangers to her. She had hoped to slip in unnoticed but it seemed as if Kahlua had been waiting for her. No sooner had Evangeline made herself comfortable her name was being called. The mare's ears tilted forward and she walked toward Kahlua, her eyes on the feather that the Queen claimed came from the Moon Goddess herself. "Thank you." She murmured. The mare reached out to take the feather but Tallis beat her to it. He swooped down and grabbed the feather in his claws then circled around and landed roughly on Evangeline's back, immediately setting to work tying the feather into his bonded's mane. Evangeline turned to walk back to where she had been standing, but Ruske caught her eye. She smiled at her friend and headed in his direction, content to sit through the rest of the meeting standing beside him. As she came to stand next to Ruske she touched her muzzle to his shoulder then took notice of the small child standing beside him. 'Weird.' Tallis said as he, too, peeked down. 'He find it?' "Good question." Eva said in response, but it was something that could be discussed later and not in a public setting. The tone of the meeting shifted to Aurelia, whom Evangeline had already known about after talking to Kaj, and alliances with other herds. Others began to speak up, two calling for banishment and countless others (including Ruske) calling for a trial. Another, smaller voice, speaks up and Eva's attention is drawn to the little filly that calls Ruske daddy. She, too, called for the mare, her mother who abandoned her, to be banished. 'Banish.' Tallis echoed the two militaristic mares and the child. "How do you propose to get the truth if you put her on trial?" The mare asked, rather than pass judgement. "Anyone wanting to save their own skin is going to lie. If you cannot fully trust the words of the herd that returned her here how can you trust her's? She was the one that was supposedly in the wrong, wouldn't it be natural for her to stretch the truth?" As she spoke Tallis moved from her back to sit on Ruske's. "I would like to propose my own questions. How many of us are there that would trust her should she be allowed to stay after her trial? And lets say she does stay and we still don't trust her. Should we have to live here knowing that there is someone among us that we cannot trust to not be a threat us? Aren't there enough threats outside of our walls? Should we have to live with one within them?" She, however, would remain silent about Aurelia's challenge to Kahlua but she couldn't help but wonder what the younger mare had been thinking. If she couldn't be a competent wise one what in the world made her think she could make a half competent leader? Her gaze turned to Ruske when he spoke up about peace and offering trust to the Aurora Basin unicorns. She did agree with him, but she also agreed with the newly named captain that it could be a ruse to weaken their defenses. She found herself leaning toward agreeing with Resplendence on her stance on the Asylum, though she had not been there to see the full exchange herself. "In the end no herd can survive in complete isolation. With no allies we would have no one to come to our defense should we need it. It is beneficial to us to have at least one ally. Perhaps we could offer our alliance to the Falls as a token of good faith. To show that we, as a herd, have no ill will against them. With that said, I would like to volunteer to travel to the Falls to discuss peace with them." "." |
