Plans you’ve played a part in have been set in motion. You’ve spent months and seasons working on them. Plans that will not necessarily benefit you, but plans that will benefit her. ELSA. She will be queen. Honestly, you’re proud of yourself for having thought of it. You’ve wanted chaos now for some time, but some small sliver of honor in your soul has prevented you from needless retaliation against a man that you might slightly respect. But then you thought of this other idea and it was absolutely brilliant. If Hotaru wants to be queen, let her. Just let Elsa be queen beside her. As for you? You’re pretty content in your cushy position. You get all the perks and respect that comes with being a council member, without any of the work and responsibility that comes with being a leader. After all, you’ve successfully managed to do almost nothing as Legatus thus far. You think you’d like to keep up that impressive streak.

Munching on one of the few locoweed vines you have left, you look to the setting sun. You were told the attack would come on an evening in early orangemoon. Here it is, autumn, trees turning, air growing cooler, and so you wait. Inwardly, you itch to leave, to head to the ocean and to refill your drug stock. For once, you are able to control your urges… barely. You must be vigilant tonight, watching for the arrival of those you should call enemy but who are really your allies. You’re lucky you wait. As you look down from one of the higher vantage points in the Falls, you see a hoard of horses approaching in various battalions. Surely this must be your cue.

Wandering down towards the borders, sneaking through the forest as much as your lumbering body will allow, you arrive at one of the more secluded entrances to the Falls. Some stallion’s booming voice calls out, followed by the sounds of one or two others; it is time. You hope that the dusky air will have helped to hide your travels through the Falls, but you are not hopeful. If there is one thing your body is, it is obvious. This plan to sneak some others through a back way will only help for a minute, and in many ways you think it’s rather useless, but you didn’t do the planning. Sneaking into the open, you successfully catch the attention of OPEHLIA and her crew, leading them back through into this place that you have called home. Now it is only a target, nothing more than something to be destroyed.

You say nothing to them, caring little for what they feel or say themselves. Instead, you turn away, mind hazy with drugs and trying to process where you think ELSA might be. The possibilities are endless, but you are confident in your abilities to find her creamy white body. Perhaps you should not be. Heaving your body into a heavy canter, you lift your head high, screaming out with your gravely whinny, hoping she will hear you and come, knowing that you need her. You have to find her and tell her not to fight back, but instead to take the children and go somewhere safe. She has to let the invaders in, though it seems counter-intuitive, and let them do what they have come to do. She has to so that she can be made queen and get the recognition that she deserves.

As you search, always coming up empty hooved, you begin to grow more anxious and agitated. There are so many bodies rushing into the forest. What if they find her first? What if they attack her? What if she gets hurt, and you aren’t there to defend her like you should be? FUCK, you want to scream, but that would be energy wasted when you cannot afford it. Already, your chest heaves in and out from the effort of you moving about the forest. You have to find her before the rest of these idiots. Damnit. You should have told her about the invasion earlier, but you couldn’t. What if she had gone to MIDAS or GHOST? No, your drugged brain tells you. You did the right thing. She couldn’t know.

A flash of white seen in the corner of your eyes catches your attention and, in your agitated state, you do not hesitate. “DON’T ATTACK!” you command, bellowing as you suddenly lurch towards the creamy color that you saw to your left. Just to be on the safe side, you send out your blood magic, hoping to stop this would-be ELSA in her tracks. You just need a moment to explain. Imagine your disappointment, then, when you realize that you haven’t attacked ELSA at all.

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:: Oxy shows OPHELIA and her crew in through a secret entrance in the south-west of the Falls

:: Oxy begins to search for ELSA, unsuccessfully, but thinks he sees her nearby. He lurches towards the UNSPECIFICED CHARACTER without intention to physically attack, but uses his blood magic:
:: [Magic: DarkxWater (U) | Able to burst red blood cells, causing reduced hemoglobin levels therefore signs of anemia and oxygen deprivation and also damage platelets]
:: [Restrictions | Symptoms include muscle cramping, shortness of breath, increased heart rate, disorientation and causes bruising and internal bleeding for 30 seconds]