The orange mare did not approve of the invasion that had taken place and the fact that Thor had marched off to fight in it left her with a bad taste in her mouth. What was the purpose of it? Because they didn't want to live in the Edge with the Moon Goddess there? Then leave and go live somewhere else. Why oust an entire group from their home instead of asking to live with them. To Evangeline the answer was clear. It was greed. It was power. It was because the Edge's leaders wanted to hold onto their power and not become just another run of the mill member of another herd.

She was disappointed, nearly to the point of being disgusted with the three of them. Did they really think that they would be safe from the Moon Goddess in another herd? Did they forget about the Sun God and his rampage that burned two herd lands that were not his own? Yes, the Moon Goddess had committed murders, yes she was despicable, horrible, dishonorable, and mean, but what made them any better than her? They had attacked a herd, uprooted the lives of families who were trying to go about their lives. They had no idea of the trauma they inflicted on young minds and how it would last and affect them well into their adult years.

No idea.

Did they even care or were they so wrapped up in themselves that it didn't matter what happend to anyone else as long as they were happy?

"Tallis..." Evangeline called to her dragon, who had flown ahead of her to scan the battlefield and look for Thor. "This is wrong." She sighed when Tallis didn't respond to her, probably because he didn't know what to say. He was a dragon and the instinct to fight was still ingrained into who he was no matter how often he chose not to for the sake of his bonded. Tears pricked Eva's emerald eyes as she came upon the Falls and saw the individuals that had been defeated that were leaving. She whispered apologies to them as she continued forward, though no amount of apologies could change what had happened.

The smell of blood was thick, heavy, nauseating, oppressing. It pricked at fears and memories that Evangeline had tried to keep burried and hidden away in her subconscious. Without wanting to she remembered the invasion of the Moonlit Tides. She remembered the smell of blood from broken bodies and the salt from the sea, the sound of screams intermingling with the crashing waves. It sent a chill down Eva's spine and she shook her head, but that alone would never be enough to be completely rid of the memories that haunted her childhood.

"Oh, Gods." She whispered as she continued farther into the herd land. She didn't know if she could do it. She didn't know if she could live there knowing that her family had just violently taken a herd when their issues could have been settled peacefully and diplomatically. But why settle for diplomacy when violence was so much easier?

"Thor?" Evangeline called out as she came to a halt on the battlefield. "Do you see him, Tallis?" She asked, looking up toward the sky at her dragon. 'No.' Came his reply, making Evangeline's blood feel like it turned to an icy slosh in her veins. "No?" She asked aloud, eyes still skyward. Where could he be? She'd watched him leave, had told him to be careful even though she didn't approve. Had he fallen in battle? If he did she would never forgive him, not after everything he had put her through. "Please, Tallis. Find him and bring him here." She pleaded with the dragon, watching as he disappered to do what she requested of him.

And so she waited, standing on the battlefield, the Moon Goddess' feather in her mane still giving off black smoke like it always did. A symbol that even in another herd she would still be there.

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