SWP :: Not without consequences

SWP :: Not without consequences

Mesec the Nightwind Posts: 476

World's Edge Glazier atk: 5.5 | def: 9 | dam: 5

Stallion :: Tribrid :: 16.3hh :: 7 years old HP: 76 | Buff: NOVICE

Lucius :: Royal Zephyr :: Roc & Lyra :: Common Kitsune :: Dreams Sarah

08-30-2015, 08:43 PM

I'll fight to survive through this thunderous life
without you by my side

Travelling back to the Throat took slower with Najya, but he could not begrudge her that - not when she was such jovial company. Mesec would rather keep an easy pace and get to know this new friend than leave her behind and take to the skies. Lucius preferred land travel as well, as he was still perfecting the art of flying, and even emerged from the shelter of Mesec’s wings to coast alongside the pair for short intervals. He was always careful not to swoop too close to Najya, he wasn’t entirely sure what he thought of the golden girl, but circled them as he tested out those uncertain pairs of wings.

Mesec, even while keeping a careful eye on his companion to make sure the zephyr wasn’t injured, spent most of the walk talking to Najya and telling her about the different lands in Helovia. From the herdlands, which she already knew a fair bit about - no doubt from a stint in the Threshold - all those that surrounded them, from Heavenly Fields up above the clouds to the caves where they had sheltered during the time of plague. It was, overall, a rather complicated and long story, but not so long that it seemed normal for him to look up halfway through and realize that he had no idea where they were. He had noticed that he made a mistake with their direction a little while ago, taking her further east instead of south, but…

“Hold on.” He faltered to a stop, his senses on red alert. “I’ve… never seen this place before.” It felt strange, and he wondered if they had wandered right out of Helovia. No, this was something new. And just as he was trying to place where they were, he spied the black and silvery smoke retreating. His heart did a violent twist - love and terror acting as merciless hot and icy hands on his organs.“Najya, I’m going to fly ahead and see if it’s safe, but I think you should…” He wanted to tell her to turn around because he wasn’t sure what waited there in the depths of this bamboo forest, but the words wouldn’t come. How could he encourage her to run?

But after his silver eyes lingering on hers for a moment, he took off and searched. Even in this dense green, his mother wasn’t hard to find. Her brilliant violet coat shone like always, the tendrils of smoke fading. When he landed near her, he couldn’t find his voice - barely getting out a soft whicker as a greeting to start. Seeing her sent the confusion into a hurricane within him, both hating her and loving her - and all at once forgiving her? No, he couldn't. The words of the dark feline when he had been gifted Lucius still would not leave his mind, and now was he going to be given the chance to fix things?

His voice wouldn’t bring out anything that he wanted to say to her - as always, it never felt like the right time. So instead he asked something simpler - still apprehensive about the strange forest they were standing in. “Mother, what is this place?”