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Three years ago this very season, Alysanne had stumbled across Helovia. She had been greeted by the most delightful combination of faces (once Kahlua had stopped her crying). So much had changed since then but what had she really done to give back to the herd that had taken her in? She became a healer, certainly, and did what she could - forever under the shadow of Resplendence.
Not any more, unless it was just the memory of the meek mare, but still she had not moved from the shadows.
It felt like she was thawing after a long winter, a slow process that had begun late in Birdsong and which was picking up now. Finally she was returning to something like her former self. She wasn’t normally the brooding, grudge-holding mare that she had been since the invasion.
She was thinner than usual, even after the lush Birdsong, but the fact was easily concealed under her wings. The physical tolls that her anger and guilt had on her were things that she was not willing to share - carefully hidden as best as they could be from her daughter, her twin, and any other members of the herd. Thankfully, Hemlock could not rat her out.
Gaining back the weight would have to wait, though, she had other things to do. Soon after sunrise, the pegasus stirred from the nest that she slept in beneath a great Douglas-fir - the nest being a wild tangle of grass and flowers that fed off of the magic she leeched into the soil.
Hemlock, ever her guardian, hopped around on his branch and made known his usual concern. “No, dear one, I’m fine today. Will you do me a favour though? Help me find Evangeline?” Unconvinced about her response, he nonetheless hooted his assent. He much preferred the friends of Aly without dragons but if it got his bonded up and talking to someone else he wasn’t going to complain.
After swooping down to tug at her mane affectionately, he took off through the evergreens in search of the chestnut mare, her fellow Moon Doctor.
Alysanne left her sleeping area as well, seeking a sunnier spot in the Edge where she could feel the breeze off of the sea and enjoy the warmth from the sun.
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