Patrols, once an easy drill to perform, a welcome duty that signified herd life and family, were now awful. The coasting and scanning of the grounds below gave her too much time to think. It wasn't very physical work, and so well practiced she didn't put much thought into either, she put them all elsewhere instead and hated it. In her youth she'd been able to take to the skies and lighten her heart on the eddied and the thermals, but no matter how quick she flew or how long, her troubles stayed with her, as much a part of her as her shadow, and
Kygo.
The bird flew alongside her, using her slip stream to keep up, though he often tired faster than she and retired to some tree branch below to wait for her - but he always tried, which she would find admirable if she ever paid attention to it. As it was, he was one of the troubles she was often trying to escape, so she spared him as little notice as possible, which made him infuriatingly demanding for her attention.
He noticed the pair on the shore first, his eyes better than hers. His quiet quip and unwelcome flash in her eyes of what he was looking at alerted her to them. Though she was none to happy to have found them
through Kygo, she was desperate from any distraction from herself. Quick as a whip she angled on her right wing, cutting sharply through the distance as the wind pushed differently against her. Her tail fathers fanned to flow her while her wings reached back to cup the air as she came in to land before them, not bothering to circle above and analyze as was her routine. She didn't care who it was, it was
someone that wasn't tied up in her mess of a life and that was good enough. They could be invaders for all she cared, it'd be better than her own head space.
Not invaders, she noticed as she settled in the sand, blue gaze lifting towards the horses.
"'Lo Ilios!" she greeted, attempting to put on a smile and some charm.
Fake it 'til you make it.
"Who've you got with you?" she asked casually, her head tilting with inquiry. Unabashed her attention washed across the stranger, probing for strength and weaknesses with a militant purpose that was out of habit more than judgement.
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