i am a leaf on the wind

At this point, Lyanna truthfully has no idea where she is, and only a vague sense of what direction she’s come from. There’s something freeing about the maze, like it can suck away every thought of the past and the future and actually just leave her in the present. She’s busy trying to figure out where she is, where she wants to go, how she might get out (assuming she doesn’t cheat), and she’s starting to have fun with it.
 
Somehow, thought of Corbin melt away. Worries for Adelene. Foolish girl, running off and hiding like she did. But here, she doesn’t live with their ghosts quite so much. Doesn’t live with her regrets and worries. Everything is so green, an emerald palace with walls built of bamboo, and though she has no idea how something like this naturally forms, there’s enough magic in Helovia that it sort of makes sense. Though she doubts it was put here for therapeutic purposes. She might very well be the first one who so enjoys getting so lost.
 
It’s not until a little fox with five tails comes dashing through the brush and then out again that she’s pulled fully back to Helovia. She shakes her head, tossing white and teal hair haphazardly on either side of her neck. Though her hair, so well trained from too many years a pampered Princess, slowing rights itself until it falls back all on one side. She actually sort of wishes it would just get messy, but she seems to be cursed to look forever prim and proper. Except the few various stains from painting on her wing, but those would probably fade eventually.
 
It’s only a few moments before a Hello rings out, and Lyanna turns to find the source. The voice seems nice enough, so she doesn’t worry much, though probably she should. She’s in the middle of nowhere with a stranger. But the voice belongs to a gray mare with a kind enough expression on her face, and Lyanna relaxes. “Hello,” she offers back, nodding her head and smiling. She turns her fully face the other, and notices the little fox at the heels of the mare. Ah, so that’s where he came from. She smiles at him at well, just in case he’s looking.
 
In truth, she’s rather surprised to find anyone else here. She figured by now she was hopelessly lost in some remote part of Helovia, but apparently she wasn’t the only one that took to wandering today. Though perhaps her new companion had wandered into this place purposefully, unlike Lyanna, who’d just got too distracted to notice what was going on around her. “I’m Lyanna,” she offers. “Would it be entirely ridiculous if I asked you what this place is?”  

watch how i soar.

lyanna