The Throat has always held an allure for him. It was where his father rose to greatness, where he was born, where he watched the Wildfire crumble to ash. Deep in his heart, he's always thought of it as home. He's always pictured himself ending up there, it was simply a case of finding the right time. After discussing things with Esinakh, it's settled - they are to move.

Somehow, though, he doesn't think Mai is going to be very happy to see her youngest children flying the nest.

She gave up her position as General to look after him and Esinakh, and it feels like ingratitude of the highest order to throw that back in her face by promptly leaving. He loves the Edge, he does, but it just....isn't home. Surely his dam will understand that her offspring must grow up and move on, will understand that they hold far more of a bond with their paternal siblings than they do with their maternal ones. The calf has never even met d'Arcy or Libertad, and his limited impressions of Oizys are far from pleasant. She treats them like vermin, which Arakh thinks is highly out of order since she's not even his blood-sister, just some orphan bastard that Mai took in. So he's been told, anyway.

Of course, their paternal siblings are far from blameless - they utterly ignored Arakh at Gaucho's death, and one of them even attempted to scar him for life by using her magic to move his dead sire's head. No, his first impressions of them aren't the best either, but he has faith that if he lives with them, things will improve. They have to.

It's a chilly winter morning when the colt rises and shakes the gathered snow from his wings. He's growing by the day, strapping and powerfully-built, with a fine rack of bull's horns sprouting savagely from his brow. Surely his dam will understand that he's a growing boy, he needs to be around other colts his own age where he can rough and tumble and play, practice the battle moves he will use when he's older. "Mai?" he says, hunting for his mother. He shuffles forwards and releases a small bleating cry for Esinakh as well, knowing that she will want to be hear to deliver the news. Finally he calls out for Tembovu, the big king of the Edge who he's assuming will want to know that two of his members are leaving.