home is where i drop the anchor (joining)

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[OPEN] home is where i drop the anchor (joining)

Maude Posts: 140

World's Edge Filly

Filly :: Unicorn :: 15.3 :: Yearling

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#10

02-24-2017, 10:26 AM

Maude quiets to let the grown ups talk, but does smile and exclaim her delight when Uncle Bart says he’s coming to stay in the Edge.

"Really?!" she breathily gasps, a giggle swallowing her words, before a concerned glance towards her Auntie steals away the expression of delight on her face, for one of worry. What had Aelfwine and her daddy been doing? Maude certainly hadn’t a clue about any chaotic escapades, and would certainly be quite embarrassed to admit such, if he wasn’t just kidding.

Thankfully, Lyanna eases her worry; smiling at her teacher, the girl, too, steps aside to allow her Uncle into the Moon’s kingdom. Listening to the grown up talk of ranks and jobs, the ginger and cream cherub is quite glad that she was already quite sure of what she wanted to do with her life. Healing and plants had always called to her, and so, unlike Uncle Bartholomeo, the child was a jack of one trade, but would likely be quite good at it, for all her focus on the subject.

The idea of her handsome Uncle being a soldier makes the romantic child’s heart swoon, her citrine eyes widening as she looks to the dual toned, tree-shouldered stallion, her mind filling with visages of his shining armor, as he drove away fierce shadow demons, and bone monsters. Of course, she hadn’t seen the monstrosity that Kaos had made, having gone home to rest from all their uncovering of bones, but she had heard about it, and stories, alone, were enough to inspire imaginative beasts.

She misses the flirtatious glances and exchanges, too young to know more than friendship in truth, having only fanaticized a love that was not bound to her by fate, such as that of her family. While she dreams of her Prince Charming on regular occasion, the girl is just that – a girl – her eyes filled with starlight, and her mind naïve.

Giggling when Lyanna suggest that Bart become a gardener, Maude quickly thinks of her own joke, proudly sharing it with a loud whisper (that she is actually trying to guise, unlike her tutor).

"But his big hooves will trample the plants!" she chortles, her spring-green eyes crinkling with her giggles.

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