i am a leaf on the wind

She would have preferred to fly, but of course, she always preferred to fly. But today, she doesn’t mind the walk. She is strangely excited to see the Throat, because despite having lived here for years, it would be her first visit to the place. The other place that could have been home, if she’d chosen that path. At first, she’d wondered if the choice had been right, though slowly she came to believe the Edge was always the right home for her. It was like Morham, in some ways (though maybe those ways are what made it so hard to move on).

It is also the most time she’s spent with Tembovu, and it is nice to get to know her King in a way that she currently only knows her Queen. He speaks of his old home, a lot of his time in Helovia and stories of the past she has yet to hear. The Rift wars, something she’s started to get snippets of, and he helps to fill in those pieces. She tries to keep up her own polite banter, offering tidbits from her past that are largely trivial, because she cannot really talk about anything else from that. And she has nothing to tell of Helovia that everyone else does not already know.

They stop at the sea. Part of her longs to simply take to the sky and cross the distance, though she refrains, knowing that is frowned upon. Besides, she hopes to stay and meet with their healers. She’d been invited by admitted a child to visit, but then again in the Threshold by a stallion that seemed to have some authority. In case they let her stay, she’d come with a bundle of cedar and ferns to offer to the healers here.

A stallion from the Throat joins them quickly, introducing himself as Volterra the Indomitable. Which seems appropriate, given that he’s rather massive and just had wings of fire. It is, clearly, the first time she’s seen the Throat’s ‘bridge’. No wonder the herd once favored pegasi. Just easier to get them across. “A pleasure to meet you,” she offers with a nod of her head.

The herbs are still tucked behind her wing at the moment, because it doesn’t seem like the right time. Hi, I’m actually just here to talk about plants, is not how you act as a diplomat. She would know, after all. She’s done this a million times. “I’m Lyanna, one of the Moon Doctors in the Edge.” And then she leaves it at that, because she has nothing else to offer in this conversation really. She’s mostly along for the ride. And plants. Always plants.

watch how i soar.

lyanna