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Actions | "Speech" | Thought
It had been a couple days now since Tio and Phaedra had split up. He'd used her to the best of his ability and she had proved most useful. If he had his way, she would continue to do so. On many different aspects. Their meeting was the start of something big, something grand. The stud was no fool. He knew that, as a neutral spy, she would be running off to tell her superiors of his arrival, and possibly the existing herd leaders. This did not perturb him. He was not going to waver in his plans. True it would take longer to prepare for the inevitable, but he was a patient stallion. He would wait, build up his forces, and in the meantime, the herd leaders would tire out their own forces waiting for him to come to them. First though, he needed to choose a target.
That was why he was here, scouting the terrain of one of the herd lands and moving silently so as not to bring unneeded attention to himself. He remembered Phaedra saying something about the Dragons Throat heard containing a lot of Pegasi, so he kept checking the skies and laying down in the tall grass when he felt himself in danger of being seen. For now, however, even if he was tense with the sense of being on enemy territory, he was as relaxed as he could be knowing there were no shadows flashing across the sun right now. The sky was cloudless and blue, which helped his cause tremendously in the fact that he had clear warning when something flew overhead. The downside is that the sun was bright and reflected off his coat like flashes of dusty bronze. He flattened his ears in annoyance. Not only would he stick out like a sore thumb if someone came flying across right now, there were no hiding spots in this area, it seemed.
So far, however, he liked what he saw. The throat had plenty of lush grass and water to support a large herd and enough trees to shelter from the weather when it came. Feeling accomplished and confident in his findings, the stallion turned away from the path he had been following. his intent was to leave discreetly before he was seen. He slipped up, however, by not checking the sky again. If he had, he would have seen the shadow approaching him from the horizon. His slip up was due to being happy, for once, that he was making progress in his plans. Now, when he began to recruit warriors to his cause, he could tell them exactly what he was going to do, which leader he wanted to overthrow, which land he wanted.
He already had a plan for recruiting too. The sooty dun would appeal to those that had been kicked from their homes, forced to roam the wilds as outcasts. He would join with the grey, and barter their help training the recruits if they needed it. He would set up a payment arrangement, by offering the twin leaders a pre-existing branch of his bloodline, provided by the lovely Phaedra. Nothing could be more perfect than such a match, at least not in his mind. By covering her, he would cement her relations with him and give the Grey a strong, healthy soldier for the future. Breaking into a trot, the stallion exuded confidence in every aspect of his movement. His acid green eyes burned with a passion for the proverbial path opening up before him. Truly, fortune seemed to be shining on him... He should have looked up.
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For Levi, played by Avi
Open for another slot if someone else from the Throat wants to intervene.
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