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Hotaru the Valkyrie Posts: 295

Outcast atk: 7 | def: 10.5 | dam: 3

Mare :: Unicorn :: 15.3hh :: 6 Years 3 Months HP: 67 | Buff: NOVICE

Alice :: Royal Hellhound :: Acid Brit

03-05-2014, 12:21 AM

As strong as the seas are stormy.</style>

Wrapped round a perfect pearly horn is a gilded golden chain, an amber stone clinging to the bottom of the item she had worked so hard to obtain. It glitters in every ray of light that shines off it, and with every renewal of awareness that it's there, she feels lighter. At last, she has proven that she can do something! Raeden may have magic, and Phaedra may be perfect in every possible way, but Hotaru was more than the ugly duckling. She was more than everyone had ever given her credit for. At last she had proof she could be a master sleuth like her mother, that maybe she wasn't a deadbeat after all. Maybe she actually had potential, shimmering inside her somewhere. See? She didn't need anybody! She didn't need Rae, or Tingal, or anybody else! Lonely though she may be, she was too proud to admit it, and too upset by others to possibly want to be near them. She feared to hurt them with her barbed tongue and scared, flighty personality. What if they found her unworthy? What if they discovered her family, and realized what a mess up she was in comparison?

But she had to keep trying. She'd been too late for the little griffin of the Heart, but she would not give up. She was lonely, her heart cried out for something to fill the space her family had never wanted to claim. So instead she hopes that she will be given the chance- no, the opportunity- to have a companion to be at her side for the rest of their mortal lives. Loneliness was going to drive her to the brink sooner than later, and she feared the nights of cold emptiness that plagued her. Wasn't she supposed to be draped in friends at her age? But it wasn't to be.

So distracted in her half-prideful, half-sorrowful musings over the chain draped over her horn and her bitterness, she nearly missed the massive moving creature among the snowy mounds. And when she did spot him, she nearly jumped out of her skin. Curiosity drove her closer, for she'd seen turtles before, but never one like him! Dancing closer she watched him as he cared for an orb much like the one she'd seen in the Heart. Was it his? How odd! But he seemed kindly, so she gave a hesitant smile- when was the last time she'd smiled at all? So few ever stopped to talk to her it was hard to tell- and cleared her throat softly.

"Excuse me, sir? Do you need help with your baby? Turtles...lay eggs, right?" Her features became sheepish and a little flustered at her own lack of knowledge, but her smile was kind as she offered her help. "I don't have anywhere to be, and company is always good, right?"

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