Across the bridge

[OPEN] Across the bridge

Ascended Helovian

Gaucho The Wildfire Posts: 1,004

Deceased atk: 8.5 | def: 11.5 | dam: 8

Stallion :: Pegasus :: 17.2 :: 12 HP: 85 | Buff: PINNACLE

Mara :: Black Mamba Snake :: Paralyze & Vorsa :: Plain Zephyr :: Phoenix Odd

04-18-2015, 05:09 PM

Gaucho exhaled. I did. How enlightening. Seasons passed Gaucho might have demanded an explanation. Who was the unicorn on the shores who had trapped them in an unwavering prison of ice spikes? Was the creature even real, or some illusion conjured by Mauja? Had he truly been swallowed up in the sea, or had it all been a trick? Was it magic? Or deception? But now ... now enough time had passed that it hardly seemed to matter. Lives had been lost because Gaucho had followed Mauja yes, that was certainly true. But looking back, would he and Midas really have done anything different? They had no way of knowing that an Invasion was coming, and pulling the two warriors away was a good play, Gaucho had to admit. Gaucho had nearly murdered Ophelia, but the two were ... acquaintances now? Friends? Bros seemed like a more fitting term, were it not for Ophelia's gender and the lusty looks that crossed Gaucho's face when he thought she wasn't looking (and even when he knew she was).

So Mauja had disappeared into the ocean. Big deal.

Gaucho would have liked to have confirmed what he had told Mauja during their last conversation, that he hadn't been the murderer, but couldn't. Mauja knew as much. His words were of little conciliation on the Island, although Gaucho was moderately surprised that the pale creature hadn't wanted his head as Archibald had. What he had said - rather, shouted - at them all was fairly reasonable. Gaucho didn't know why it had surprised him so much. Perhaps it was because he couldn't quite dispel the air of magic and mystery that he had so firmly transposed over the idea of the Frostheart.

Perhaps if Gaucho knew about whatever fleeting relationship there had been between Mauja and Ophelia, that would have given the two something to talk about. Perhaps if he knew anything about him at all really, he would have something to say. But he didn't. Mauja was a ghost, only this ghost story was surprisingly empty.

"Why you down here." Gaucho wasn't one for idle conversation, and so his words sounded less like a question, and more like a placeholder for something else.

What is happening. Why is this so weird x.x