Fortune favoured Alysanne this evening and it was not long before her companion’s baritone voice ‘By the cliffs.’ Came Hemlock’s report as he swooped out of the trees nearby and then down along their side to hunt out the insects coming with the night.
Had Alysanne been more aware of the ex-queen’s mental state as of late, this phrase would have surely sent a shiver of fear through her body and bade her move faster. As it was, she just changed her direction and made her way over toward those rocky cliffs. She wasn’t sure if it was a trick of the setting sun or actual fire but as she emerged from the trees she fancied she saw something fiery soaring out over the waves. But her attention turned from the beautiful sunset to the ghostly white stallion standing on the edge.
“Mauja?”
Her voice was quiet and her movements cautious - wary of being told to go away, unwilling to interrupt private thoughts when she had no right. They weren’t friends, after all. Perhaps they could be, and she realized she wouldn’t mind it, but for now they were only herd mates, bound together by the love for one filly.
Providing her presence was welcome - or at the very least tolerated - she came to stand beside him with a few feet of space between them. She felt wary in his presence and uncertain, that once friendly and exuberant side of her personality having been chipped away in the recent years. It was easy to falsify it for strangers but for the others she was stuck in a strange limbo, wanting nothing more than to try to brighten his day but uncertain about how to go about it.
“You know, if you were to fall I’d dive in after you.” She commented quietly instead, her green eyes on the waves below with only a ghost of a sad smile on her expression. It might have been a joke at another time, from another mouth and in another company, but even as she spoke it sobered her further.
It was true, of course - in regards to all manners of cliffs, from the physical to the mental. However limited their bond was, it was at least strong enough to ensure that fact for her and she would have him know it, if he ever had a need of her.
*ALYSANNE
lying on the edge of a star
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