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we heal with love
Today had been the first time Alysanne and Hemlock had flown to the Riptide Isles together. Every other time had involved Hemlock flying around in circles or catching dragonflies and waterbugs while Alysanne slowly swam across the channel that separated Helovia from the islands. But this time she arrived completely dry! And it was lovely to take those first few steps on the near-tropical islands and not be instantly covered in the soft sand sticking to her dry coat and feathers. Trying to preen out sand was just a disaster!
Equipped with her bag, the pair had just begun looking around the forest bordering the beach for some helpful plants when a booming voice interrupted them.
It was warm but that hardly stopped the painted mare from filling with an icy dread.
Alysanne felt wary, but could you blame her? She had come across two strange creatures here in the Isles before - one a fearsome god that spewed out acid that her wings bore the scars of on their undersides, and the second a smaller fearsome creature who had, after some inquiries, given her and Hemlock each a gift. She internally cursed herself for the joke she had made in the Threshold with Dragomir and Syrena, about how things had been quiet around Helovia for a while. Talk about jinxing it!
Turning away from the trees, she returned to the beach and travelled in the direction of the voice for a little ways before seeing what was unmistakably the caller. Helovia might be a strange place but she always felt rather sure when seeing something that was just otherworldly.
Though she approached, she didn’t get too close, lingering back about a dozen meters where she could comfortably eye this strange sea creature. Indeed, it looked like it had crawled right out of the ocean - as if it was made out of the ocean. “Welcome to Helovia.” Well just because she was wary didn’t mean she was liable to be impolite! Besides, she wasn’t really sure what else to say. Perhaps a friendly greeting might go some way to stopping destruction like what happened with Helovia’s last mysterious visitors.
alysanne & hemlock
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