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[OPEN] anthem of the angels [nyx funeral]

Arakh Posts: 77
Dragon's Throat Stallion atk: 5 | def: 8 | dam: 7
Stallion :: Hybrid :: 17'2hh :: 2 HP: 66.5 | Buff: NOVICE
Snow
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The journey to the Edge has never felt longer. Arakh knows he must stay strong for Esinakh - wherever she is, aching that he can't be with her - but it's so damn hard when he, too, has lost his mother. He can hardly believe that he is an orphan and not even near his first birthday yet, that he no longer has the silver's love or guidance to help him through the days. Both he and Esinakh don't rely on her for sustenance anymore, but they rely on her for so much more than that - affection, the gentle reassuring touch of muzzle to hip, life lessons, a mother's undying love that can never be replaced.

She loved them, raised them, visited them daily even when they left to the Throat. Now she's gone, and even with his sister at his side, the calf has never felt more alone.

He follows the small procession of misery, watching his mother's body jiggle in the tusks of Tembovu. How can she be gone? She was always so full of life...a warrior to the end, taken down in battle. He bleats softly, finding himself unwittingly following Oizys towards the lush pastures by the cliffs at the far side of the herdland. His initial anger at his older sister has faded to be replaced with an aching pit of grief, an unpluggable hole of emptiness and pain that he knows will never be filled. Despite her vulgar bravado, he senses that Oizys feels the same way, and the guilt at being the one to cause it should be enough punishment for her to carry with her without him adding more on top of it.

Arakh does not register surprise when his yearling sister transforms into a bear. She begins to dig, using her forepaws like spades to carve through the ground, and without thinking he moves to help. It feels right that the mare's children be the ones to dig her final resting place, the hole where she will spend her eternity. His hooves are nowhere near as effective as Oizys' claws, but he uses them to the best of his ability, scraping away pebbles and helping to clear the path for his sister's sharp talons.

ARAKH

[ ARAKH ]


Messages In This Thread
anthem of the angels [nyx funeral] - by Oizys - 02-06-2017, 07:15 AM
RE: anthem of the angels [nyx funeral] - by Arakh - 02-06-2017, 07:31 AM
RE: anthem of the angels [nyx funeral] - by Iona - 02-18-2017, 01:40 PM

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