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Tilney Posts: 288
World's Edge Moon Doctor atk: 4 | def: 9 | dam: 6
Stallion :: Unicorn :: 16.2hh :: VI HP: 65 | Buff: NOVICE
Peatree :: Lesser Fruit Bat :: None Neverrmind
#1
Tilney

Aiya Anor, Elenion Ancalima!

The doctor had had quite enough of standing on the sidelines, watching life pass him by. Maude had grown up right before his eyes and all he had done was sway in the background, making it harder for her to be happy, and the longer he existed with the mindset that life was something that happened to you, he was a stallion treading through the thickest, most vile waters. How long before he was pulled under? Tilney needed oxygen, he needed clarity. He needed his sons and he needed their safety guaranteed, not questioned or assumed under an incompetent amazonian of a mother with a warped idea of love and family.
Tilney's good opinion once lost was one lost forever.

When the dirt turned to sand, that was when Tilney knew he would be near his boys. The grass had turned from a minty green to the colour of wilted straw, the sand beneath hardly holding it into place as he tread over it.
With enough supplies to last him a number of days, Tilney made his way to a familiar set of caves to make his camp. The twins could be anywhere out here, anywhere at all, and so a central point to make camp would make searching for them all the easier. With Peatree keeping watch fro ma small post above the heart, Tilney lay out his cloak, lantern and herbs in the first room of the caves, the room which would be his accommodation for his week's adventure in the south.

With the moon taking the sun's place overhea,d the stars ruling the sky, Tilney settled into his place over his cloak. Questions filled his mind, wondering if they would even like to come with him, or if they had grown too used to their primal ways. Could they still love him? What did Jude look like? Would they recognise him? Would Maude still love them?
Craning his head downwards beside his lantern, The flaxen stag closed his eyes, the heat of his beloved star warming his face as he drifted off into sleep.


@Byron @Jude
TILNEY HAS COME TO GET THE BOYS !!!!!!

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x

Wander or Leave
turn in to winter lights
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Jude Posts: 8
Dragon's Throat Colt
Stallion :: Unicorn :: 16.3 hh :: Two Seasons
Space
#2
 

"I DEFY YOU, STARS."


When he had been younger - and that is to say, not so long ago - he had often wandered from the Throat, searching in vain for answers that were not yet his. His little hooves had tapped a familiar rhythm as he wandered, as far and as wide as his strength could allow, but always, always he had returned home empty handed and demoralised. Each trip had taken a teardrop from his soul, and finally he had come to his last care - his last hope, the last little hopeful tear kept safely within the confines of his archaic mind, not to spent. He wasn't searching for anything (anyone) tonight, merely allowing his feet to take him wherever they pleased - for he had other things on his mind. Someone that smelt like spring and freshness, someone that looked upon the world with wonder in her eyes. In his abandonment of hope and his search for knowledge, Jude had forgotten to guard what was left of his despondent heart and in turn, had realised he had more to hope for than he had thought.

A small, unremarkable smile coiled on his lips as he walked, the soft strawberry waves of his hair brushing against his skin familiarly. He had not realised exactly how far he had gotten until the glow of the ever-burning heart cast an orange glow upon his broad nose. Jude studied the heart with interest, though he had been there many times before, multi-coloured eyes struggling in the dimness. His candles were lit, providing a small glow of their own, but he still found the darkness to be tricky. Not for the first time he wished his eyes worked as normal, better than normal even, but he had long come to accept his sight would be faded at night. Instead, the philosophising young colt paid more attention to the loose sand beneath his feet, and to the bright points of light that he knew to be stars -- and perhaps he found himself to be more loyal to those stars than to anyone else in his frightened heart.

The glow and the warmth of the heart beckoned him, but in truth it was the other light that drew the son of Tilney forward into the caves. There was a mysterious orange glow that was cast in the caves, not by the heart nor any wild flame that Jude knew... and so he entered with his curiosity in hand and in heart - never expecting to find the man he had unknowingly missed since the day of his birth. There was no mistaking the man... and even if Tilney had had brown skin and black hair, or any other manner of appearance, Jude felt that he would have known. This was his father. This unassuming man laying comfortably upon his soft cloak, with looks so similar to his own... only older. This was Tilney, of the Worlds Edge. A sense of misery filled his heart until he felt sick, staring down at the mirror image of himself and his brother. What was Tilney doing here? Jude stared down at his father in silence, wishing for the first time that his candles would extinguish in shadow so that he could back away into darkness. Should he say something? Wake the man?

Jude felt the strength of the ancient caverns around them and found his resolve hardening - all he'd wanted for as long as he'd known was for Tilney to come and claim him and Byron, and now he had. That hole in his chest still loomed, though, and too late Jude realised that Tilney was not alone - for a little fruit bat stared up at him with large, silent eyes. There was nothing to do but acknowledge him, so Jude gave a slow, meaningful nod of his handsome head. No longer was Tilney a ghost, a vanished sire, for here he was. He was here.


@Tilney @Byron !!! sorry for gloomy Jude haha




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Tilney Posts: 288
World's Edge Moon Doctor atk: 4 | def: 9 | dam: 6
Stallion :: Unicorn :: 16.2hh :: VI HP: 65 | Buff: NOVICE
Peatree :: Lesser Fruit Bat :: None Neverrmind
#3
Tilney

Aiya Anor, Elenion Ancalima!

Sleep came to him with ease. Like an ocean it had broke upon his body, the tide collecting at his hooves and dragging him out into the dark current like a ragdoll. Flexing his ankles and murmuring the faintest of groans, the patriarch radiated naught but exhaustion as he lay there in the tide of slumber, completely unnaware of who approached.
It was Peatree who had made the discovery - he who possessed ever-keen ears had sensed the child's rugged breaths long before he had even come close to the cave.

Bright eyes peered out to the stars, his wings stretched over his ribs as he hung from the stallion's antlers. At first the bat was fearful; fearful of who or what could be approaching, though when the half-sized colt made his appearance, a small whistle of relief left the bat's nostrils.
Still, the bat had no real clue who it was that stood starry eyed looking at them.

'Tilney, up wake!'
The call was heard as a whisper through his sleep, causing the chesntut to grumble and stir, though not quite wake.
'up wake! here baby horse!'
Peatree's voice grew more urgent as the seconds passed, soon the weight of the chiroptera's body lifting from his crown entirely as the creature parachuted downwards to the sandy floor to nudge the stag in the girth.

Tilney, who by now has managed to flutter his lashes and lick his chops, slowy opened his jaws in a wide yawn (and if Peatree hadn't leaped out of the way, would have chomped right down on the poor thing). Carelessly the ginger man peeled his eyes open, tossing his gaze over the well-lit cave. It took only a number of moments for him to notice the pair of dazzled, starry eyes staring at him from the mouth of the grotto.
Tilney could hardly see the creature in the dark, only a pair of precious eyes and the silhouette of gangly limbs and a weedy neck could be seen amongst the stary sky. "Hello?" He cooed, completely unnaware of exactly who it was that stood out there in the night and all the blessings he held.

@Jude
EEEEE AAAAAAA

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x

Wander or Leave
turn in to winter lights
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