"Brighid? Hemera? Persephone?" She called out, getting nothing but silence back. The mare was walking under the crowns of tall trees, searching the shadows with bronzed eyes. Where were her sisters? She couldn't have lost them forever... Could she?
"Cealestis? Iris? Selene? Come on, you have to be here." Her voice was soft and full of innocence, the young mare was afraid. Where would she end up without her sisters? They had all escaped Mother together, flying off into the unknown during the night.
Then the storm... Oh, they had to be here somewhere.
"Come on, girls..." Her tune was now insecure, starting to become more and more afraid. Where was she? Who was out there? Where were they? If she had really lost them, then... What would she do? She was only five years old. It had gone two years since they lost each other in the storm, flying off in different directions. Antiope had tried to follow her eldest sister, Hemera, but eventually the golden mare had disappeared into the darkness. As well for her other siblings.
The peg sighed, her breath slightly broken since she was on the edge of crying, and she continued to walk. They were gone. Hemera, her golden Sun-sister. Cealestis, the daughter of the sky. Brighid, the earthy draft. Selene, the moon's mare. Persephone, daughter of the darkness. And lastly, Iris, the rainbow's favored daughter.
She missed them all so much, and it broke her heart that she might not ever see them again. None of them.
As the silver dark bay walked on, she felt a tear run down her cheek. Why had their mother been so cruel to the stallions? If she had been a loving and sweet Queen, they would've stayed and never separated from each other. Oh, she hated her mother. The dragon-tattooed had been so cruel, so cold.
She had raised them all to be just like her too, but it had failed so badly. None of her sisters - nor herself - was like Inanna. They were all friendly and nice... Lovable. But the silver bay had changed a lot since she lost them.
She was afraid, shy - and a liar. The name Freja had grown onto her, giving her a fake identity whenever she had to introduce herself. She had even given herself a fake story and lineage just to hide from possible Elysia-soldiers. The feeling deep within her told her that soldiers sent by Inanna were just around the corner, just around that tree. Avoidingly she took a long way around an oak just because of that thought.
Antiope just wanted to feel safe for once. Just once.

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Sounds of another made the mare twist her ear and flick it back, listening. Someone was close to her. Warningly, she let her wings stand out from her sides a bit and rest in the air, now inches away from her muscular body. With suspicion in mind, she turned her dark head to the one behind her and gasped. Equine. She hadn't seen an equine since she met a herd of them a year ago. They had been nice, sure, but they fascinated her with their lack of wings. Antiope turned around, folding her silver wings to her sides again to show that she meant no harm. She widened her nostrils to take in the equine's scent, and she was surprised to find that it was a stallion. But... He looked healthy? Had it only been in Elysia that the stallions were abused throughout their lives? Was it only there the stallions were slaves for the mares?
She looked him over, taking in his all being into her mind. He was handsome - or good-looking - and she felt a positive aura around him. But was he one to trust?
"Is there anything i can help you with, Ma'am?"
There were many things he could help her with if they knew each other better, but for now, she didn't dare to speak of her sisters. Or her real identity. Luckily, she had become a pretty good liar during the two years she had spent alone.
"Yes, good sir." She started, her voice as soft as always. The mare sounded yet so young, as if she still was only three years old.
"I... I need a home. Or a shelter." The peg became insecure and looked away, her white pupils within bronzed eyes searching for something to lock her gaze on. She found a pretty blue flower on the ground not far from them, and she locked her gaze on that.
"My name is Freja, by the way." She closed her eyes and relaxed her wings, letting the silvery tips of them touch the ground. Oh, she did not like to lie, but it was necessary for her survival. It really was, but how - she didn't know. Without a doubt in her reversed colored eyes, she opened them and looked straight at the buckskin. She let her long legs move towards the stallion, out of the shadows and into the sunlight so that he could see her better.
The mare was careful not to put her cloven hooves into any holes, because she didn't want to fall and make a fool out of herself in front of a stallion. Antiope thought about what she had just been thinking and sighed with her thinking-voice. Maybe she had been affected by her Mother on that one thing. The thought of stallions being slaves.

She flicked her ears halfway back as she took a few more steps closer to the stag, looking at him with fake curiosity. Did he come from a place with shelter? Or even better, did he come from a home? She could smell dirt and heat on his pelt, which gave her a mental picture of a desert.
Of course, the mare had passed a few deserts on the way here, but she could never imagine that there were a desert in these lush lands.
"What's your name?"

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"Antiope speaks."

"Ah, A home. well i can show you where I have landed a place of sanctuary."
Antiope watched the stallion drop his head and raise it again in a bow, making her blush on her silvery brown cheeks. Fortunately, it wasn't visible as the mare's coat was all too dark for any blush to show. Thankfully. She saw his smile when she returned her bronze and white gaze to him, and vaguely tried to smile back. It had been so long since she last smiled. The last time had been when she had played with Iris on a lavender field, but that smile had disappeared when Mother had come to take them home.
That pathetic excuse for a Queen. Antiope watched the stallion's reacton as she had moved closer, surprised to find his eyes widen and staring at her. Insecurity began to fill her veins and she looked away again. She felt uncomfortable when stallions stared, but she wasn't used to it.
Not yet.
"My name..? Well it's Apodis. This place, It's not too far from here. If you care to follow me, I'll take you to my abode."
Apodis was a pretty name for a stallion like him and the peg smiled again, more visible this time. He had a home. But his voice sounded more brave and the tune had changed from the welcome of a stranger to a risk-taking stud.
Did she really want to risk her security for this stallion?

She stretched out her neck to reach his with her small muzzle and nudged Apodis' neck. Then she quickly withdrew herself and lowered her head, arching her neck with all the grace that the Arabian blood in her veins allowed her to have. Her silver mane covered her neck smoothly, glistening in the vague sunlight from above.
Maybe it was too much, but it was probably enough for the stallion to bring her to his home. That was something she had learned during her two years alone, even though she was still rather young for a mare.
Looking down, she parted her dark lips.
"I'd love to come with you, Apodis." The pegasus looked up, her silvery forelock laying on her nosebridge as she watched the buckskin with her very strange eyes.
Her eyes weren't that strange in Elysia, really. Three of her siblings had eyes that were like her own and only Hemera, Cealestis and Selene had eyes similar to their Mother's. But the mare guessed that they were strange enough to make someone gasp.

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"Antiope speaks."

Apodis almost immediately seemed like a stallion that she could trust. But, she wasn't ready to take that chance yet. If he said anything that made her suspicious about him know her past, then she would leave on her own.
"It is my honor to show you the way. Think of me as your body guard."
Or not. A body guard would be nice for the princess, as she would probably need one just in case someone tried something. For example, if her Mother found her. The peg frowned on the inside and looked at the buckskin, and saw the smile on his coffee lips. He trotted a bit away from her and plucked the flower that she had laid her eyes upon earlier. The mare widened her eyes and almost stared at him as he turned around with the flower in his mouth.
"A flower for the Lady."
Antiope blushed heavily and stared at the stag as he put the flower in her silver mane, right behind her ear so that the blue petals laid behind her left ear. "Oh, thank you..." She whispered, watching the stallion - still blushing very heavily. It probably showed on her dark skin, which made the mare even more embarrassed.

Luckily, he looked away at the skies and the mare could breathe easier again. It was something about the stallion that made her feel like she could trust him, but that she shouldn't let him know who she was yet. His gaze turned to the mare again and she heard his worries about the coming storm. She fired off a warm smile at him.
"Lead me to your home and I will follow, kind Apodis."
She watched him start to leave and moved her legs to follow, folding her wings tightly to her body as the cold air started to blow through the trees. This storm would not be fun if they continued to stay in the forest.

"I don't enjoy storms much, kind sir. How far is it to your abode?" The peg asked the stallion as softly as she could. He seemed like he liked her, or at least enjoyed her company. This was good, and it was perfect since he had already offered to become her body guard.
Starting a new life here was a possibility that she would not turn down.

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"Antiope speaks."