Re: Dancing Bears, Painted Wings... [Unbonded RP!]
Indigosun watched from his position with wary eyes... this was what he was hoping for, but it was getting messier than he'd thought it would. Seeing their sister was something he thought would never happen... and also, so many bondeds had come together in such a short period of time. He wasn't sure how well the timid mare would cope with it; she was probably feeling cornered a bit. The stallion knew enough to know that she'd be difficult to get into the right situation to let her defenses down... but he also knew she was so painfully lonely. Guilt ate him away from the inside.
The sound of movement made him flick an ear, not altogether surprised that he had been found out. While Shattered's stress was keeping her from being particularly keen with her senses (and he was good at staying downwind), there were others who would have abilities beyond their own. A feline's perceptiveness was hard to elude, and when he looked up into the tree after the furred figure, he quirked a phantom smile with little feeling behind it. He was weary these days.
"A habit? Hmm... I think 'duty' is more appropriate in this sense." He turned his full attention back to Shatteredsky, not entirely sure what he planned to do if things got out of hand... coming out to meet her would destroy his entire plan. He needed her to take that leap of faith with one of the creatures before he could see her again.
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Shatteredsky had a posture that spoke volumes; she didn't like that it seemed she had become so easy to read. She was receeding farther into herself, getting lost in her fears and emotional turmoil. Somehow it had seemed like nothing could be worse than the feelings she'd been living with lately... but all this confusion and mixed emotion was throwing her for a loop. Her eyes rose to her sister with a hopeful glimmer, mentally chewing over Elegance's advice. It was so horribly fortunate to meet her own flesh and blood once more... so why was she trying to blame the other mare for what had happened? She was tired of feeling like it was her against the world.
Nodding solemly, she was about to speak when SilverFlash delivered a blow that left her shaken. Their mother was... alive? And she was living with her now? Her chest rose and fell a little harder, eyes flicking around the circle of unfamiliar faces. "I... she's... mother..." It was hard to breathe, part of her was so happy that words just couldn't describe it... and yet, she'd convinced herself long ago that her mother had died. Her sister spoke of this bonding like it had saved her life... if it was so great, why had no one come for her?! Her sister, even her own mother... no one had come to tell her. Did they forget their own homelands so quickly that they couldn't find her?
"Why not me?..." Out of fear that she'd over-speak her sorrows, she turned and bolted over a hill and down farther into the fields. She just had to think, had to breathe... had to swallow the thoughts that everyone had been living some better life without her, leaving her behind all alone...
