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Ice_Dragon_Demon
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 Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 8:35 pm
 They were still reeling from the loss and things were at a standstill. Progress was slow as Tenar tried to lead what little was left of the former herd. There were many though who weren't really helping. It was a communal effort, his mother Azha for instance was holding together the traditions and trying in her own was as well to bring everyone together. His brother seemed to spend more time with his own mother after losing both parents. Tenar was the oldest of Arei's children still around and as such it was his duty to protect the herd. He at least had some help, the oldest remaining family and ironically they had just produced six more daughters along with their grandchild having foals of his own as well. Somehow they were still able to help despite the sudden extra work load. Tenar was grateful for it. Many of the leaders who had been helping had simply vanished to their own tasks as well. Tenar's own son Arch was grown and running a herd all his own. Tenar was proud of his son though he missed him.
Right now though was not the time to dwell on such things, The herd was still. Tenar glanced around most were busy as they could be however. Tear spotted a familiar blue form. His sister's granddaughter, doing... What was she doing?
"Nephele," he called approaching.
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Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 10:26 pm
 Miyu was pretty worn out from having had six new little fillies recently, and taking good care of them, but she'd pulled off a very similar feat before, after her first pregnancy, which had yielded five foals. Six foals wouldn't break her. Especially the little darlings she and Yue happily raised, and with their grandson Equinox, and his mate, Emiko, who had three little ones of their own, meaning that the nine foals their family was raising could play together, with fewer adults supervising. Plus, there was also Aryanna and Yukito around, both willing to babysit the newest fillies in the family. Six fillies was most emphatically not a problem for Miyu and Yue to deal with.
What was a problem was the disappearance well over a dozen moons ago of Arei and most of her family, removing both the leadership, and leaving behind a shattered family, trying to pick up the pieces.
Miyu and Yue had stepped up to help lead the herd, and to reshape it, but it was costing them a great deal of time and energy to do so, which, for Miyu and Yue, added poorly to the issue of the newest additions to their family. Quite frankly, Tenar, Yasmin, Miyu, and Yue were stretched pretty thin, and needed everyone to help contribute to the rebuilding of the herd. No one could really afford to be idle. Especially with talks of one day building a vast library and educational complex that they would fill themselves with all kinds of knowledge collected from across this world.
As it was, Miyu had been planning on meeting with Tenar to discuss some of the logistics, and was running quite late. She hurried, blue silks fluttering about her person, leaving behind a trail of the thick perfume of cereus blossoms. She'd have to apologize to the gentle-natured Arcturus-Alcor stallion. Even if the Arcturus mare was terribly busy, it was still up to her to uphold her obligations to the herd.
However, as she trotted into the meeting place, she could see Tenar's attention devoted to one of his family members, a mare known as Nephele. Nephele was settled beside a stream, gazing into the depths of the pool, paying little attention to anything else. Nothing seemed so important that it could reasonably distract so royal a princess as Nephele. Even if...even if...even if the family from whom she claimed such distinguished lineage and right were, for the most part, missing, gone without a trace.
Underneath her proud demeanor, Nephele was worried. After the sudden disappearance of so large a proportion of the herd, she'd spent several moons, whether as a river-dark otter, or as a midnight swan, searching for her lost family. Unlike Tenar and the rest, Nephele wasn't as concerned about rebuilding. There was no real need to rebuild. Once Nephele found Arei and the rest, things could go back to normal, Nephele would be the one who found her missing family, and things would be all right once again. There was no reason to work so hard to reshape the herd.
But, as the moons dragged on, Nephele had found it hard to keep going. At long last, she had come to terms with the idea that the Lost Ones, as she'd come to think of them, were gone, and never coming back.
But that had left Nephele at a total loss for any sense of her future. If the Moonlight and the line of Arei were not present and as they once were, what did that leave Nephele, a princess of two dynasties as? The dilemma consumed her mind as she meditated on the depths of the pool, willing the rippling water to give her the answers she sought.
Then, she heard Tenar behind her, and, regretfully, royal princess or no, she turned around. Her great-uncle was a herd leader now, on par with his missing mother Arei, and even if his roots were not so noble as Nephele, he was still, in his own way, a king, and born closer to leadership than Nephele, who was, at best, only a great-granddaughter to herd leaders, and it was appropriate for a princess to listen to a king.Ice_Dragon_Demon Yes. Nephele's a bit of a spoiled royal brat. That's why she's being dragged into this kind of plot. So she'll be the Lady of the Lake one day. A legend in her own right, even if she's not a queen.
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