Wildflower Plateau
Wildflower Plateau is the sister-land to Brilliant Pampas, though the two have been separated since the Catastrophe. Wildflowers are this land’s specialty, and it sports more flowers than humankind has ever discovered. Every shape and size and color grows here, even throughout the harsher seasons. This land is in itself a rainbow, the trio of lakes at its core reflecting its beauty perfectly. Here or there, trees scatter shade across the landscape, completing the natural masterpiece.
This land is closed. No herds can live here.
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN.
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Posted on April 7, 2011 at 04:36:25 PM by JEHU
He is about to open his mouth, to stretch out his little teeth and tug a hair from his mothers thick tail when he hears her voice turn silly and mocking. Father always seemed quite amused and the sensation boils in the colt as easily as the large stallion too. Siegos had passed on his easy nature, the bay boy quite a trouble-maker like his mom could be in one of her moods. He is inches from success when the thunder of hooves is heard. He had often heard such a sound when his father would patrol and so at first he thinks nothing of it, but then he sees something he did not expect. A stallion, whom his father had once described accurately, who could only be the King Infection.
The boy whirls to face his charging adversary with a boy-pitched stallion cry - but that cry is cut short by the thrust of his fathers nose against his chest, the thick flesh and bone thud of Infections attack, and the bellowing warscream of his father. He had seen the hit fall on the side of his fathers head. He had seen how his eyes grew less focused, and yet more sharp and purposeful, when he spent that lapse of eternity staring at his two beloved family members. The white stripe on his face itched, something that he noticed occured when something bad was about to happen.
And then his father is towering high, higher than the other stallion, higher than his mother… it seemed he would scrape the clouds with his pawing and flailing hooves. He teeters and Jehu knows that this is simply the final death throes of his father. That glazing of his eyes had begun it and this would be the finish. He thought his father would die in a blaze of glory like a great missile shot from a rocket launcher. Obvious and brilliant. He was wrong. Of all things, Siegos had rarely been flashy. Awesome, but never flashy. No his death would be like a torpedo, a burst, a silent raging that goes unseen beneath the surface, and then the upending of water and enemy and sealife alike.
His sire falters and falls with his final moments passing too fast for Jehu to understand that he should beware of the King of the Chamber. He is momentarily blinded from Morbid Reason and her attempt to coax him near to her.
‘My Eveningstar, my son. For you.’ comes a whisper, so much like the one that he used when he tucked his son into the tall grasses near the patch of black eyed susan’s at night. For me. Siegos gave and gave, as he always had. He had given Jehu life, given Starlace peace from her debt to live with him as a family - and let her keep the boy she seemed to love far above his father.
And lucky for Jehu, he was the only one near enough to hear - he would tell his mother his fathers last words later. ‘She had loved me in the end, Rottenone. Loved me over you.’ before he saw the light leave - a final ‘fuck you’ to the stallion who had so loved the idea of his death. That was his ending, his torpedo explosion in the hull of Infection’s triumph. The painful and finalistic blow would crash upon the brow of an already dead warrior. Siegos, in his own way and mind, had won.
And then Morbid speaks. Morbid speaks and he draws behind his mother and the woman she seemed so happy to have seen before. She asks if he is finished, if he has done what he came to do, and Jehu holds no grudge for the cold way the mare considers the last few moments that now passed. He touches her, wedges himself between Starlace and her replacement the way any boy might if they suddenly understood why their father had died - and aimed to make sure it wasn’t in vain
THE BOY WHO LIVED
of the white knight and his queen; siegos x starlace
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