Island Resort

Some of the mares speak up, trying further to explain their ways but unable to do so without throwing insults. He realizes they have misunderstood his exile – it was merely a way to prohibit Bahamut from chasing them into the Gates, not an intent to kick them all of out of their homes. All he knew of the strange stallion was that he had tried to attack them, he did not know if he was even capable of speech or civility at the time that he had exiled him. He saw no reason to have such an exile anymore, but he hesitated to say so yet, as he was frustrated with the behavior of the herd members.

“When I exiled your stallion, all I knew of him is that he tried to viciously attack myself and Liberi with no prompting whatsoever. You are not exiled from your herd land, he was simply exiled from entering my kingdom, so that I could protect myself and my kingdom member from what I interpreted to be a crazed and vicious stallion. That is the only conclusion I could gather from a horse that would attack someone without speaking to them first. I apologize if you interpreted my entrance upon your lands as intruding, but I can’t bring myself to understand why you would immediately attack, and not first ask what my intentions were, when I was simply waiting calmly for you to arrive.”

He sighed. He understood if the stallion felt threatened, but even as a born fighter, he could not rationalize attacking someone with no questions asked, and he was even more confused as to how anyone else could justify it. If the stallion had greeted him with suspicion, he would have quickly explained himself and they could have continued with a civil conversation.

“When I was threatened, I turned to leave. You say I ‘refuse’ to greet you in your way, but the time for greetings has clearly passed. I have never before waited at a border, nor is it customary in any of the lands in these parts. Not even the Amazons, a kingdom where men are not allowed, would have reacted in this way when I entered their kingdom. I would not have done such a thing because I have never heard of such a thing. I would like to think these things can be solved with words, not with violence. I had come merely to offer you friendship and protection, and you attacked me. What was I supposed to think?” With that, he turns to Liberi, who seems to have more of a knack for diplomacy than he did, trying his best to sympathize with this stallion, but still quite in shock that they had been attacked.