A cool breeze wafted through the leaves of Lyden’s favorite willow as he stood beneath in an content slumber. Smells of the lake near him, the salty air around him and the strong whiffs of his mares consumed him. His life as he knew had had been turned upside down not only for himself but his mares as well and with some still not ready to forgive or whatever they needed to do Lyden began to drift away, A part of him knew that doing this was thee absolutely worst thing he could do but the constant ache he felt with having Skylar taken away, first by her own choice then stolen and taking his girls with her made him want to do absolutely nothing. However having the rest of his family is what kept the pale king going – even if most of them still seemed angry.

The soft rustle of the leaves allowed a unknown scent to sweep across Lyden forcing his nearly closed icy blue spheres to open immediately. That scent he knew, but couldn’t quite figure out how he remembered. Furrowing his invisible brow lyden set off going to his left disappearing into the pines just as he emerged from beneath the willow. Pale nostrils flare as the unknown yet oddly familiar scent gets stronger while the brute heads down the well-traveled dirt path. Perhaps it was a mare his son invited since he recently became co-lead and from Lyden could tell had been extremely busy.

Flicking his slender acoustics Lyden’s brain woke up enough to realize just as he heard the heavy foot falls of someone coming towards him that the scent was the peaks. Skylar smelt of it when she returned with the girls and it sent his heart racing praying it was her returning which caused him to move into an easy trot just as a dark spotted heavy set mare came into view. Slowing to a walk and then a halt Lyden huffed out. Why was a peak mare here now? Surely not to tell him they wanted another one of his mares and he wouldn’t have any say in the matter. Just at the thought made his blood boil and after flickering his ears backwards with a toss of his head Lyden moved forward with confidence trying to hide his fear.

Before getting too close his listeners went forward showing curiosity to the unknown mistress before pausing in-front of her. Lyden then dropped his head and nose to greet her silently and show he wasn’t here to fight ”hello I’m Lyden, leader of the forest” he paused trying to coax his unraveled nerves and racing heart to calm ”is there anything I can help you with dear?”