I would honestly love you now,
But I would lovingly let you down.
His heart raced in his chest as he looked at her. Calypso was different, something was certainly off, but those wild ocean eyes remained the same. A glimmer of hope churned in his gut when she looked at him, but the fondness he could once discern in her blue stare was gone. Instead, she looked at him without any sort of recognition at all. He stood silent, dumbfounded, in the company of his former lover and some strange stallion for who knows how long, trying to process just what was happening.
Jabari had so many questions. Clearly she had left the islands after he did. But why? Did she go looking for Caesisus? Where was their daughter, Demeter? But his pink lips never parted. He had no right to demand answers from her. Not after what he'd done... Not after he'd abandoned her.
He listened as she defiantly addressed the cream-colored stud, who seemed equally as annoyed with Jabari's presence as he was about his. The stallion did not seem familiar in any way to Jabari, but clearly he too, thought he had a connection to Calypso.
The painted stallion's heart still jolted in his chest, but his mind was too slow to find answers. He snorted once in frustration, but tried to push his own feelings of longing and loneliness aside and focus on what was rational instead. The other stud suggested the Peak and Jabari's jaws clenched. In reality, this wasn't a terrible idea. She would be safe there. The last thing Jabari wanted to do was reveal anything that could hurt Calypso, but he also didn't want her to be driven back to wherever the hell this stallion lived.
"She once lived in Paradise. I freed her. But if Rougaru knows she's back..." His blue eyes flitted to stare sternly at the other stallion. "He is bound to come looking for her."
Jabari swallowed hard and looked at Calpyso again, pain and guilt so apparent across his features. "You should follow him there." He offered, not expecting much in response. "It's not safe out here."
Stallion | Brienne x Shamwari | Chesnut Overo | 15.2 h| Photo © Carina Mailwald | © Vinyl |
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