She’s never interacted well with women. Even with her own sisters, Earthshine was removed. All her time as a child was spent running around with the boys. Ivan was a nice young man, and he’d had all sorts of siblings. The odd dark mare had only ever clicked around with his brothers, and that made all the sense in the world to her. There seemed to be a gap with the way she treated the women in her life. They all seemed to be so clingy, so overbearing… maybe that was why she was so removed. The mare couldn’t hold onto it very well. Her mother had spent all her time pining after her father, so she didn’t even count. It was her own sisters that wanted Earthshine to be the perfect little doll… she was the pretest, behind Anthem after all.

It didn’t work like that. She was the tomboy of the group, always rolling around and exploring. The time on her own made time pass strangely. Everything was so strange to her. The mare had little concept of forgetting, but sometimes she lost track of the most key things about life. This was the girl that could forget she had a voice at all, yet be so good at using it when she absolutely had to. This was the girl that could forget that she had any pull on the world around her, yet stand up and fight for what she wanted if she wanted it badly enough.

Solgar asks a question she couldn’t say she was ready for. Earthshine takes a long pause, then another. Her voice hasn’t left her this time, but it takes a moment to find. With a breath large enough to support a yell, she speaks at only a conversational level. “I didn’t look.” They’re words that hang in the air before her face for a long moment before trailing away on the breeze. Ivan was gone, and that was that. She wouldn’t fret and she wouldn’t worry so much longer… if he’d been swallowed up by a whale, he’d been swallowed up. Earthshine’s mourning period for her best friend was over, at least outwardly. She would mourn now for her reign while building a new one behind her dark eyes.