Nearly everything on Salem would take some getting used to. From the heat and the dry air, to the wickedly cold nights. To even the stale taste of the water here, as there are no rushing current to keep it cool and fresh. The gray mare winces slightly as she drinks from the pool now, reminded of its bland and somewhat warm taste. It would take a while for her to disassociate the cool, refreshing gulps she was used to having in other parts of the isles. Her distaste is fleeting today, however, because Vita Nova has far more exciting things on her mind.
She can't stop smiling as she looks at her sister standing here right next to her. It made her heart flutter in her chest with joy. But it also made her long for the years she'd spent back in the Prairie. Life had been easier then, when they were young and Valentine was still here. "I missed you too! Nova exclaimed exuberantly, prancing in place before nickering to her sister to follow her to the shade. "So where are you staying while you're here?"
When Oswin mentions she'd left the islands with their father and her mother, both ear lobes flick forward at attention. "You were with the herd? When they left?" She stares at Oswin hard now as she processes this information. "Where did they go? I came back and hoped to see father but everyone was already gone."
Nova was still trying to understand all this, why his father would leave with some of the herd but not all of them. She knew deep down Evaline and her had been gone too long. Perhaps Valentine had worried about them, maybe he tried to find them but gave up. Either way, she knew she couldn't blame him for moving on. She couldn't help it if she missed him, though.
As Owsin moved the conversation on to other topics, Nova tried her best not to let all the weird feelings it drug up tarnish to the reunion they were having. She listened keenly as Oswin described what happened between her mother and this mystery brother when it all seemed to click. She remembers when Nephilim told her of his run-in with Valentine and how it didn't go well. He had never mentioned his mother lived there though. Could this be someone else? "Is his name Nephilim?" She finds herself blurting out, her pale blue eyes studying Oswin as she anxiously awaits an answer.
When her sister brings up a boy, Nova snorts but smiles slyly. "I followed a stallion named Koray here, but he's the worst." She said with the quick flick of her tail. "He's spoiled and ungrateful and selfish. All he cares about is himself." She spat. "But his family is so nice. His father, Orhan, reminds me a little bit of dad." Nova didn't want to tell her about how she felt for Nephilim, not until she knew if he was the one she was looking for. She didn't want Oswin to know how terrible he had made her feel, and that he was the real reason why she followed someone as awful as Koray home just so she could have some sort of semblance of a family again.
4 | Mare | Evaline x Valentine | Smoky Back Splash | 15 hh | © Vinyl |
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