I"M CHEWING THE BONES OF MY OWN REPRIEVE
DEATH BE MY DIGNITY
He wasn’t use to getting sympathy from others but it was nice knowing someone had his back, kinda anyways. She was even eager to hear whatever he had to say, which was a first for the grey stallion. No one really wanted to listen to him, even when he had left his homelands. Once a pariah always a pariah, but he was determined to change that. He’d keep his trap shut about the things in the shadows, he wouldn't tell a soul about them lest they turn on him like they always did. He didn’t want to frighten her away from him, didn’t want her to know about those ugly things that screamed and haunted each shadow.
So he gives her all his attention as she speaks and lets out a chuckle as she says that the horses from his homeland where foolish. She says their home is beautiful in breathless wonder and he lets himself look around at the surrounding terra. All he sees is a multitude of shadows and dark areas, courtesy of the jungles many plants. He calms himself and ignores the shadows and looks at the jungle. It is beautiful, full of different colors and abundant in life. He wants to enjoy this, he really does. The shadows make it hard though, but he persist anyways in his searching gaze. He hears Calypso begin to speak and turns his skull back towards her.
She talks of how her father had once been the ruler of the land they found themselves on. So she was from her and must have felt the need to return to her old home, return to something familiar even if it was empty. He feels for her, missing her parents and all. He himself never missed his parents, but sometimes he missed how they used to act before they started to ignore him. He has one or two memories of his dam nuzzling him as a colt, and he sometimes visits that memory despite his current hatred for her. Calypso seems sad now and Brick Master feels a stab of guilt in his chest at causing this by a simple question.
Before he can apologize though she changes the subject and inquires as to how he came to the islands. What did bring him here? Nothing really other than the screaming things in the shadows, but he can't tell her that. He’ll stick to the basic truth, omitting the part with the things.” I came here after a few years spent wandering my old homelands, me family didn’t want me there no more so I eventually just left. But the lands around my old home where barren and empty, but I heard whispered rumors of some islands to the north so with nothin to do I decided to go see if they were real and suprise suprise the islands where real. he paws the ground for emphasis at the isalnds being real, ” So what brought me here was a sort of banishment I guess?” It's the basic truth of how he ended up her. He didn’t tell her how no one from his homeland believed these islands existed, and how his swimming here could have been his death. Everyone from his homeland would certainly think he had died if they found out he had tried to swim to some islands that probably never existed.
He’s still new here though, so he assumes that Calypso knows more about the other territory leaders than he does. She’d know who was who and all that jazz. ” So Calypso, what do you know about the other leaders on the other islands. I don't know anything about them, don't even know if all the islands even have herds. I’d like for us to get at least a few allies, maybe even wander over to the other side of our island and see if anyones living there.”
BRiCK MASTeR
EXECUTE HEMLOCK PHILOSOPHY
POISON FILLS THE CUP OF THE CARPENTER
Male || 7 || Arabian || Dapple Grey || 15.2hh || Controlled by Free Rabies
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