The Lost Islands
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Making love to a m e m o r y




"If Love himself weep, shall not lovers weep,
learning from what sad cause he pours his tears?
Love hears his ladies crying their distress,
showing forth bitter sorrow through their eyes
because villainous Death has worked its cruel
destructive art upon a gentle heart,
and laid waste all that earth can find to praise
in a gracious lady, save her chastity."


The Bay wasn't all that different from the Inlet. Like its neighbor, the Bay had its own pebble beach and a surrounding cove of cold, dark churning seawater. The terrain was hardly flat, the earth here was unyielding and the vegetation was rough. Peaks from the distant mountains jutted into the sky along the horizon. The Bay was quite beautiful when the sun was shining, but it still gave off a grizzly theme -- this place was not for the weak.

The scents of a robust herd were easy to detect in the howling winds, and Macabre's nostrils fared as she searched for the semi-familiar smell of Diamant. She'd catch hints of what she thought could be him as the minutes passed and the pair continued to press further into the territory, but the chestnut mare second guessed herself. In truth, she did not know the great black stallion very well. When they had first met, he was merely a colt, an energetic little thing who terrorized the Peak alongside Argento. But Macabre's long history of comings and goings from the Peak kept her from watching the lanky boy grow up into the stallion she had met again on Tinuvel some months ago. Despite how little they actually interacted, Macabre felt drawn to him. He was Jetta's and Inka's kin after all, and Inka's clan was the closest thing to a family she's had on the isles. It meant something to her that he was the sire of their strong-willed, healthy daughter. And it was important to her that he meet the miracle they created together.

So when the stallion's dark mass of a body appeared along the treeline, his amber eyes transfixed on her, a chill ran down the length of her spine. She studied him intently, frozen in place with her petite head held high over her withers as he approached. He seemed surprised to find her here, if not somewhat on edge or perturbed, but Macabre pushed past that and offered the stallion a genuinely happy and kind smile. "Hello Diamant." She said quietly, nickering to him warmly. "I was hoping I'd find you here." The small mare, who was dwarfed in size by her stallion companion, bobbed her head eagerly as he spoke. "It is good to see you too."

Wasp stood idly alongside her mother, the filly's amber eyes matching that of her sire's. It was easy for the filly to decipher that this was who her mother was so keen on finding, even before his name slipped from her whiskered lips. Wasp sized him up from the viewpoint of her mother's shoulder. Her jaws churned mechanically as she tried to settle on what she thought of him and this whole situation, but her feelings were too complex to pick apart just yet. "I'm your daughter." Wasp said with a wily sass in her tone, taking a slender dark foreleg and snapping it to the ground in a quick quip.

Macabre's dark eyes shot from her daughter to Diamant's quickly in surprise. She snorted at Wasp, and reached to nip her along her topline before looking back at Diamant to gauge his reaction. She allowed a heavy sigh to seep through her cracked lips. "It's true. This is Wasp, our daughter." She said, offering him a sheepish grin, but the mare couldn't hold his gaze any longer. "It was... after the last time I saw you here on Tinuvel. I thought you deserved to know."




"Hear then how Love paid homeage to this lady;
I saw him weeping there in human form,
observing the stilled image of her grace;
and more than once he raised his eyes toward Heaven,
where that sweet soul already had its home,
which once, on earth, had worn enchanting flesh."


Macabre | 12 | Mare | Mustang X Morgan | 14.2 HH | flaxen chestnut | © Vinyl




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