I am the razor in the hands of your heart;
And I am the razor in the hands of God.
Evaline watched with distaste as the stallion's eager expression began to melt away into something more like disappointment. She scoffed at him in the form of a snort, and rolled her wide brown eyes with half interest. "Sorry to disappoint." She blurted out with the flick of her blonde tail and anxious stomp of a front hoof. Nevertheless, the golden mare committed the stallion's scent to memory as the breeze brought it her way. She assumed he was the one in charge now. It wasn't hard to figure out, given there weren't any other bodies lying around.
For a second, Evaline wondered what became of the rest of Valve's herd. Priya, mostly. But there were a few other stragglers. Perhaps they departed too. Her one good ear pricked forward when the stallion mentioned how he found the Dunes. The palomino mare grit her teeth and clenched her jaw as she considered this. It panged her to see the Dunes so devoid of life and energy. In some ways, it made it easier for Evlaine to see the terrain like this, the opposite of what Valve had created during her tenure. But even with Valve's departure, Evaline had come to care for the harsh landscape in a way that made it tough to see it all in such disarray. She surveyed the quiet, sloping hills of hot sand for a few seconds longer, a few rogue strands of bleached mane battering against her neck, and temporarily casting over her view. She sighs deeply and sadly, her barrel rising and falling, as she turned her attention back to the stallion standing before her.
"So this Favala, is she real? Or just something you..." Evaline hesitates a moment as she tries to find the right word. "Worship?" That's it. She had very little interest in his answer, but she would need to rest here a while in order to gather the strength to return to Luthien.
"I'm Evaline by the way." She adds, shifting her weight over her hips and hind legs. "I used to live here. A lifetime ago."
17 | Arabian cross |14.2 | Palomino | Mother of Kasabian, Shamwari, Vita Nova, Paradiso, Ruxin & Talya | Vinyl |