Was I left behind?
Tell me, tell me I survived.
The dry desert wind casts the pebble-like sand to dance in a frenzy, stinging my legs and knees as it whips around my body. But still I stood, my ears preemptively lace flat against my poll, and my hardened gaze surveying the blurry distance for the likes of Cain. He responds promptly to my call. And as he approaches, my head rises high above my withers. I stare down my nose at the two-toned brute, sizing him up as my muscles bunch instinctively under my sleek copper hide.
The stallion greets me in a friendly tone, but my stony exterior hardly returns the favor. "Cain." I bark, my brown-eyed gaze tightening into slits. "Tell me. When we met on the Crossing, did you already know my daughters?" I demand, snorting and then pawing feverishly at the sand beneath my hooves. "They described an abusive, manipulative stallion much different than the one I thought I met. But maybe I was being played all along, as well."
I wait now, gauging his response, before I snort again and bare my teeth at the stallion. "I want to see her. Now."
How Cain responds to this will set the tone for what comes next. I don't expect the stallion to take kindly to my words, given my brash entrance into his home. But I don't care about etiquette - not today, not when my daughters' safety and well-being is at stake. Not after what Everglow and Vihaan described about him. I'm ready to fight my way out of the Desert, with Vihaan at my side, if need be.
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