starry eyed girl of paradise
A soft smile traces her lips as she lovingly watches her daughter sleep, curled up in a soft patch of grass beneath a stand of coconut palms. The dark green fronds flutter in the breeze, but it does not stir Ella from her slumber. With a sigh she turns her brilliant bicolored eyes away from her daughter and into the shadows. It has been relatively quiet despite the whispers of war, she snorts she had no intention of going to a war forged in pride and ignorance. An ignorance like that is poison to the soul, it consumes everyone around it and they all get drunk off of the fear and stupidity it offers.
Movement in the shadows draws her attention, and when he finally appears from the shadows she is surprised to see the friendly face of Jabari. She swallows hard, she would be a fool if she didn't admit that she was happy to see him here. She had heard whispers of Celestria's captive but had never dug deeper asking questions or prying, she had just left it at that.
"Jabari, you are here?" she asks as she moves away from her daughter as to not disturb her slumber, and ever closer so they can speak privately.
She tilts her delicately chiseled crown, her bicolored eyes slide over his painted body, taking notice the sheen of his coat and strong muscles that ripple beneath his chestnut and white coat. Her brow furrow as she notices the fresh scrapes on his coat.
"What happened?" another question falls from her lips, as she dares to reach her muzzle to brush them across the blemishes.
She steps back and eyes him curiously with her bicolored eyes, one starkly blue and the other a sea green.