red roan sabino . badger face . fifteen and three . eight years . array x ephah
Somewhere on her journey, she had lost what it had meant to be her father’s daughter.
Once a great man, regarded amongst the hoards, he had disappeared into nothingness, and she had felt the sadness that a daughter should feel. Guts wrenched and tears fell- she had been so young. Robbed of her innocence at the words of her mother, a bitter woman made tender by the death of her lover.
She had risen from the ocean, as all those before her had, painted in salt and stained by the sea. She had returned, quietly dipping under the night sky and twisting her back to the woods, as if she could see her family in the distance.
Out across the waters, bucking under the distant winds like untamed horses.
A sweet smile is tempted to her lips, and her thoughts are interrupted by the godless splashing of a gangly colt, not yet grown into his legs.
Shaking and twisting, his black and white skin is made blacker by the water, and his words are greeted by the quiet, golden stare of the red and white woman. “
Oh.” Like she was dragged out of her thoughts and memories. “
Asra.” Such a soft, little name given to her by such a devastating woman.
Ephah had known nothing but power during her life.
Oh, how her father had loved her.
the windswept daughter of the cove