I would honestly love you now,
But I would lovingly let you down.
His jaw clenched as he stumbled onto shore. Dampened ears lanced back at his poll, listening to the rush of the waves lapping at his ankles. Jabari had arrived. He knew this place by feeling alone. But a sense of dread filled his chest, begging him not to open his sea-stung eyes. So for a moment longer, he kept them clamped shut. Air rushed through his pink, whiskered nostrils. The humid island air filled his lungs and jolted his consciousness awake.
He was here in a physical sense, finally, after so long. But he had lived here, among the Lost Islands, in a mental state forever. The young stallion who'd never left Luthien until a war disrupted his family's peaceful way of life had abandoned everyone and everything he'd ever known. And he didn't have much to show for it.
He fretted over the questions that could come. He worried over running into familiar faces - or worse - not recognizing anyone at all. Jabari didn't know what he wanted. His heart still ached when he thought about his flame-licked sire. What would Shamwari do, in this instance? And his dam, Brienne?
Be brave.
The stallion swallowed hard, and opened his crystal blue eyes.
Stallion | Brienne x Shamwari | Chesnut Overo | 15.2 h| Photo © Carina Mailwald | © Vinyl |
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