Even though it has been weeks now since Hymn’s return to Paradise, still Annubis has not gathered up the gumption to approach her with his apology. The return from the Inlet had been… silent. He would have gladly come for her sooner but feared to leave Promise in just the care of Izumi. Especially with Lucifer in the winds so to speak.

Now however, enough time has passed that the sterling stallion hopes whatever anger and disappointment she might feel towards him might have dissipated, if only enough for the apology on his tongue to sound as sincere as he means it to. She had every right to chew him up one side and down the other. She had every right to lay into him with cursing words and hate filled eyes. Despite how much the idea that she might no longer gaze at him with gentleness, he is ready to take the punishment if only to end the silence that has built between them since that fateful day.

Feeling more like a reprimanded pup with his tail between his legs, the sterling stallion pushes through the dense brush and into a small open clearing that Hymn seemed to favor. Golden ooids scan the forested jungle around him, searching for the flash of white or sunlight glinting off the darker patches of Hymn’s coat. Tentatively a gentle whicker rumbles from his lungs as ears rotate forward and backwards, caught between hope and shame.