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the Rift

The matriarch's dark eyes twinkled with each new arrival—hope wasn't just in the orbs following the gathered equines, hope was in this, the coming-together. It was in the implication that the Rift was home to all of them, and that, despite the fact that they normally did not communicate with one another, for their home they were willing to cross borders they normally were incapable of crossing. Who had ever heard of a baleano peacefully lying in the shallows, after all?

Those gathered all agreed to help the sirens see the light, whether their affirmation was verbal or silent. From the corner of her eye, the matriarch noticed luminescent moss creeping towards the asulli; the great beast eyed it with an obvious mix of wariness and desire, a deep, low moan rumbling from his throat. It sounded tortured, but the matriarch simply smiled—had he truly been frightened, he would've fled. Asulli had learned long ago to run. Tentatively, he stretched his neck as far as it would, sniffing the encroaching moss.

"Let us go, then," she declared, beginning to turn to the west with purpose giving her aging body a sharper edge. However, she didn't get very far before the baleano thrashed upon the shore, and, heart skipping a beat—they were, after all, vicious killers—she turned back to it. "Yes?" she inquired softly. It took a moment, then its deep, guttural voice, magically altered for the moment to be comprehensible, sounded like the sighing of the ocean over the shore. "Take Malspira. We will wait here," it declared. The matriarch offered it a nod, before turning to lead the contingent of Rift creatures and equines towards the Siren's Summit—the fleet vulviper remained behind to gather some malspira, before scuttling up the leg of the sceletus, the last to leave the shore behind. It didn't seem to notice, for which the vulviper was grateful.

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