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WAKER

[ Sorry for taking so long to respond... <3 @Roscorro @Rixen ]

As the striped, steel-colored stallion returns your smile, you realize a handful of things: that you're glad they're here with you, that you've been terribly lonely since coming to the Rift, and that, largely, it's of your own doing. You've spent so much time flying, pushing yourself to your limits under the scorching sun, trying to find.. something; a way back, answers, peace, Taivas... It's just been you and the vast, open sky, where it's so easy to lose sight of everything else.

Carefully, you tuck this knowledge away. Best not to think of it now, when you've finally found yourself in unexpected company.

Roscorro seems happy to see the steel one, and you are, too; the large, dragon-like stallion repeats his name, and any worry you felt at having forgotten Steel's name is quickly erased when he takes it in stride. He is Rixen, and when you hear it, you think, ah, of course; you've heard it before, after all. You watch him silently as he returns Roscorro's greeting. Smiles come easy to him. You like that. You think the Rift needs more smiles.

You know that you need more smiles.

So you let one slowly curve your lips again, just a small thing, warmth in your eyes as you look at your two stranger-friends. After all that has happened, there's no way you're going to label them as less, but you still don't know them.

"Homesickness," you find yourself replying bluntly to Rixen's question. Although things seem less hopeless now that you're surrounded by friends, you can't just forget about the whole thing, and your gaze travels out across the mountain's slope again. "I come from a vast plain, bordered by mountains to the northwest. They're nothing like these mountains, and yet, sort of the same..." You trail off, hating how uncertain you are all of a sudden, how this alien place has turned you into a shy, hesitating creature. You'd never been the most outspoken back home, but you'd been easy and secure in your own skin and mind. You've lost that sense of peace.

"Where did you come from..?" you ask, eyeing them both with curiosity.