» A New Frontier

Take just what I came for The once-prince wasn’t sure how he’d managed to find other gallant, kind, considerate beings gathered near him, because in between his valiant efforts he was still a bitter, rancorous soul – and there they were, proffering their assistance in finding his lost griffin. The lad was incapable of seeing their beliefs, their creeds extended towards him, for he’d always offered his willingly, gave a selfless promise, uttered oaths and convictions to them for the simplest of gestures or the grandest, most conniving of revenge, but never expected it to be granted in return. He wasn’t sure what to do or what to say, at a loss for words, but desperate, so blindingly desperate to have what he’d grasped and yearned and wished for so long – the youth stared at the ground first, listened to their voices, to the collective pleas and shouts, to the bestial outcry of Kisamoa, a beckoning to leave. He couldn’t yield without saying something, without hoping Wessex could point him in a singular direction, that mountains could call for other reasons besides something that used to be home. At the dragon mare’s insistence, he gave another small smile, a little sad, a minute gathering of his thoughts and feelings, fit to burst at the seams. “Thank you,” and the notion went towards Weaver as well (despite their strange ties and connections, perfectly capable of severing one another). His skull turned to Oizys as she started to leave, ushered back into the shadows, nodding at her in turn, calling out on a thread of notes he’d started once with Kiada, and wanted to extend towards all of them in turn. “Be careful.” Then he took a chance to glance out across the void again, looking for a slip of raven feathers, and seeing only the remnants of Kisamoa, Stygian and Tartarean, a piece of devil canvas, stroked with infinite layers (and he wanted to ensure all of them came apart, flayed, broken, destroyed), he and Orsino were just one more set of phantoms lingering away from the dust – back into their own abyss.

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