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Date Posted: Monday, June 29, 01:31:12pm
Author: Vegas
Subject: we can drive it home
In reply to: Moonlight 's message, "Friend When All Else Is Gone" on Friday, June 26, 11:17:42pm

Down the hill he came as she rose up to him, and then he halted just before her, not permitting himself to come close enough to touch, poised there tail flagged and attention trained though he did not speak. She had to know he'd been nearby all along so really could he greet her as if he'd been absent? Vegas knew he was trying to rationalize this indifferent behavior because it rocked him to his core to behave as though she mattered not. He breathed in her scent, gaze searching her over just the same but making no further move...In his mind's eye played the way this might have gone, he could almost feel the warmth of her tightly stretched hide and the way it would have quivered beneath the subtlest grazing touch--but he made no such motion. Only regarded her before she brushed her muzzle against his own almost undetectably....

The ebony stallion turned his face away, gaze training on the horizon as if there was something he saw there as she continued on it the other direction to greet Battle. When the sound of her movement drew away from him enough he moved away, leaving the others as they were to descend into the valley. He walked at first, his manner not at all hurried...He wasn't retreating, only withdrawing...Then he moved beyond the willows that bordered the stream and the valley spread before him...For a moment our Vegas paused, nostrils quivering and body tensed with the same fury it had been in his youth, as though nothing could stand in the way of the things he desired...He seemed to remember, looking across their long time home, who he'd been before he'd destroyed himself--before realizing his abilities, squandering his relationship with Moonlight, making his dearest daughter hate him--before all of it. He was proud, furious, and strong, wicked of temper, a comic, and a Casanova....A smirk passed over his look, before it was gone again and he brushed away that thrill for another..lifting his fore from the pillowed clover and galloping across the valley, away from the others yes, but mostly towards something. A new chance to own who he had become.

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Replies:

Me and all I Stood For -- Battlecry Forever, Tuesday, July 07, 09:22:32pm
- Friend When All Else Is Gone -- Moonlight, Monday, July 27, 10:58:09pm
  - Don't Want to Lock Me Up Inside -- Battlecry Forever, Tuesday, July 28, 10:11:40pm
    - The Friend When All Else Is Gone -- Moonlight, Tuesday, August 11, 03:36:12pm
      - (OOC) -- Battle/Lorz, Friday, August 21, 08:47:54pm