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27th of Winter, 515 AV
morning
Though he had come by Merevaika's pavilion every morning, early, early in the day ever since he had first met his Tachi-Sky, looking from afar at a half-asleep horse was not the same as meeting her, being near, helping.
This day he actually got to do something. There was an excitement in his bones like a buzzing that contrasted roughly against the usual sleepiness of walking through life untouched, unfeeling. Kyo found himself walked quickly with long strides towards his destination.
Lightning was with him because Lightning was always with him these days. At first he had thought it was because Ramsay wanted her to protect him from other Drykas, and he was certain that was part of it... but now he wasn't so sure that she wasn't there to also protect him from himself. From that emptiness inside.
Maybe Ramsay had felt it, what had been inside Kyo, that pointlessness of doing anything, that feeling of doing things just to do them and not because he wanted to-- of going through the motions and pretending to be okay. But Ramsay need not worry about it any longer. Kyo had his Strider-horse now, and that was something that he could be for. That he could live for. Much as he had been, had lived once, for his boy.
He knew Sky didn't like the smell of dogs and so when they got to the camp he clicked his tongue and motioned go, and Lightning gave him a look before prancing off to find Merevaika's pups to socialize with. At least he had left Pack at home this time; knowing the puppy, he would have ran right into Tachi's feet again and set her off, and that was not what Kyo wanted.
He wanted her to be like how he felt right now.
Seeing the Strider standing off in the back made the excitement inside die down to something more level, more like peace, and he signed it to the horse, calm, happy greeting friend-sister, before coming further into camp and asking aloud, "Merevaika? Hello? I Kyo? I come to help train Sky."
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morning
Though he had come by Merevaika's pavilion every morning, early, early in the day ever since he had first met his Tachi-Sky, looking from afar at a half-asleep horse was not the same as meeting her, being near, helping.
This day he actually got to do something. There was an excitement in his bones like a buzzing that contrasted roughly against the usual sleepiness of walking through life untouched, unfeeling. Kyo found himself walked quickly with long strides towards his destination.
Lightning was with him because Lightning was always with him these days. At first he had thought it was because Ramsay wanted her to protect him from other Drykas, and he was certain that was part of it... but now he wasn't so sure that she wasn't there to also protect him from himself. From that emptiness inside.
Maybe Ramsay had felt it, what had been inside Kyo, that pointlessness of doing anything, that feeling of doing things just to do them and not because he wanted to-- of going through the motions and pretending to be okay. But Ramsay need not worry about it any longer. Kyo had his Strider-horse now, and that was something that he could be for. That he could live for. Much as he had been, had lived once, for his boy.
He knew Sky didn't like the smell of dogs and so when they got to the camp he clicked his tongue and motioned go, and Lightning gave him a look before prancing off to find Merevaika's pups to socialize with. At least he had left Pack at home this time; knowing the puppy, he would have ran right into Tachi's feet again and set her off, and that was not what Kyo wanted.
He wanted her to be like how he felt right now.
Seeing the Strider standing off in the back made the excitement inside die down to something more level, more like peace, and he signed it to the horse, calm, happy greeting friend-sister, before coming further into camp and asking aloud, "Merevaika? Hello? I Kyo? I come to help train Sky."
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"Speaking in Common"
"And in Vani{descriptors}"
"And in Tukant [implications, descriptors]"
"And in Pavi" grassland sign
