The Academy: For Hypatia ~~

Its quiet. Unnaturally so. The land had always seem to beat, from the inside, like the throbbing of a heartbeat. She stopped, strained, listened for the pulse. Nothing. Only silence, the sound of her own breathing, the rustling of her thighs as she moves forward with the long grasses scratching across her belly, and their silent whispers, almost as if they mocked her, speaking only words she couldn't understand.

Yet, she was happy. To be here. The academy was still like a home to her, even as it was now, like the ocean at calm before the storm. The sky must have been blood red this morning.

Magnolia wasnt sure when she came upon the Oracle, but the mare was bathed in the dying gold of the day, and it dappled her flesh with that light.

She stood next to her. Not in front of her, or behind. No, she respected her friend, and though the world insisted on changing, she herself would not. Not yet. She would cling to ideals for as long as sanity allowed it. And with that thought, she smiled, and was sure there was a cub bouncing somewhere near, though she was yet to see the flash of his fur.

"You have a chance to do good things now.", and the wind grabbed those words, causing her to pause for a moment, "Is it wanted you wanted?", and then, she fell silent, much like the moss covered land around her. A personal question, perhaps, but she worried (perhaps when it wasnt her place). There was a sincere concern for the Viper queen and the weight of a crown.

Venom doesnt take easily to everyone's body.

magnolia

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Healer of wolves

Elder of the Scholars

Sister to the Air