Desreal: this is how you stop a heart [ANY]

I've been afraid of changing
cause I've built my life around you
but time makes you bolder
children get older and I'm getting older too

take my love, take it down
climb a mountain and turn around
if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring it down

- Fleetwood Mac, "landslide"

It is terribly out of character for me to intentionally seek out a crowed but I did it. I made my best effort to fit in and be of some use in the crisis once I got my wits about me again. Simple good fortune left me on the very outskirts of Solira at the time of the burning and so though not unscathed my wounds were trivial and hardly worth the effort of healing. My skin burned for a few days time though no visible burning could be seen and I ached with every step I took. All such pain is gone from me now though and I look very much the same as I always have. Anyway, in the immediate aftermath when I could have made myself scarce and indeed was tempted to I stepped right into the thick of things to offer what aid I could. That being the wisdom gained with years, and I do have years on everyone dwelling by the sea their majesties not withstanding.

Well they would not listen; all I got out of it was a pitying look and not so much as a moment’s acknowledgement for my words wise though I still protest them to be. “Oh, no…” said they. “Keep out of the forest. It is too dangerous for Kurai lurks in the shadows there. If you must go to Desreal take an escort.” An escort indeed! An escort consisting of whom? Those who were not severely wounded were needed to help in mending the land and the water. What good could those of us with no touch of the element do by standing under foot and starving I ask you? Well, I refuse to starve, I refuse to be escorted about like a child and I refuse remain in the shadow of those who will not even listen to the suggestions of their elders. Kurai…bah…I have never seen reason to fear just one alone and I will not start now.

So I took to the forest against all advice and as a result I have managed to keep my belly comfortably full and myself safely in the shadows. That is not to say I have abandoned the shores, loyalty is not an overbearing peace of my nature but the puzzle that is the ocean waves is sure to draw me back in due time…just as soon as those with the power to replenish have managed to do so. It will not faze me in the slightest if they look on with scorn for my having left in their darkest hour I gave them what help I had to offer and they would not take it. Their fault not mine and I don’t care anyway.

Today is a dreary day in the forest as most such days are and having learned all that I can from studying roots in the shadows I have come out into a clearing to stretch my legs and see what else I might discover here before going “home”.

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Call me JOYA for that is my name. Watch out for my 16.2hh, pale DAPPLE GRAY coated person for I have the potential to be deadly. Trust what I know for I have spent TWELVE long years learning it. The blood of SUFFOLK PUNCH, SWEDISH ARDENNES, POITEVIN, BELGIAN HEAVY DRAFT, MUSTANG & ARABIAN runs in my veins. Do not ask the names of my parents for I remember them not. Look for me in SOLIRA under the heading of NEOPYTE, know my class as SCHOLAR within which I hold the rank of NONE and mark my element as UNLEARNED. Tie my heart strings to NONE until the day I die and trace my blood down to DAMOLISS & BRINE. My strings are pulled by the beautiful TZARRA who should be credited with both my creation and my words.