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 Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:16 pm
Aquila bit down on her lip briefly; it looked like this was the best chance she was going to get. “You should stay,” she blurted, turning to her sire urgently. “Riruy, I know you’re worried as hell, I am too, but I really think you should stay here. Your children need you, your father needs you, your herd needs you; heck, Bastet might even need you a little bit, but I don’t pretend to know her mind...” The gold-eyed mare trailed off with a sigh, trying to find more to say, hopefully more persuasive things.
“I can get other people on the hunt,” the Jala said after a moment, “I’ve got friends who’ll be willing, friends of friends and I can track down some more of my siblings to help out. We can handle looking for Sekkie, I promise; anything you could do, I can do or get somebody who owes me a favor to do but none of us can do what you do here. You’re important, riruy, you’re needed by other people that just Sekhmet and... And I think you should put them first because there’s more of them, and also like I’ve said because anyone can wander the world and look for a wayward filly, but only you can be Diego of Estavan’s herd.”
There; now she just had to hope to hell that firstly she’d made a good argument and secondly that Bastet didn’t jump in and tell him that he should stay searching after all. She doubted that the striped mare would do that, but she was on edge and so the worry was still there. She didn’t really know Bastet all that well, after all, it was hard to judge what she’d do; by all accounts the dark coated mare had a temper worse than her own.
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:24 pm
Bastet, however, was not about to ruin a good chance to get Diego off the chase, one who knew Sekhmet better probably had a better chance of finding her, not to mention a chance to share foal-watching duties with again. Plus, if Diego did come back, she could make more and longer trips out of the herdlands to ‘look for Sekhmet’.
After all, whilst Diego was almost indispensable to the running of the herd, she herself was only needed for the look of the thing, for properness and for people to comment on her beauty, and the beautiful couple she and Diego made, and the beautiful children they made. As an added bonus, these trips she hoped to get to make would not be improper. No. It couldn’t be improper to look for your missing child after all.
Bastet turned to Diego and gave him a smile. “I think Aquila has a point,” she had with a firm nod. “It’s not been easy on your father and brother in your absence, and now that there are other people looking, you could come home. The foals miss you, and so does the rest of your family, your friends... I know you want to find her, believe me I do, but I just think that it would be better if you left the seeking to others. You’re needed here.” There, and if guilting him didn’t work, nothing would.
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:36 pm
Diego gave a heavy sigh and nodded his head. Much to his disgust, they were right. “Alright,” he said after a moment with another sigh, “you’re the bosses, I’ll stay here. I don’t feel right giving up on finding Sekhmet, but I wouldn’t feel right leaving again either. I am needed here, and other people can look for Sekhmet. I’ll stay.” It was a hard decision, but a good one, he felt. Aquila would put as much passion and commitment into looking as he had, and he was confident that the small mare could indeed encourage others to look for the missing filly. It was best for him to remain here. It was.
“Well then,” the blue-eyed stallion gave a tight smile, “that’s sorted then. Shall we go and have a bite to eat before you head off again, ‘Quila?” He hoped she’d say yes. eager though he was for his daughter to go out and look for his missing daughter, he also wanted to get to just spend a bit of time with her.
It was too seldom these days that he saw the stocky mare, far too seldom. He missed her, and those of her siblings who were far away and didn’t manage to make it for visits all that often. Sometime he felt like they were hardly his children at all anymore, that they’d outgrown not only the need of him but the want of him too. It was not a very nice feeling at all, and he wasn’t looking forward to getting it from Andre and Sao; and of course Sekhmet, once she was found. if she was found.
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:43 pm
For just a moment, Aquila shared a tiny glance with Bastet which, for all its briefness, conveyed a sense of triumph and mutual congratulations. When the moment passed, the gold-coated mare turned back to her sire with a smile. “Yes,” she said with a nod, “I’d like that. I think I’ll head off before dark, but it’ll be nice to take a breather and get to catch up with everyone a bit... How about the har-hrang patch?”
At the elder two Nequus’ nod, Aquila grinned and turned in the vague direction of said bushes before setting off at a walk, Diego and Bastet beside her. Perhaps, the purple-winged Jala considered with another conspiratorial glance over at Bastet, she didn’t dislike the mare even a tiny bit. She could easily put up with being depressingly outshone in the looks department if she got such a good plotting-partner out of the deal.
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