She abandoned the rose, leaving it to take root in the cold, dead earth beside the Spire and though part of the blighted beast wished to dance upon the loathsome weed and scatter its gaudy petals across the snow like blood from a beating heart, something worse, far worse, a violence, a darkness, a cruel, raging pain else drew him after otter with a ringing equine cry. Mere rose petals were nothing compared to his hateful, aching, desperate desire to shatter the pristine white of Deepfrost's mantle with truest liquid crimson splashed in elegant arcs across the snow.
And no blood would suffice so well as that of the otter whose very presence tore at his heart with such terrible agony, the darkness whispering sweet promises in his mind that her death would bring a surcease of the pain for an hour, a minute, a fraction of a moment more than he had known since the snows had fallen across the land in their colorless funereal shroud.
He ignored the flower, rising up on powerful haunches to lash out with his forehooves, blunt and hard and thick enough to crush an otter's skull--
In his rage he had forgotten the eagle, assumed it out of the fight after thesweet, so sweet, sweet as death impact of hoof against feathery, hollow-boned body. Deimos's divebomb struck true, dirt and grit lashing against large, delicate equine eyes and turning Jigano's attack aside as the horse twisted and bucked wildly out around him, shaking his head in a paroxysm of pain and frustration as he tried to rid himself of the dust that watered his vision to near-blindness.
Jigano bucks and lashes out blindly while trying to clear his eyes!
And no blood would suffice so well as that of the otter whose very presence tore at his heart with such terrible agony, the darkness whispering sweet promises in his mind that her death would bring a surcease of the pain for an hour, a minute, a fraction of a moment more than he had known since the snows had fallen across the land in their colorless funereal shroud.
He ignored the flower, rising up on powerful haunches to lash out with his forehooves, blunt and hard and thick enough to crush an otter's skull--
In his rage he had forgotten the eagle, assumed it out of the fight after the
Jigano bucks and lashes out blindly while trying to clear his eyes!
