let them see your black heart, baby

[Sage River Lykoi]

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Look, look, I made it?! Did we determine they lived in a cave? Also I'd assumed they'd been home but idk. Can fix anything if needed(for the hug, too!). Sage does speed-watercoloring... and I hope horses can eat beets. That is all. xD WC: 688

It was true Sage had allowed her pixie sister to fly away like the little bird she was, leaving Sage alone to her arts and thoughts. The tanned girl was not sad for this, though, for she was in that wonderful state of mind that left her dazed and curious, but still alert and creative. The paintbrush flew, like China had, in whichever direction it pleased, and the scene was beginning to look marvelous.

Perhaps ten minutes later, the end result was a brightly colored springtime landscape, with a few small animals doodled in. Sage stood back and smiled; her watercolor style may have been messy and simple, but it pleased the girl, and so she set it out to dry. Then, with a sigh of content satisfaction, she stood and brushed off the artfully tattered hide leather skirt around her slim hips. Yellow eyes glanced about before coming to a rest on her handmade bag which she scooped up in a graceful motion. Then, with a giggle to herself as she did it, the girl turned abruptly about-face, marching out of their cozy little home with a grin on her face. Sage walked stiff-legged and cheesy-grinned several feet out of the doorway before resuming a normal posture, sending a swift and quiet call out for Lennon.

His footsteps came around from behind her, and it was mere moments before the cream-colored stallions large, handsome head was looming beside her own. Another smile, and the girl reached into her bag, producing a bright red beet for her horse friend. He took it happily, and as he did so the girl climbed up onto his back, setting off into the wilderness, following her sisters familiar scent, and the added scent of the girls' favorite herb.

The smell grew stronger, and Sage leaned into it, know that her beloved sister would be nearby, now. Chocolate ears twitched and turned as she picked up the sudden sound of voices in the near distance. Not just a female one, but a male voice as well? She couldn't be sure, but she urged Lennon towards it nonetheless, and he responded with little provocation.

Soon enough into her line of view came her silvery songbird sister, and Sage's smile broadened, focusing on the smoke-clouded girl as she approached before her drowsy yellow eyes fluttered to rest on the other figure there. Immediately, her expression tensed, eyes widening, brows furrowing, and even a small gasp escaping from her mouth, though it hardly traveled. She blinked several times, glancing back and forth from China to the dark, salt-and-pepper man. No, she thought, he wouldn't come here... would he?

Puzzled, she dismounted, patting Lennon in dismissal and cautiously nearing the thin, lanky boy before her, so handsome but so gaunt. Sage's golden-yellow eyes met his amber ones, just a few shades darker; just like his personality, his appearance, his aura. Just a few shades darker than her, he was. It was strange to see him here; it felt out of place, but then the girl realized that maybe he would belong here more than they did. Still, why would he want to be here? She couldn't figure it out, before realizing that he might not even be here to live, but to visit. Was that it? Was he here, to see them? The girl swallowed, managing at first only to breathe his name between them.

"Micah..." After a moment more of silence, she managed something more. "What are you doing here...?"

She wanted to hug him, to embrace him, to share her warmth, her energy, her food and everything else with him, but would he want it? Sage quickly decided that she wanted it more than enough for both of them, and she glided to her brother, pulling him into a soft and gentle hug that tightened as she felt the bones beneath his skin and lack of muscle or tone. She had missed him. Sage nearly shed a tear for his poor form, his far too strange face, but she wouldn't, yet.