He was Right

Everything seemed to work against the crew, they had been wandering for days, they had walked past the cliff where they thought Lyo would be,
but there was not a trace. Mari felt the panic lurk in his chest day and night but would not let it rise into his head and especially not his lips,
he wanted to remain calm for everybody's sake. Sirius could barely be called conscious, more like a sleep-riding shell. They were unsure
wether his injury on his neck and throat caused him to turn mute or the state of his mind to be the reason their captain is now still lost.
Their horses were tired and felt like they aimlessly wander around in the cold. Mari made a circle all around the area where Lyo fell, to
estimate how far he could have come into each direction, but each additional day would make that circle larger. Splitting up was out of question.
"We are going to ride back up where we came from.... maybe He hoped we wait for him there, maybe he somehow made it back to that path.."

Mari said and tried to talk some life into the tired crew. Libertad absently stared into the sky when he could clearly make out a horse shape
showing up behind the snow. First he thought it was Lyo's golden horse Zlatobor who found his way back to the herd, but that face was too dark...
and the glitter far from simply being a shiny palomino. "Guys..." He stuttered and blinked "Guys....." slowly pointing towards the gold-diamond hototo.
All of the men stared at the mare who seemed to stand still, making sure she was seen..
From all the signs Mari hoped from heaven above he wouldnt have expected something this obvious and mind blowing. "He was right.." Mari collected the
reins to turn around "There really IS a golden Hototo.." 
"But ...we should focus on finding Lyo.." Nört scanned Mari's expression, what was that man up to!??!
"He brought us here to find THIS horse. Do YOU think he would leave this island without bringing it home? He wouldn't even leave if we found him dead or dying. " 
"Well in the first case he would not have much to oppose.." Libertad mumbled but was prepared to follow Mari.
"We are going to get that horse for him " Mari stared at each of them strictly. He knew Lyo would expect them to do what they came for, and have
faith that he would manage, that he's way too strong to be helpless all alone. 
Everything happened for a reason and this horse must have one damn big reason. 

The golden mare ran off as soon as she saw the men approaching and never let them close enough to reach.
Sirius had no good feeling at this...it was a Hototo that caused the accident...why would this Mare not lead them just further away from Lyo...
He looked back with a painful expression before he followed the others 



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Shattuckit, Nört, Sirius, Sven, Libertad, Silke, Svavelkis, Mari, Shiny © by the Cursed Pirate
Hototos by Jullelin