Thicker Than Water | { Private }

The storm clouds loomed overhead as the pale mare stared into the sky, feeling an unsettling feeling grow in her stomach. Something was wrong... Very wrong... Her cream eyes travelled to the small filly at her side fast asleep. Nothing had ever seemed to phase or trouble her daughter and the look she sometimes carried in her eyes made Miyra stirr with anxiety. Perhaps she would leave them, as her son had but the alterior option struck terror in her heart. Alternatively, she could become exactly what Koma had wanted Kiro to be... What her husband had tried to shape their son into was something Miyra couldn't allow herself to think too much about. It was for their own good, to protect themself and there was no other way to achieve it.
The small filly suddenly perked awake beside her, staring into the distance so quickly it was as if she had never been asleep. "What is it.. Darling?" Miyra asked hesitantly trying to look in the direction Rika's attention was focused to. "Brother's back" the amber eyed filly sneered with a smirk and Miyra could indeed see a figure in the distance, heading in the opposite direction.

Kiro had come to visit his mother, and another filly he had met not long ago but his path was interrupted. He heard the cries of a small buckskin filly after he had passed the land bridge and was trotting in their direction, ears perked forwards strongly. He reached them panting lightly, searching the filly for injury but it was not herself she was crying out for. No, there was a mare beside her laying limply on the floor ridden with exhaustion. "What happened?" The young colt questioned, searching the ground below. "Ma'am? Are you in bad condition?" His ear twisted sideways with the sound of cantering hooves, finding his younger sister had joined them and his mother trailing close behind. "Kiro!" Miyra called out, eyes going wide as she saw the mare at their feet and the filly beside her. "S-sister..." She let out a gasped breath and kneeled beside her with incredulous eyes.

Miyra stretched her neck down to her sister, touching her muzzle to hers when she woke up. When her sister spoke of her children, the mare glanced to her side and smiled faintly but there was something else in her expresion- Fear. "Outsiders don't belong here" the little buckskin filly sneered at the two, glaring at the tired face near her mother and then the other filly in their presence. She stepped forward from behind her mother and raised an eyebrow "Besides, this one looks like she won't even make it a couple of steps without falling over again!". When Rika had finished speaking Kiro quickly bared his teeth at her with a deep frown "Hold your tongue!" he snapped and bit her on the flank causing her to squeal and kick out at him. "Children..." Miyra added a little quietly, clearly not capable of maintaining any control of the two. "This is your aunt, Meira..." the mare's eyes travelled to the filly with a gentle smile, "and her daughter, your cousin". At that moment Kiro stepped forward and bowed his head "Nice to meet you ma'am" he greeted and then glanced to his mother who was looking around nervously... He knew exactly what that meant. "Could you help my sister and I carry some water to your mother please? It might do her good.." he nodded at Akira, turning so the scar on his eye was visible but, as he noticed, he made a quick effort to cover it with his fringe. "It's just over there, not too far.." the young colt's eyes shot a quick look at Rika, who returned him a defiant look but complied anyway.