Solira: The Ocean: this is how you stop a heart [FOR ANYONE]

I've been afraid of changing
cause I've built my life around you
but time makes you bolder
children get older and I'm getting older too

take my love, take it down
climb a mountain and turn around
if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring it down

- Fleetwood Mac, "landslide"

I have bided my time in Desreal and come out of it alive despite the dire warnings given about the place. Now my feet bring me back to Solira never mind that my experiences here so far have been less than favorable. In my first hours upon the shores my solitary contemplations of the ocean were interrupted by an undesirable male poking his nose in where he was not wanted. Just days after that came the burning and oh what a burning, in some ways it fascinated me and others it horrified me…you see I am not completely heartless how much I may act it. The destruction is not so evident now, far from completely healed but pretty well disguised. There is food enough to support the herd I’d wager and the drinking water is clean.

With nothing specific to occupy my mind and no one particular who I wish to seek out I quickly come to wandering the sands staring bleakly out at the ocean. “You are a wonder.” Yes I’m speaking to the wind and the waves and no I am not crazy, so don’t look at me like that. “Did it hurt to burn and boil so?” I do not doubt that it did but I wish the ocean had voice to answer me with for I dearly want more than assumption to base my conclusion upon. My study of the waves proceeds in silence and sometimes my mind wanders to consider these elements that seem to be the dominant power in this place. I want to know everything there is to know about them and everything else in this strange land.

Patience is not exactly a strong point of mine but I shall have to learn it I suppose for there is too much knowledge here to be gained in the short span of time that I usually give to any one land.

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Call me JOYA for that is my name. Watch out for my 16.2hh, pale DAPPLE GRAY coated person for I have the potential to be deadly. Trust what I know for I have spent TWELVE long years learning it. The blood of SUFFOLK PUNCH, SWEDISH ARDENNES, POITEVIN, BELGIAN HEAVY DRAFT, MUSTANG & ARABIAN runs in my veins. Do not ask the names of my parents for I remember them not. Look for me in SOLIRA under the heading of NEOPHYTE, know my class as SCHOLAR within which I hold the rank of NONE and mark my element as UNLEARNED. Tie my heart strings to NONE until the day I die and trace my blood down to DAMOLISS & BRINE. My strings are pulled by the beautiful TZARRA who should be credited with both my creation and my words.