The Balinor Chronicles: The Celestial Herd
Chapter Fifty-Five: Queen Me
EDMUND: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,
when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit
of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our
disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as
if we were villains by necessity; fools by
heavenly compulsion.
--King Leer, Act I, Scene i
On his way back to the mountains, he was confronted by the Mare. The Mare of the Mountain, as she had been called for several years, met with The Stallion of the Mountains and led him to a cave, known to few, visited by only the Mare. There is deep magic in the mountains, and wherever liveth strangeness, so doth the Mare. And Raiden is the epitome of strangeness…sired by water, raised by flame, born of earth. In time, he could come to inherit the powers of all; indeed he already had the mountain's magic and the fire's temper.
In another life, he would have been Dreamspeaker. In separate timeline, he would have ruled the Celestial Herd. In a different reality, he would have been the savior of his people.
But Unicorns only have one life and this is not another timeline
In this life, he was a pawn who had just been queened.