(I'm going to make part 33 rn)

( Okay XD )

Breezecloud, with an incredible effort, brought her skeptical reaction down to a simple explosive snort. "Maplewing, have you heard any thing I said? The predators will have plenty to eat. They just have to dig through snow for it. I never said anything about moving the dead or bringing them with us. I said that the predators, after digging them up, would move them, rendering the land there useless to us. Furthermore, we have over six thousand steeds in this herd. Even if every winter guard died protecting the dead, which they almost certainly won't, we would only have lost sixty steeds. That loss is quite sustainable."

Maplewing nodded in agreement with his mate. "If we all migrate, the wolves, bears, and tigers will have nothing to eat for months. That will bring the population of pegasi predators way down." He reasoned. "Even if we wanted to move the dead, there are thousands of dead bodies and we still have steeds who are recovering from the war. There will not be that many steeds to help move all the corpses."

Crystalcloud, not being able to not speak any longer said, "With all do respect, Breezecloud, things like that happen. The circle of life. It's nature.Let's say for a second that we do stay. The wolves and bears will obviously try to eat the deer and the rabbits. But, as you may have noticed, it's getting cold very quickly. The deer and rabbits will move somewhere it's warmer. So, that being said, after the deer and rabbits leave, the wolves and bears will try to come for the next possible food source: pegasi. Living pegasi. We will be putting that part of the herd at risk if they stay here." She said, a little more calmer than before.

Maplewing glanced at Mistcloud. "Rotating? That would be more work than just having the whole herd migrate together. If we migrate as a whole, then we wouldn't need to make sacrifices or worry about which steeds to pick to stay here." he said, moving to stand in a patch of sun, trying to avoid the already frigid and cold temperatures.

Hollywing:

He barked a laugh at the others. When theor questioning gazes fell onto him, he said, “You all want to stop the wolves and predators from eating things already dead. The deceased do not need their bodies, nor the energy inside them. We must make sacrifices, for it is not the physical thing, but the thing it is remembered as. We could consider ourselves hypocrites for sacrificing many steeds lives in the recent war, yet we keep the food from the wolves and things that need it most.” He took a breath and added, “I would be sad if my grand-daughter’s body was eaten, yes, but at least I’d know her old energy would live on in another form, not just stay dormant and slowly seep into the ground.” His mate looked at him, surprise and shock clear on her face. She hadn’t expected him to speak up.

Breezecloud flattened her ears angrily, but smoothed her expression before anyone noticed – she hoped. "That's not what I was suggesting," she said. "We can leave a detachment of, let's say, fifteen steeds here. The strongest steeds, originally hailing from one of the Snow Herd split-offs. The guards will rotate every moon with replacements we send north. And if those guards are killed, it won't matter much in the overall view of the herd because there aren't very many of them."

She shook snow out of her mane. "Every other steed, walkers and injured steeds alike, will migrate south. On hoof or wing, I'm ambivalent." [Ambivalent: easily persuaded; not much opinion one way or another]

Starsummer;

She considered Crystalcloud's words. "It's not like we would leave all the Walkers, Elders, and foals behind to fend for themselves. There will still be strong stallions and mares to protect them if anything does happen."

Crystalcloud snorted defiantly at Starsummer, offended that Starsummer chose to argue. "Okay, what if something does happen? Hm? By the time a messenger called for reinforcements to the other half of the herd, we'd all be dead." She snapped.

Hollywing:

He flicked his ears towards Breezecloud and liked this proclamation. Still, he said nothing and flicked his tail at the few flies still swarming this late into the fall.

Mistcloud-

Mistcloud listed to the two other former lead mares, and was pleased to see that they came to an agreement so quickly, "We have time that we don't have to do one huge migration." she said, "We could, say, fly south during the morning, but after sun high, and then rest for the remainder of the day."

Robincloud:

She though on Starsummer’s statement. “Are we sure we should move down south? I don’t believe many of the injured pegasi will survive. There has been a lot of damage dealt to some to where they can barely communicate,” the old mare said in a surprisingly youthful sounding voice for her age.

Starsummer:

"Okay, I'll start." she said, knowing that this meeting was going to be a long one. "I think we should move the herd south. Even though it will take a long time, considering our new Flame herd numbers, but it's either a long flight or freezing to death. We already have snow and it's in the middle of autumn. In Night herd, I remember how cold it was in the winters. I couldn't even imagine what winters are like here, since it's farther north than the Trap. And if need be, we have enough steeds to help carry others, so that we don't have to split the herd amongst Walkers and fliers." She said, concluding her explanation with a confident nod.

Mistcloud-

The council mare gazed around at the rest of the council steeds, fully aware that all of them were grieving from one death or another, but they were the herds leaders, and they need to figured out their next moves for the sake of Glacier Herd. "Thankfully, nothing has happened yet." said Mistcloud, in response to Robincloud's question, "But we need to make plans. Winter is coming fast, and we need to decide rather or not we are going to stay where we are, or head south."

( I’m finally back XD. How was your guys weekends? )

(Gtg sry)

(Nightmist won't be on for a while, though, right? Isn't she away?)

(Yea ok)

(we might need to wait for Nightmist)

(Yep, he's my OC)

Breezecloud smiled gratefully, then turned and cantered into the sky once more, coasting over toward Shadowfire and his family. She found the dapple gray grazing on the last of the living grass of that autumn, which brought her attention even more to the present matters. She explained the situation and Shadowfire agreed quickly. He had always enjoyed his position of power in Dawn Herd and only refrained from attempting to become overstallion due to the family ties and respect he had had for Bronzewing. Now that he was unchallenged, he had no problem fulfilling the role he had wanted long ago.

The two dapple grays took to the skies and landed in the council clearing as Mistcloud started talking.

(I feel like we're missing someone. Isn't there a Skywing?)

Mistcloud-

"I agree." said Mistcloud, once Starsummer had landed, "Shall we round up the others?"

Starsummer:

Starsummer spotted Mistcloud below her, gazing in her direction. Starsummer angled her wingtips down, so she could descend. Starsummer neared the lead-mare and greeted her with a nicker. Starsummer landed a wing length away from Mistcloud, her eyes flashing. "We need to talk. All of us do. About the migration, about the war, about everything." Starsummer said, folding her purple and gold wings at her side in one graceful motion.

(And how their gonna migrate the wounded cuz some of them can't fly or walk)

(ok! Yeah. I agree with those.)

(I only have five minutes)

(Oopse, sorry guys, I'm here)

( XD. Good night! And, in case I don't see ya, good morning, good afternoon, and good evening! )

(Aww. Ok goodbye)

(And, I hate to do this, but I should have closed the laptop twenty minutes ago. Good night.)

(....*Jeopardy music comes on*)

(here)

(Sure, who wants to start?)

(I'm here. I was DEFINITELY here the WHOLE time!)

(Dragon, do you wanna do a council meeting when Flamefrost and Nightmist comes back cuz they gots lots to talk about)

Whiteshadow-

Whiteshadow watched as Darkstone left the cave, knowing that he was disappointed he would have to wait so long for them to be together. The gray mare was also pretty disappointed, but her commitment to being a medicine mare need to come first always, regardless of anything.

Sighing, Whiteshadow turned back to the piles of herbs

Emberblaze:

As he threw a huge snowball at Redmoon, he felt a sharp stab of pain traveling up his wing. "Oh right. I can't use that wing." He thought, frowning as he folded his hurt wing to his side and only using his good wing to throw snowballs.

Mgicpetal leaped up in the air and caught a huge snowflake on her tongue. She giggled and caught another one.

Whiteshadow -

The young medicine mare was so focused on sorting piles of herds so they could be delivered to injured pegasi the she was completely unaware that Darkstone had approached her. She stiffened a bit when she felt his breath on fur, but relaxed when she breathed in his scent. "Oh I'm so glad your safe." Said Whiteshadow, nuzzling him back. "I would love to go to the beach with you but... uh... I-I can't really leave right now, but how bout we go in say...." She paused , thinking "In two days? I'm the full moon?"

(Found it: Darkstone found Whiteshadow in the back of the cave sorting roots and plants. He shuffled excitedly and nuzzled her. "I'm so glad you're safe! I was worried you got swept up in the fighting." he said, breathing in her scent. He stepped back and smiled broadly. "Now that the war's over, would you like to go to our special spot on the beach?" he asked, hoping she'd say yes. "Or...or.... if you're busy looking after the injured pegasi, I understand. We can hang out some other time." he bit his lip.)

(I think it was in part 31. One of the last pages maybe?)

(Oh okay so I did not see any comments with Darkstone looking for Whiteshadow, give me a minute to look back real qick)

(Unfortunately, I'm being told to get off screens for the night... see ya)

(OMGSH!!!! OMGSH!!!!!! DRAGON!!!!!!!! HII!!!!!!!!!! ITS SO GOOD TO CHAT WITH U AGAIN!!!!!! THE MB WASN'T THE SMAE WITHOUT UUUUU!!!!!!!)

( Maybe we should wait for Dragon to catch up or something.....? )

(I want to hold a council meeting, but we'd need Dragon for that.)

Dusksplash, who had continued to amuse himself with aerial stunts while the triplets had their snowball fight, pivoted around once more so he was flying southeast, toward a gap in the clouds a few winglengths beneath his dangling hooves. He found a small gap, barely noticeable because the snow-coated ground was just as white as the sky, and nosedived into it. As soon as he was below the clouds, he pulled out of the dive and scanned the terrain. He found his older cousin Horizongold talking with a mare that Dusksplash recognized as Pearlsong's mother and landed behind the two of them, shaking snow off his wings and out of his mane.

The young pinto colt waited for a break in the conversation, then tapped Horizongold's flank with one wing. "Come fly with me!" he pleaded.

Horizongold hesitated, wanting to get back to the conversation, but Dusksplash didn't relent. Mistcloud, the young stallion noticed, had smiled in satisfaction, and Horizongold took that as permission to leave. He rocketed toward the sky, quickly followed by Dusksplash.

Emberblaze grinned. "Ohhhh. It's on!" He picked up a wingful of snow and chucked it at Goldenstream. Before the snow even hit its target, he already had another ball in his wing. He chased after Redmoon and once he was close enough, he hurtled the snowball at her. The snowball splattered on her shoulder and he skidded to a halt, making a wave of snow from his skidding hooves. He turned around and dashed away, but was met with another face load of snow. He shook the ice off and looked where it was came from.

Goldenstream was laughing and hurtling a huge snow ball at Magicpetal that splattered on her flank.

Emberblaze and Magicpetal both picked up snowballs and threw it at their sister. Then, Magicpetal turned and chased Breezebell with snowballs.

(Is Dragon here?)

Emberblaze waved goodbye with Goldenstream, he then turned to look at his friends. "Sooo...What do we do now?" He asked. He hadn't seen the giant snowball hurtling at his head. Thesnowball smashed into his cheek and splattered all over his blaze, mane, and chest. He grunted and wiped the snow from his eyes. "Magicpetal! I know that was you!" and sure enough, his littlest sister was gathering a pile of snow into her wings to chuck at Goldenstream.

Emberblaze snuck up behind her. He reared onto his hind legs to reach a brach that looked like it was about to snap under the pressure of the snow in its pine needles. He yanked the branch back with his teeth and a mountain of snow piled on top of Magicpetal, only her bright aqua feathers peeked through the snow.

Emberblaze chuckled and flicked his tail in triumph.

Breezebell:

She waved goodbye to Dusksplash as he flew away. Then she plopped down on the grass and started to roll, leaving fresh grass stains on her coat and feathers. She nickered at the sensation and color.

( Ok )