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Willow

Atlas's devoted partner

I don't need him to be unshakeable. I just need him to let me stand there when he isn't.

- Willow

Who she is

Willow is the half of the pairing that knows what it is actually made of. She is patient and perceptive, notices what others miss including in the ones closest to her, and is not easily rattled. The stable calls her and Atlas one of its finest bonds and tends to look at him while saying it.

Her composure comes from somewhere different than his. Atlas holds together through pride, which requires him to be right. Willow's steadiness is more forgiving and asks for less: not perfection, from him or from herself, only honesty. That is a lower bar and a considerably harder one.

She shows devotion the way she does everything, through presence and consistency rather than declaration, content to stand beside rather than ahead or behind. Her line is not a complaint about Atlas. It is an offer he has not yet worked out how to accept, made by someone who has been waiting a while for him to notice it is open.

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Where you have met her

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Unbridled Bonds

Atlas and Willow have built a bond Windmane Stable respects. Proven through competition, strengthened by years together and secure enough that Atlas has never thought to question it. Then Alicorn arrives. Stories follow the mysterious newcomer through the valley, including whispers of an old tradition in which bonded partners can receive a rare blessing from him. Willow's curiosity is immediate. Atlas's answer is not. What she sees as something they could explore together, Atlas cannot help seeing as someone being invited into a part of their relationship that has always belonged only to them. Alicorn offers no persuasion and Willow makes no demands. The choice belongs to Atlas as much as it does to her. But the longer Atlas resists the question, the harder another becomes to ignore. If he trusts Willow completely, what exactly is he afraid of?

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