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He slipped through the trees like a whisper, or a half remembered dream... the dry sent of fresh fallen leaves, the damp must of last years fall still moldering into a sweet aroma that charicterised the season.

Soon enough that hint of cold in the air would thicken to fat white flakes to blanket the world and leave him startly standing against a frozen world, crosshatched with black and bone baren trees.

He Kicked up his heels a little at the puff of fog his breath made in the air before he galloped that last ways out of the forest.
She caught his attention from the corner of his eye as he half stammered to a halt and wheeled to catch a better look. Even in the fading light the bright sky blue that tipped her hair looked almost like lightning. Make no mention of the rest of her patterning...

He reared a little, playful...
Who was this?

"Sorry...Hello!" he called, cheerful...

"Maybe a little of both" He grinned. Pretty, like a commet some how... or a fire... or... hard to tell really, vines and gold veins and splashes of blue like water that ran counter intuitive up her legs, almost wings down her slender ribs...
he twitched his tail sending it shivers and curls along his flank at a fly that was never there.

"Are you waiting for Stars? Or hopeing for sunrise?" He moved just a step closer before, deciding it might be rude to be so forward. After all, kicks reached a long way if you upset someone.

"I'm not waiting, I'm looking" He nodded... "Maybe for you..." The glint in his eye was purely playful, not rogueish...at least, not like that.
"What about you? Are you waiting or looking?...If you're looking...maybe we could look together for a while. I'd like that..."

He nodded and danced a little from foot to foot, like a brease that could never quite sit still. "I'm Taiki..." he added as though an afterthought, as though names were less important than the being of something, or someone."

"Well, if we're both found, we're at the begining" He shook his head sending his curls wild directions.
"I'd be sad, if someone were just their name... It would be so limiting." He glanced around and flicked his tail...
"It's open...and theirs still light, I'd like to run, will you join me? We can chase the fireflies...or watch for commets...or find a hill and wait for sunrise... I'd bet its beautiful, with this chill in the air."

"We'll have to try and see!" He said and kicked up his heels...
"Follow me! I'll show you! The Highest hill I know...from there the path of ansestors...and from there, spirits guide the way!" He beamed and tossed his head, springing forward like he'd been set free from binding shackles and glancing back with wild and laughing eyes to see if you followed, like dawn chansed the night, thier fingers locked in the gloaming between dawn and dusk.

"You're quick!" He said delighted, and hazarded a soft nose to her shoulder in tease.
The moon glinted on his horn and scales, bright even in the evening light, not unlike the foxfire of her hair.

"Fireflies!" He said suddenly delighted "I thought they be gone by now!" But sure enough as you both crested a hillock, the last of them still darted sleepily

stubborn perhaps, but lurking there around a pond of cat tails and flickering like tiny lanterns in the branches of a weeping willow, whom had tucked up her 'skirts' to dip grey 'toes' into the cool water... it was quite beautiful. the valley dipped her, and seemed to reach on forever, curving back and forth so slightly with the stream that ran out from the pond... no doubt fed by some underground spring.

He perked slightly delighted, she thought him good company! He could have bucked like a foal.
"Couldn't ask for prettier..." he replied before realizing that it had slipped free and his ears flicked embarrassedly
"Just here!" He said and circled roung the cat tails sending a bull frog diving for the middle "The valley is perfect for sunrises...if we keep going though, theirs a tremendous down, so tall and clear. A hard climb though, are you practiced enough?" He said a little teasing, a glitter in his emerald eyes.