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 Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:16 pm
 Vohamanah had been out flying, galloping, and trotting all over the plains. He had been gone for hours following the sun that was warming up the cold winter ground for spring. The change in weather was making him excited and adventurous.
He was always striving to go exploring, and he often felt stiffled when his parents tried to keep him in line of sight. He always felt like he was much older than he really was. He was positive and certain he could handle whatever life would throw at him.
So it was on this fine early spring day, he was trotting on a beach. It was blowing his mind to look at it and see no end to it. He had only ever seen a lake and some streams before. All that water. Then, he spied another young soquili out on the beach. She was alone too. Did she have a heart of exploration as well?
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:33 pm
Zandali whimpered slightly as she lay on the hard rocks of the small outcropping that jutted out in the sand. She stared at the glistening water with a blank expression as her mind wallowed in guilt. Why couldn't she be what she was supposed to be. Why did she have to be different, why couldn't her grandmother accept her. She closed her eyes and sighed dejectedly as the water came up to brush against her outstretched hooves. A rough stone grazed at her side but at the moment she didn't care. her mind on more distant matters. She didn't even see the other foal who had shown up at the otherwise empty closed in beach.
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:35 am
Vohamanah walked softly up to the little foal. He looked her over, and as he got closer, he realized she seemed to be feeling a little down. He grimaced inwardly as he disliked being sad. He didn't like others being sad either. He didn't like stuff like pain, dismay, hopelessness. He chased silver linings in every dark moment. All of this helped him to instantly forget he had been lost and had been away from home a bit too long.
"Oh... Why are you sad? Today is a great day! Today, the beach has cool water that feels refreshing to the hooves. The smell of the air makes the nostrils open wide. And.. if you look down here in the water, there are stuff I never see in the stream. Like.. WOW! Look at this...." He bent his head into the water and clenched a starfish in his teeth.
When he pulled his head back up, his chin dripping with sea water held it up. He tried talking from behind it still held in his mouth. "Isn't this neat? I never saw one before. It had an interesting texture. I'm trying not to bite too hard though."
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:14 pm
She looked at him bewildered as if he had just appeared in front of her with a poof of smoke. His childish banter flowed over her mind with the insistancy of rain and she flicked her ears back for a moment. Watching him with dark red eyes Zandali frowned a little as he pulled the starfish from the water and waved it in the air for all to see. "I-I-I... d-d-don't t-t-tink you s-s-s-should t-t-take them out of t-t-the water. T-t-they c-c-can d-d-die." Her voice came soft and broken, her melancholy aura permiating through her words.
She didn't really know what to make of him and almost retreated back into her own thoughts. Why did he not run away in fear? Was she really so weak-willed and soft that she could not even stand up to this small foal? Zandali closed her eyes and tried to fight the sinking feeling she felt within. Maybe her grandmother was right and she did not belong.
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:20 am
Her word of caution about the starfish dying caught his attention immediately. It wouldn't do for that to happen on account of him. Why? So everyone could know the angel of optimism killed a starfish. He quickly dropped it in a flinging motion to the water. He then walked up behind to scoot it further into the water. He gave this embarrassed half laugh. "Heh. Yeah.. and That is why I'm putting it back into the water right away!"
Then he walked back out of the water. That was almost embarrassing. Then, he had a brief chuckle at himself. "I suppose that was a little silly. Though I can tell ya. I really wouldn't have known. I don't know nothin about where I'm at... In fact... I don't think I even KNOW where I'm at... but that's all right!" He spun around trotting in a circle and started to flutter his wings feeling happy with the ocean air.
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:58 pm
Zandali nodded as she watched him fling it back into the water. She imagined what it would feel to be pulled out of the enviroment she had been used to and flung into another. For a moment she wished that someone could do just that. Maybe another family would not mind if she was not up to their hopes. Though her mother would miss her, she was sure of that. The foal came back to the present still sitting upon the ground. The rock that was biting into her side was a little more uncomfortable now and she wondered if the other would mind if she got up.
"Y-y-you a-a-are at t-t-the b-b-beach. T-t-this c-c-cove is c-c-called S-s-s-s-star p-p-point C-c-cove." She wondered if it was possible to not know where she was and be ok with it. Where was his parents? Did they give him the freedom he wanted or was he like her and despised and pushed away? Zandali didn't feel very welcome in the glade and so often came to spend time by herself with the lonely ocean.
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:28 pm
"Star. POINT.. COVE!" He said each word louder than the one before. He smiled wide and fluttered his wings. "That sure sounds grand! Yea... The beach? Well.. it sure does have a nice smell. The smell is very different from the river that runs by my home. We live by some big river. There is lots of trees there. I just started flying.. and running.. I guess I lost track of time."
He looked at her smiling. Deep down, something told him maybe he should make his way back home. Still, he thought this was possibly an opportunity that would effect him later on in life. Why not make the best of it? Wasn't everything part of a plan that would build him into a grown up? Why not try to get as much fun and experiences in as possible.
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