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 Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:36 am
 The sun shined high up in the morning sky, signaling the approach of the afternoon. Birds flitted through the sky, already well engrossed in their, which had begun the moment the moment the sun's rays had broken over the horizon. The birds continued on their merry way, ignorant of the envious colt that watched them down below.
He wished that he could fly. That he could soar higher than the birds and touch the clouds that slowly trekked across the sky. Surely they would be as soft as they looked...
The day had just begun, and already the young colt's mind had set out on a grand adventure, leaving his body behind to gaze at the land with unseeing eyes. His body swayed amongst the dew colored grass just outside the forest, his reason for coming out here momentarily forgotten.
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Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:03 pm
 Calixte walked as quietly as she could to the end of the forest, listening to the birds sing in the trees. Their trills were always the light of her morning - they brightened every day as she woke from her nightly nap. And they were naps; Calixte hardly slept during the night. She was much more interested in the stars and the night-creatures than she was in resting, but she had to rest at some point. If she didn't, her body would shut down. She sighed and stopped at the edge of the trees, still hidden in the thick brush that other small animals liked to hide in.
She could smell the dew on the tiny shoots of grass, refreshing the world and then evaporating as the sun came up over the horizon. She stood in the brush, right on the edge of the treeline, until the sun was well into its journey across the morning sky. Eventually, she closed her eyes... And fell asleep standing up.
Calixte woke when she heard hoof-steps much smaller than her own pad across the grass. A black-and-blue colt was standing almost directly in front of her, staring up at the sky - he seemed to be daydreaming. Trying not to startle him, she came softly out of the brush. "Um... Hello?" she said quietly, wondering if he, like she had just a little while before, had fallen asleep on his feet.
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 5:07 pm
The mare's greeting went unnoticed by the young colt, his mind to far gone to notice such a soft greeting. Within the contours of his mind, he soared amongst the clouds. Upon his back were the wings made up of the many colors that made up the sunset. When he touched the clouds, they felt as soft as a baby rabbit's fur and molded to his touch....
Just like that, the daydream had ended. Young cyan eyes stares at four limbs that stood before him, limbs that he was sure hadn't been there before. Slowly, his gaze tracked up until they met the glowing ones of the mare. "Oh! Hello!"
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Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:45 pm
Calixte smiled at the colt when he didn't respond promptly. He was definitely daydreaming. His eyes were open, but his mind was elsewhere.
When he finally noticed her, his rather enthusiastic reply made her giggle. "Hello, young dreamer," she said, leaning down to his level. "How are you doing today?" He was definitely a cute foal, Calixte thought. All stripe-y with pretty streaks in his mane. His parents must have been proud.
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Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:10 am
Ellial could not help but stare at the mare before him. She was unlike any Soq that he had seen before. Her ears were so much longer than a normal Soq's, and pointed! And the odd leaves and vines that wrapped around her, they made her look like something from a fairy tale. And her eyes, they glowed!
The young colt stared at her with wide cyan eyes, wondering it he was still day dreaming. Young dreamer, the words had his lips pulling back into a wide smile as he pranced in place. "I'm doing good, what about you?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:22 pm
"I am doing well, thank you," she replied, and couldn't help sharing his infectious grin. Calixte noticed his stare - the wide eyes as they lit on her ears, mane, and vines. She leaned down. A tiny breeze rippled through her mane and she shook it out of her eyes. "What is your name, young dreamer? For surely, you have one?"
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:58 am
And there it was again young dreamer. Such simple words stirred such warmth in the young colt that he could practically sing with happiness. He came to the conclusion that he liked this mare, even if she turned out be nothing more than a creation of his young mind.
"I'm Ellial," the colt leaned in to whisper in a conspiratorial manner, "Did you come from a fairy tale?"
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:00 pm
Calixte leaned down next to the colt so they were the same height and looked him in the eye. She went along with his whisper. "No, Ellial, I am not from a - ah - a fairy tale... I came from Greece, a distant land that lies far from here, over the ocean." She turned her head in the direction of the sea - the blue waves were just visible over the tops of the trees. "That is the ocean. It is vast." She returned her gaze to him.
"I am a dryad, a friend of the forest," Calixte continued. The butterflies in her mane fluttered around her head. "Have you never seen another like me before?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 12:11 pm
Greece. Never before had Ellial heard of such a place, despite that, just hearing the name filled his young mind with wonder. And questions. Before he could voice his question, his attention was drawn to the ocean, and the questions faded into the fog that surrounded the edges of his mind. Perhaps they would arise again later.
"Never!" Without looking away from the ocean, the young colt shook his head. His short purple and red mane tossing with the action. "Never ever!"
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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 2:13 pm
"Never?" Calixte said, frowning, and returned to her normal height. "There are none like me here in this land?" No forest friends? How did the forests and creatures survive? Dryads kept things in running order. Without them, nothing ran smoothly. She sighed. She'd have to see how things worked without them.
"Ellial, my name is Calixte." She remembered how he'd stared at her mane before. She leaned down again. "You are a dreamer, yes?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 8:02 am
Sensing the sadness that his words had caused in the mare, he turned his cyan eyes back to her. Guilt welling beneath their surface.
"I am but a colt miss, only days old, I have seen very few during my life," murmured the colt during one of his brief moments where wisdom shown through his dreamy nature. And just as it appeared, it was gone, once again lost in the fog that cloaked his mind.
"I dream lots! Lots and lots!" Ellial eagerly nodded his head as they came upon his favorite subject. Dreaming... he was supposed to be going somewhere, right?
"Oh!"
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Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:27 pm
Calixte nodded, a bit surprised by his formal words. The colt did have something about him... Something almost surreal in its simplicity. "I will keep that in mind," she whispered in reply, just before his older tones could vanish, replaced by the usual friskiness he'd shown her.
"You dream a lot?" she asked, smiling once again. "Do you dream of distant lands, far from here, where there is nothing but forest? Or soaring in the sky above the sea?" She turned her gaze upon the far off waves, lost in what had once been. "That is what I dream of..." she finished under her breath, and turned to look back at him when his little voice cut through the air with an "oh."
"Oh?" she said inquisitively, wondering if he'd realized something or remembered something. But she could not guess unless he told her.
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 1:27 pm
"I dream of soaring through the sky with those bring beacons of lights that shine within the darkness of night." To emphasize his words, the small colt trotter in a circle, his cyan eyes sliding closed. When they were closed, and his gaze cast into black, then his eyes could not destroy the his days dreams with the truth that he lacked the wings needed to fly.
When he came to a stop in front of the mare again, he danced in place. Excitement shining bright within the depths of his cyan orbs. "I was going somewhere!" he nods, "Somewhere special!"
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 1:15 am
Cali closed her eyes and semi-dreamed with the colt. "Ah, the stars," she said, opening her eyes. "They are beautiful." When the colt stopped in front of her, she tilted her head to the side, curious.
"Where were you going to?" she asked, hoping he would show her. She saw this child as extremely special - not all dreamers had such an imagination as this one. And imagination over here, in this strange, vivid land, seemed lacking at best.
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:14 pm
"It's my own little kingdom," replied the colt as he peered up at the mare with wide cyan eyes. The gears within his young mind began to turn as he stared at this mare, searching for something. Like anyone with a secret, he wanted to share it with someone. To have someone gaze upon his special place and see it in the same beautiful light he did.
But could he trust her? She seemed friendly enough, actually, more than friendly. And she nothing but nice things to say to him, unlike Zaitus. He'd once thought of taking Zaitus to his little kingdom, but had shaken off the thought before it even had time to settle. He knew that the other colt would relentlessly tease him. Before he could ponder just why his thoughts seemed to drift back to Zaitus so often, Ellial's mind moved on.
"Do...." his voice trailed off as he chewed on his bottom lip, "Do you want to see?"
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