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 Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 5:44 pm
 Bedford could feel more and more pressure in his mind. He had been striving to fix things up for the herd, to make sure there was protection in place--help the sick, the needy.....all the things that he needed to do. He was tired, and here it was the end of the day. No time left for travel or adventures, but the wanderlust bright in his mind. He let his mind wander, magic carpets. Everyone talked how they didn't exist, but in his mind they did. There were wings, and magic and all manner of impossible things. Stars etched in the heavens, a treasure map to El Dorado....those were the places his mind wandered.
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:17 am
Neena drifted on the wing, the cold air causing her to shiver. When that happened she would beat her wings, gaining more height for a moment and then slowly glide back down again. One time she did that she caught sight of what seemed to be a twinkling star..only it was on the ground. She tilted her head, almost upsetting her balance and it took a furious flurry of wing movements to regain it.
She headed downwards, thinking it slightly odd..and maybe she was seeing things? Not only was the star below her, but it was slowly moving in a bobbing fashion. She had to be seeing things - brain freeze from being up in the cold air for too long.
Her spiralling downwards movement soon bought her almost to landing and then she saw exactly what the star was attached. When she did land it was more heavily than usual as she was quite surprised to see a Cerynei stallion with decorated antlers and she let out a small 'oof' noise as she touched down a little way from him.
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:09 am
For a moment, when Bedford looked up, he saw the shimmering shining jewels of the night sky bobbing and weaving just above him. It seemed as though they were coming toward him, gracing them with their presence. However, the stars kept coming to him and he felt that maybe these shimmering orbs were following him. Maybe the lights of a fairy...no, a bejeweled angel, some remanent of a shimmering star...
He watched as hooves touched down, and he saw a cloud of hair. Jewels shimmering in the lights, and he felt himself dazzled and stunned. Here truly was a beautiful angel fell from heaven, "Are you...an angel? A wish from a lamp?" He stepped forward eagerly, confused. Surely, he was dreaming or was this adventure at last?
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:17 am
She giggled at his first words, shaking out her mane and causing the jewellery to dance and jingle softly before it settled again.
'An angel? Well sort of..' Neena paused, looking up at his marvellously decorated antlers again, like a child seeing their first christmas tree.
'But not a wish from a lamp - not unless you wished for a chatty Cerynei-Angeni to come visit you? Did you?' she questioned him and then giggled again, her happy face alight.
'I thought you were a strange earthbound shooting star..well, meandering star.'
Again came the soft laughter, at her own silliness.
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:29 am
Bedford gawked at her, "Then you're what I wished for." He tried to shut his mouth, to keep it from hanging open. In all his dreaming, in all his wildest thoughts...He hadn't expected something like this to happen.
He watched as she jingled her baubles like some exotic dancer, smiling at him. All he could manage to do was look at her, listen to the tinkling laugh. It really was a dream.
He would wake up in the morning, and this adventure would be over just like every other adventure he'd been on. But for now, he was still asleep, still dreaming. He wasn't awake yet.
"Me? I guess, I am a meandering star, torn from the sky, banished to earth. I can only dream of the heavens I once frequented and envy angels like you." He spoke it sincerely, how he viewed it.
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:43 am
'Well good, if I drop out of the sky next to someone it's at least nice to know they were hoping to see me.' Neena said with a little wink. She still thought he was pretty much joking and would crack a smile and make his own joke about how he was actually wanting a proper Angel or something.
'Jeepers..' she murmured, so under her breath it was unlikely he would hear her. She caught herself and remembered to still smile all friendly like, but she wondered how someone that looked so jolly could be so very serious.
'Umm, you used to have wings and lost them do you mean?' she asked, her pretty brow furrowing as she tried to decipher his exclamation. If there was a deeper meaning than she couldn't get it for she didn't know him well enough.
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 1:00 am
"Well, this is a dream right? It's not really happening..." He frowned for a moment. "I wish it were real," he smiled this time though. "At least it's a good dream...."
He blinked rapidly, "Oh, no. I never had wings. I wished I did...Invented all these wild and wonderful stories of why I was bound to earth, punished for loving the land-dwellers too much....Loved another star too much....A thousand things...."
His voice trailed off, and he smiled a bit. "But this is a dream isn't it?" he questioned.
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:12 am
'It is?' Neena canted her head to one side, her headwings flicking a little as she considered that.
'Well if it is, are you dreaming me or am I dreaming you? Orrrr..' she said with a little laugh.
'Are we both being dreamed by somebody else? That would be really, really weird.' she looked at him for a long time after that, wondering how best to reply to him.
'Punished? Do you think that being on the ground is a punishment then?' she rustled her wings, quite sure that if she didn't have flight that she would be just as happy for there were many marvellous on earth as there were in the heavens.
'Nope.' she said and leaned over, giving him a poke on the neck with her nose.
'Feel that?' she chuckled.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:39 pm
Bedford laughed as she poked him, "I guess we are real. But it's still a dream too, it can be both you know." He nudge her back playfully, "It's not punishment, it' just...Why should me not being able to fly not have a reason? Some ways it's punishment, I wish I could fly. I wish I could travel...but instead I dream, I make up reasons...excuses why I'm not able to. I dream about moments like this, they don't happen to me."
The lights on his antlers twinkled, and matched the glowing pupils of his eyes. Both were dancing, almost in merriment.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:49 pm
'Well I don't know about that. Dreams are something that you eventually wake from, and are left with only a intangible memory that slips away the longer you are awake. I'm more real than that.' Neena poked her tongue out in a cheeky fashion.
'And conversely, why must there be a reason beyond parentage for not having wings? You can travel on hoof, I know it's possible, I see Soquili far and wide, on hoof and on wing.'
She was pleased he had seemed to have lightened up, and wondered if his mood had just changed or if she had been some sort of influence. She liked to think it was the latter, that her natural merriment could help somebody.
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 1:24 am
Bedford laughed with her, she was so vibrant and joyful. He couldn't help but smile with her, to think that maybe he would finally escape...that this not being a dream was a dream come true.
"I can't fly with wings, but my heart soars. It's..responsibility, others depending on me that keeps me back. But one day....someone will take my place, if only for awhile. I'll get away, have the adventures I always dreamed."
His eyes held a far off look, as he seemed to look through her and beyond her for a moment. Focusing back, he smiled at her. Her presence had changed his dismal mood, and for the moment he couldn't think of a reason to be upset.
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 4:47 am
'You could follow your heart. You don't have to fly, just do what you dream of doing.' Neena started to say and then nodded.
'Oh. Well, having responsibilities is nothing bad either. It's good to be someone that others look to, as long as you don't lose yourself in the meantime.' she smiled.
'So you have a mate, children, a herd then?' she supposed that must be what he meant by responsibilities, right now she couldn't imagine herself being beholden to anyone but her relatives and close friends. When she was older, when she was a mother she would be in one place, and she was sure have all sorts of responsibilites and Soquilis to look out for, but now she was enjoying her youth and the freedom that bought.
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:03 am
He smiled at her, "I feel like I'm flying now." He blushed a bit, "Not a family, just a herd to watch, to protect. But no family of my own yet....One day though....One day." He let his eyes stare off into the distance.
He felt like he'd been saying one day for so long. But one day never came, did it?
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 5:09 am
'Really?' she peered at his hooves.
'Hmm, you still seem to be on the ground.' Neena teased him gently and giggled.
She was confused; if he had no family ties what exactly made the herd his, well lets face it, it seemed like it was a shackle to him, something holding him back from what he truly wanted to do. Or, and here she was surprised by such a thought, maybe it was an excuse to keep him here. Could this stallion be afraid of the new? She didn't want to suppose too much though.
'Sooo.' she said with a smile.
'What's your name? I never did get it. Mine is Neena.'
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 3:15 pm
Bedford laughed and smiled back at her. "Well, I'm on the ground but I don't have to feel like I'm on the ground do I?"
He looked at her confused expression, but it wavered and he was too dazzled by her smile to remember it after. "I'm Bedford. That's a...beautiful name." He could feel himself blush at saying that. "So why we're you out here, flying on your own?"
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