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The wind howled in the distances as the small popping noise of ice crackled along the surface as the mare slowly stepped along its edge. Her nose was pressed close to it as her breath poured out like smoke from her mouth and crawled along the surface. A disgruntled looked lingered on her face as her green eyes blinked a few times before she raised her head looking around. It was infuriating, a whole hour wasted and yet Jaylin had not been able to see past the frosted surface of the ice to peer below into the depths below. There were questions that needed answers; such as how did the plants appear in color? What sort of creatures lingered near the ice? Even just one glance would have been sufficient. Flattening her ears she looked around again as she slowly began to walk around in a circle along the edge. Peaks former cattail stalks poked through the snow as she shuffled around them, some still tough from being frozen as she started to pull on some hoping to pull even one out.

Jaylin was still lost in her own world, unaware of any approaching figure despite all the noise of her of the crunching snow beneath the other mare’s hooves. Instead her mind was still looking for the correct answers to her question only finding it more and more annoying that a solution had yet to present itself. The worse idea she has was she had to wait till spring for the ice to at least melt some before she could look below its harden surface but that would mean weeks and weeks of waiting and the danger of not being able to walk out on to the surface. True the mare had a knack for not paying enough attention to things around her research but she was at least not dumb enough to risk walking fully out onto thinning ice. Even her smaller like flutter form the mare wasn’t sure if it was something she wanted to risk, and being the one child in her family she didn’t inherit much on the kelpi look of her father. No she was just going to have to keep looking for a better solution for the problem at the moment.

Her ear twitching reminded the mare too look up, a voice had spoken her name but her mind was so deep in thought she had merely forgotten to respond to it. Looking back she saw the familiar large purple body of a mare she had met some months ago. Subira she had said her name was, coming from a herd lead by a small usdia and a large angeni, which was rather curious for Jaylin, more or less in the terms of observation of how they interacted. Truly some part of her thought it may have been what others had considered cute that something so little was with something larger like how others cooed over a mother and a foal.

Giving her a nod as a greeting Jaylin thought about giving her a smile or at least one that she had seen others give to those they met again. The feeling however felt foreign to her as if trying to place some sort of creature in a habitat it was not met to live. Instead she gave a flicker of her wings and gave the mare her full attention, it was the least she could despite the nagging feeling to keep looking.

“Ah, I….” she paused for a moment trying to think of the right words without sounding completely stupid of her own actions. “ I didn’t… I am afraid I didn’t realize how cold it was out here and that my wings are likely freezing. I was trying to get a view of how some of the plants and small creatures lived under the ice. I am having a hard time trying to find a piece of ice that doesn’t have snow melted on top of it making it particularly blurry.” Her eyes darted as Jaylin tried to see if there was any spots near Subira’s feet that were clear as she slowly approached her. Unaware that her wings were almost trembling with the cold.