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 Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 6:23 pm
Kiefer put one hoof tentitivly on the trunk of an apple tree. It wasn't the thickest tree, and he didn't want to break it with his weight. He put the secound one on, trying to ignore the creaking sound it was making. It hadn't bent too much though. He streched his neck up as long as he could, and plucked an apple he had been eyeing for some time.
The stallion returned his hooves to solid ground, and began to enjoy his prize. Kiefer wasn't one for going out of his way for food, but he had been lounging under the tree for quite some time, and the bright red apple had caught his eye. After a few terrible minutes of just staring at it, he decided to just grab it, and boy, it was good.
It made a satisfying crunch sound as he bit into it each time, and the sticky juices oozed out of it. It had been a while since he was able to properly enjoy a ripe apple. In the coming of the hot summer days, most of the trees weres stripped of fruit within most soquili's reach, but it seemed they had overlooked this one.
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 6:31 pm
 A shadow seemed to drift along the forest path, yet upon closer inspection this was no shadow but a dark blue mare with a mane of pure white that fell behind her like a fanfare. Her footfalls where silent upon the ground as she walked, everything around her seemed still and silent.
Her crimson eyes caught sight of a stallion in the distance and she had witnessed his fetching of the apple. A small smile broke on her normally expressionless face. "Hello there." she said softly, with a nod of her head. Her pale mane fell over her face in a casscade.
She shook her head and chanced a smile at him again. "Looks like you found yourself a treat, Not many apples left this time of year."
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 6:44 pm
Kiefer continued to enjoy his apple, just about finishing it up. He did not hear the mare approch him at all, so when she spoke, he jumped a bit to the side. She was startling to look at, an odd aura to her, as if the world seemed to go quiet with her. She didn't have any pupils, either.
"h...Helo" he said, trying to get a grip on himself. Kiefer knew very well that there was an astonishing variety of different soquili, from the incrediably bright and colorful with huge intricate wings, to dark, evil creatures with massive fangs and horns. This one didn't seem incredibly out of the ordinary, but he got a sense there was something different about it. But she spoke so normally!
He smiled back. "Yes, I havn't really had to many this year...as soon as they are ripe it seems everyone takes all they can, and I had rather poor timing, I guess" he said, already settled into the fact that even if she was a 'special' soquili, she was clearly friendly. So no worries, right?
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:01 pm
Tanwen nodded her head softly, her white hair drifting around her as if it where a misty cloud. "Well can you blame them? Apples are such a rare treat, only coming out for a few months every year."
She took a few steps forward and turned her gaze towards the swaying apples above her, high and safe in the thick leaves of the canopy. "Suppose those that are left will be for the birds."
She shruged her navy shoulders and tilted her head a bit as she looked at him. Her gaze was almost unsettling, beacause of her eyes. To herself she was perfect normal, besides her fathers eyes where red. She didnt understand how very different they where from anothers standpoint. "I'm Tanwen, It's nice to meet you."
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:11 pm
Kiefer shivered slightly as their eyes met. As bad he felt to admit it, she was pretty creepy. But her personality was normal. It was just her eyes, it was like she had a cover over that other's didn't. Kiefer never realized it before, but when you met someone else's eyes, it was like you could almost read their emotions. With Tanwen, it was different, and it made him feel a bit nervous.
"It's true. Had I seen you earlier I would have saved you half or something..." he said, feeling a bit bad for taking the last one. He wasn't the whole 'gental-stalliony' type, but he knew that one should at least pretend you cared.
"Nice to meet you, Tanwen. I'm Kiefer" he said. He was dying to ask her about her eyes. And her hair. And her. But that was such an entirly rude question. But curiosity was a strong force.
"This is an entirly rude question...but may I ask if you have any...erm..unique blood in you? Because I notice you have a certain...way about yourself that seems...uncommon" he said, trying to make his words neither accusitory nor negative. He knew he wouldn't be particularly thrilled if someone he just met asked him why he looked so weird.
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:18 pm
"Not to worry, You picked the apple fair and square and I do say you earned it. No need to give me any, or regret." She blinked slowly and tilted her head ever so softly to the left, her bangs swaying softly to the side to caress her cheek.
"I do say thats a silly question. What do you mean by Unquie blood? Im no different from you." She said matter of factly, and indeed it was true. Though her apperances where a little strange she was no different than the other soquili roaming the lands with out wings or horns. It didnt even dawn on her that he could be reffering to her eyes.
Tanwen shook her head softly as a chuckle escaped her. "Do I look like a Kalona or something? Have I sprouted wings?" She glanced at her back and craned her head as if to see, and even went so far as she check her shadow should she for some reason not be able to see anything strange.
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:23 pm
He chuckled "Alright then." he said, looking up at the rest of the apples. Too bad he wasn't a wind soquili, he could fly right up and pluck one off the tree anytime he wanted to.
"Oh...well...er" Well, this certainly wasn't going to well. Was it possible she had never noticed that her eyes were different? They weren't bad looking, or ugly, or anything like that. Just different, and perhaps a bit unsettling at first. But could she really not know?
"Umm...nothing. I think the light just caught you funny" he said, lying, and hoping she didn't notice. The last thing he needed was a mare freaking out because he told her she looked different then others. He knew that to some, outer appearence was quite important. He never really got that, he had never seen a bad looking mare in his life, nor one that seemed better then the others. Mares were weird like that.
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:31 pm
The blue mare shruged her shoulders again and dissmissed what had happened, what an odd question that had been. Perhaps he just wanted to meet someone that had wings... or maybe he was hoping she could get more apples from the tree high up? Whatever the reason she saw no harm in letting that subject drop, and like water off the back of a duck it fluidly left her mind.
"On the subject of apples..." she said changing the subject and turning her eyes once more sky ward. "We might be able to get a few more." The mare began to circle the tree, all the while looking up into the brows. "Hmm..." her mind was calulating the best way to get the tree to shake, and more so which apples would fall better than others. Apples that where ripe rarely needed much of a reason to fall, a good gust of wind could sometimes send them to the ground.
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:42 pm
Kiefer gave a silent sigh of relief that she easily dropped the subject. Some would probubly start giving him the third degree, if their hair was messed up, or if he thought their markings we weird. But he knew also that a good deal of mares didn't stress over that, and that made things alot easier for him.
He watched her circle the tree, curious as to what she was doing. Probubly looking for low ones, or maybe looking at the ones up top. "I saw a mare kick the tree hard once, and a few apples fell down, shall we try taht?" he said, not realizing that that was just what she was thinking.
"Anyway" he said, trying to start up a proper conversation, since he felt a bit stupid standing there talking about apples. "have you got any family that you know of?" he asked. He had only really met one mare that got upset over this question, but it was more that she was upset in the first place. Most either got excited and went on a rant about how wonderful their family was, which was of course what Kiefer would do, or just shrug and say they never met their parents.
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 8:02 pm
"Thats what I was thinking, the trick is to pick the right side to kick from to cause the tree to sway the way you want." She set her gaze having finally chosen a spot. She turned around from the tree, so that her back was too it. "Watch closely... not sure where there gonna fall really, so watch your head."
Tanwen ducked her head and kicked out with both back legs, her hooves hit the tree hard and sent vibrations up the thic trunk and onto the thin branches. The leaves shook furiously down at her and one by one a few apples gave way and fell to the ground with a soft thud on the mossy grass.
"Oh yes, I have a fairly large family." she said with a nod of her head, the whisps of her white hair dancing around to frame her face. "what about you?" she asked as she craned her long neck down to pick up a rather juciy looking apple that had fallen near by.
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 8:58 am
"Wow, I never realized there was a science to it" he said, wondering if it really made a difference. Then again, in the past he had tried to kick a tree to make the apples fall, but it had very rarly has worked.
"Fantastic job!" he said, picking up one of the apples. "Can I have one?" he asked, fairly sure that they were for them both, but decided to play it safe and ask anyway. Tanwen looked at him again, and the similar feeling of uneasiness returned.
"Yea.. my family is huge. Two sisters, parents of course, six cousins, and five aunts and uncles" he said proudly. He knew there were probubly larger familes around, but he had yet to meet anyone else who rivaled his. It was a nice feeling to know he had such a big family, but then again, he felt oddly disconnected from them. The stallion had wandered so far from home, it would be quite the treck to go visit them
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:10 am
"Yes you may have one." she said with a nod of her head as she bit down on the apple. The sweet juice splashed over her tongue, gently cool and crisp. It was one of the better apples she had eatten this year she was sure.
"I have two brothers, Mother and Father..." she said after swallowing a bit of an apple. "and they are a handful enough. It must be nice to have such a large family though." she said softly, little knowing that her half brothers and sisters where part of a very large family in itself... yet she didnt know of them, for her father and yet to confess to them what had happened long before she was thought of.
Her long tail flicked softly and she sighed with contentment as she finished the last bit of her chosen apple. "So did the apples bring you out today or was there another purpose?" she asked him, raising her gaze to look at him once more. Was it just her or did it stiffen when she looked at him?
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 7:55 pm
"Oh yes, it is a blast" he said, enthusiasm not exactly oozing from his words. Large families were wonderful, but it certainly put alot of pressure on a stallion. As a colt he always wanted to go out and meet everyone in his family. As a stallion, he just wanted to get away from them.
"I mostly just came out because..." he paused "I don't know. Have been thinking a bit. My parents would want me to visit I think, but I don't know if I want too" he said, looking up in the sky, and avoiding eye contact.
He chanced a look again, trying to not show how much it bothered him. Clearly it would be rude to just run away now, particularly for such as stupid reason. So he would have to get used to it if this meeting would amount to any sort of friendship.
"I don't want to deal with my parents giving me the third degree on my life, or.." he paused. Was this really it, was this really why? "I don't want to find out my sisters have run off and gotten themselves a mate or something. I know it is weird...but I just. I don't know. What if they mess up, and are with a completely idiotic stallion? It would be all my fault.." he paused, feeling like his statment was completely contridictory. If he didn't want that, wouldn't he be home? He couldn't prevent it without them hating him, though. So it was easier just to just avoid it.
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 10:08 am
(( sorry for the wait, I was on a camping trip ))
Tawen slowly finished her apple as she looked at him, his voice almost seemed to drip with sarcasim for a moment, or at lest doubt. She looked at him, red eyes just staring before she blinked innocently as her own mind settled on the subject of family.
Her tail flicked softly and slowly settled on the ground again as if it where ribbons of fallen snow. "I suppose... but.. do you think maybe you've come out here to find your own path?" She rather wondered if that was why she was here.
Well of corse it was! Besides that she liked striking out on her own, family was nice but freedom was love, and that was sort of what her family was based off, being free to go where you wanted. Sticking to the basics rules of courtisy when meeting others and over all common sence.
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 1:30 pm
((Don't worry about it ^^))
Kiefer wondered if she picked up his sarcasm. Once again he felt a bit helpless, unable to read the mare. He had never focused on body language to read another individual, but now he had to. He watched her for a moment. She didn't seem as stiff or as uncomfortable as he felt.
He perked up his ears, hearing her words. Was that it? Maybe it wasn't him craving freedom, maybe he just wanted to find himself. "Maybe...probubly. Yes. I think that is it. I always felt as if my family defined me, but I don't think that definition is quite right"
He knew he had bits of both his parents, the kindness and care for others of his mother, but also the edge and fresh-ness of his father. But he was neither of them, he was himself. He as the stallion that very rarely was fun-loving, trying to keep his mouth shut and be kind, but always had a bit of trouble with it. He was the one that never listened to what people said, and usually went on with what he wanted to do instead. The stallion that always had to learn things the hard way, or not at all.
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