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 Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:39 pm
She grinned toothily, thinking on it. "A little practice." she couldn't stop the snort of laughter. "Maybe if I practice on deer I can work up to foals." her head tilted, pondering. And it certainly would be fun. As they came to the river, she splashed into the water, following alongside from the edges of the bank when she was able. Zulimar greatly enjoyed water, always had. "Where is the smoke coming from?" she asked curiously as the pillars came into view. "Are there two-leggers here?" her face twisted in a disgusted grimace.
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:50 pm
"That'd work." He watched her quietly for a moment as she splashed about in the water. Valar was probably quite the opposite in his feelings towards it. Much preferring the warmth of fire over the cool feeling of the water. Turning his eyes back to the pillars of smoke he nodded slightly. "Yes. But we won't be getting too close to them I'm sure. There is probably a more round about way, but I don't think you feel like back tracking do you?"
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:18 am
She could feel his eyes on her. It was an eerie sensation. She splashed out of the water, stomping her hooves. "That is entirely optional. I would prefer continuing in the direction we are heading; or, if you prefer to backtrack, heading through an area I'm unfamiliar with." She moved a bit ahead of him, eyes watching the smoke.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:37 am
"It would preoccupy our time, but I think we should continue on our current path. Besides, I think you'd might like to see how the...other world lessors live anyway. It's quite comical." A small grin parted his dark lips as he recalled the first time he had spotted these creatures. All bound and gagged from contraptions created by the paler two leggers. Which also made them pretty easy targets when they were nothing more than puppets controlled by them.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:51 am
She raised a brow. "I can say I am intrigued. What do you mean by comical?" Zulimar glanced over at the stallion, tail twitching, eyes bright with curiosity. The stallion kept saying all these intriguing things! He wasn't moving fast enough for her by any means.
A squirrel decided to be bold, and shoot across the path in front of them. She moved, grabbing the squirrel's tail as it shot up the tree, squealing, and letting the beast hang from her teeth. It swung there, squealing, clawing and doubling up to bite at her nose, and its own tail.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:26 am
Valar's grin turned into a dark smirk. "You'll see. Lets just say that these lessors are probably being used in the right manner that all lessors should be." He raised an eyebrow at the squirrel curiously as it crossed his path, but payed it little mind. It wasn't much in the means of a snack, though entertaining as they were. His ear flicked back as he heard the squeal, glancing at her out of the corner of his eye only to see the squirrel dangling there. "Snack or toy?" He flashed those sharp teeth again in a large grin before continuing to the destination at hand.
He made his way around the village. Keeping a clear distance from the homes of them. The smoke still a fair distance away. As they passed it, the tree line started thin a bit and the smell of salt started to linger into the air.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:06 am
Her teeth remained clenched around the creature's tail, and she spoke from between them. "Toy. Let me know if it gets too loud for you though." She was feeling considerate today. And didn't want a squirrel bringing down hordes of two-leggers on her companion and herself. She shook the squirrel a bit; not too hard as she did not want to break the creatures neck, but enough to make it squeak louder as it was shaken.
"I admit to a certain curiosity now about seeing these Others." she admitted, grinding her teeth against the squirrel's tail. The scream it gave this time made her roll her eyes, and fling the creature down to the ground. A hood was positioned carefully over the body, and she broke the small back legs before removing her hoof and moving after the stallion again, leaving the squirrel screaming on the ground. The front legs were too small, and too much of a bother. She doubted the squirrel would make it far with just it's 'hands'... though she could be wrong. If so, good for the squirrel.
The smell of salt ade her head jerk up, and her nostrils flared curiously. "Where are we now?"
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:21 am
He chuckled inwardly to himself. He had figured she was probably just playing around with it. Even after taking down the deer not too long ago, a little play time with some innocent creature wasn't a bad idea for a little entertainment.
Taking in a deep breath, his nose wrinkled up slightly. "That is the scent of the ocean. Where the pale two leggers make their home by and keep their lessors bound." Valar moved silently through the tress, keeping to the shadows the best he could. Moving up a hill, he stood at the top in which it overlooked a small colony. Wooden buildings and all sorts of strange contraptions that the Kiwani did not have. And every so often, Soquili with tack and reins could be seen. Either ridden by one of the pale faces or tied up. Though occasionally there were some fences in areas where onces that wore none of these things were kept.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:34 am
Zulimar's eyes narrowed as she gazed over the area. "How interesting." her lips quirked in amusement as a soquili that leapt forward, obviously intending to run, was stopped by the two-legger jerking on the things it held in its mouth hard, causing the soquili to rear up, head jerked back. "It's disgusting. And oddly fitting for these creatures. Beasts of burden." She smiled, tail flicking. "And it shows how weak they are, that they would even let themselves be bound like that."
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:41 am
"Weak wills are easily broken." His own eyes had narrowed by now as they scanned across this little colony. In the back of his mind though, he knew that once these pale faced two leggers got their bearings they would soon be moving inward. It wasn't enough that he had to live with the Kiwani roaming the land. But these filth might try and tame him! Good luck to them. Though from watching them, they had a bad habit of eliminating whatever got in their way. And quite possibly everything that wasn't like their own Soquili that they couldn't control would soon be caught up in the flame of extermination. But he would survive. Even if it meant leaving these lands.
With a snort, he turned his head away. The scene playing in his mind ended as he started to move away from the colony. Sandy dunes peppered with patches of green grass lined the path ahead. After a bit of walking along the beach, the mountains would soon come into view and then turning inward they would cross another plain. But that wasn't for a while.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:25 am
She watched still, as the stallion moved away. This place did not quite strike her as one she would want to be around often, no matter how amusing the sight of the enslaved Others was. After a while, she turned, and trotted up alongside him, watching her hooves sink into the sand. The waves crashing against the shore were almost hypnotic, but she turned her attention to the mountains coming into view, choosing to avoid the water for now.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:25 am
The small mountains now started to grow in size. What seemed to be nothing more than mole hills were turning into giants. Their shadows stretching out along the ground like fingers raking across the ground which moved with the motion of the sun. Valar loved the mountains. His home. So easy to see what's coming and going from the many perches.
"As you can tell, these are the mountains. Nothing all too spectacular about them except for maybe the hight and change in climate as you go higher. There are few who live here and most who are unexperienced with such a place find it very difficult to survive. Ascending is easy. Descending can be tricky. Gravity has a way of playing with one's balance." His eyes rosed to the tops which were hiding in the low hanging clouds. It was always cold and snowy at the top, though deep within it's rocky substance lay warmth.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:57 am
Interesting. The mare trotted forward, moving in front of Valar, towards the base of the mountains. "And are there ways to get to the top of the mountains from inside?" She was fascinated by the thought of going all the way to the top, but doubted her wings could take her all the way up there, much less her hooves. They were something different, and she would confess to a curiosity about them that was perhaps too strong for what she would comfortably admit to in front of anyone.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:17 pm
"Not from inside the mountain, no. But there are trails and paths that can get you to the top. Though they have a tendency to narrow dangerously as you get higher. The lack of oxygen as you climb higher has a strange effect on the land scape." Unfurling his wings, Valar gave them a good long stretch before flapping them and soaring over her head to land on a low crop of rocks that jutted out from the base, not too far off the ground.
Folding his wings, he looked up towards the tops of the mountains again before looking back at her. His tail snaking back and forth behind him slowly. "Perhaps you'd like to take a tour of the mountains? We can go as far as you can handle if you'd like."
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:07 pm
She listened to him carefully, heeding his warnings about the dangers. "I would like to." she agreed, and moved to follow him up the mountain. "I would assume that our wings will not come in as much use as one would hope, the further up we go?" She could see the ledge narrowing further up, and she frowned slightly. If it got too narrow for her wings to stretch, it would certainly do her no good if she fell off. She would have to be quite careful as she proceeded.
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