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 Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:24 pm
The pink and gold light of dawn was in the process of slowly fading to blue when Harlequin burst from the trees of the woods near her home. Her shadow took flight in front of her and with a few bounding hops Harlequin took off after it. A wild grin was splashed across her face as she bounded left and right after he shadow. After many minutes of this Harlequin collapsed into a slushy pile of snow giggling like mad.
Growing up Harlequin didn't speak to her brother much; She was pretty much, as most would say if they knew all the facts, an only child. Racing her shadow was the closest thing to a playmate she had ever had.
Laying on her side in the pile of snow, Harlequin stared at the clouds. 'Maybe Daddy's right... Maybe I should grow up...' Her mind was lost in thought.
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:42 pm
Oba watched as a young mare came into view she seemed to be having fun and he smiled. Leaving the spot he had found to graze in he trotted quietly to where the mare had let herself fall. He waited a few moments not standing to far away from her before peeking his head into her view.
"If I was a cougar I would have got cha!" Oba said playfully as his head blocked the clouds from her view and his hair draped around his face casting yet more shadows onto the ground.
"You should be more careful."
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:21 pm
Harlequin jumped in surprise and let out a soft yelp as the dark colored face sprung into he view believing it to be the black furred face of the skinwalker she met as a child. She clenched her eyes shut as tight as she could until she caught the words "You should be more careful" from a rich voice.
Harlequin opened one eye first, just to make sure the coast was clear, then another to find herself staring into rosey colored eyes. She could feel it, though couldn't stop it and didn't know why it was happening. She blushed as she stared into the face of a stallion and gave a small giggle. "Hehe... Um.. I'm... Heh... Hi!" It was the only thing she could get out.
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:35 pm
Oba raised a brow and smiled backing away to let her up. "Olleh to uoy oot!" Oba wagged his tail the day was nice and it put him in his normally hyper mood. Anemone had gone off alone for a bit and Oba had respected her privacy though it was hard. He had grown used to company, but now it would be ok cause he had someone to talk too.
"My name is Oba Fenyang! What's your's?" Oba questioned tilting his head.
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:22 am
Harlequin, still blushing under her brown and white cheeks, rolled to her hooves and stood. She made sure not to get too close to the new stallion; her father had warned her against getting too close to those she did not know. "Um..." She gave a short embarrassed giggle as she shook some gray snowy slush out of her brush of a mane. "My name is Harlequin, but you can call me Quin!"
With a bright smile, ears perked up, and eyes aglow with curiosity she stepped forward one step. "Where are you from?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:04 am
"Here and there a bit of everywhere really. Though right now I'm following Anemone, because I'm going to be a uncle when her foals are born. Though if you mean where was I born I was born in the desert, though what does that matter? We are all born on the same earth so we are all from the same place really." Oba nodded his head for a moment in agreement to his own statement before smiling at the blushing mare.
He was blissfully unaware that she was blushing, but something about her attitude towards him was certainly different, but he liked it.
"Your nice, hey where were you born, well other than on earth of course?" Oba laughed a bit.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:23 am
Harlequin listened to what the stallion said, but only because he was saying it. It was more of his voice that she was listening to than anything else. To her ears, the sound was rich and warm and flowed almost like it had a melody. She knew though that it was probably a figment of her imagination, but it was something she for once didn't want to ponder on. It wasn't until a moment or two after Oba had finished speaking that her attention snapped to.
"Oh, um..." What had he said?! Harlequin could not believe that she was stand in front of what could posably be her first new friend in forever, and she was screwing up so badly. She back tracked what she had asked him in her head to her asking him where he was from. Had he asked the same. Oh how she wish she had been paying attention. She went with it, hoping she didn't crash and burn.
"My home isn't far from here, just through those trees over there actually..." She gestured behind herself at the treas she had come through before. She then gave another small giggle before staring at the ground, silently praying that her answer had been right.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:40 am
Oba noticed her pause and a slight yet hidden look of worry on her face. He looked around as she stared at the ground wondering if there was something to fear. Oba had been overly skid dish since his run in with a kalona. As he turned his head he revealed a large scar over his eye, left from the fight with the kalona, he had been lucky that was all that happened. When she spoke his attention was brought back to her and he smiled.
"Do you have a family?" Oba had never been one for being afraid to ask questions. He enjoyed hearing about other soquili and their lives, perhaps he enjoyed hearing about foal hood the most. His hadn't been the greatest, but when he heard others foal hoods he liked to imagine what it would have been like if it had been him.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:01 am
She raised her head to look at him again, relieved that she had said the right thing, and noticed Oba's eye. "Yep! I have Mommy and Daddy and Brother. Brother says there used to be three of us before Daddy lost one of us. Daddy says it is a lie. Mommy just looks said when we ask and tells us to ask Daddy." Quin stopped there. She didn't want to bore Oba with all the nonsense she could tell.
Instead she, not believing she hadn't noticed it when she had been staring into his eyes before, decided to speak of his scar. She stepped forward and touched the scar lightly with her nose. "What happened here?" Harlequin asked as she backed up to the spot she had been previously standing. "Did you bump your eye?"
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:29 am
Oba nodded his head as she spoke, how nice it must be to have a family. He tilted his head as she spoke about the missing member of the family. "Which do you think is telling the truth?" Oba seemed interest and almost eager for her to go own.
As she changed the subject he looked a bit disappointed. He touch felt warm, he wasn't used to being touch though at least he didn't jump any more thanks to Anemone.
"Well...." As Oba started to speak his eye where the scar was began to twitch. He was remembering the pain he had felt and his fear began to make his ears twitch in all directions. "Have you ever heard of kalonas? This is a friendly reminder to me how dangerous they are. I was walking alone one night when one attacked me, I was lucky this scar was all I got. I think it wanted to kill me, it was trying at first that's for sure." He looked to her and tried to smile. "Just never go out alone is my advise."
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:13 am
"I have never met a kalona before I don't think. Do they have fur like a coyote or wolf?" She honestly had not ever met a Kalona, but Harlequin thought maybe it was another name for a Skinwalker.
She jumped topics again. "And I don't know which is telling the truth. I like to think that my brother is and I had another sibling, but I trust Daddy more. Sometimes I wish Mommy would tell. But then again... Ignorance can be bliss."
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:15 am
"No that's a skinwalker, both you need to watch out for though." Oba looked very serious at this moment. When it came to dangers he always spoke seriously. " Kalona are more like bats mixed with a demented soquili with a devil tale!!" Oba growled he was frightened to death of them, but there was none around right now.
Oba nodded in agreement to Ignorance was bliss and finally took a real look over Harlequin. Something made him stare at her, something about her entranced him. Her settle tones of color, her hair? He wasn't sure, but he couldn't look away.
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:05 am
"I don't think I ever want to meet a Kalona then... They sound almost as bad as that black furred monster I meet." Quin gave a short shudder and stared at the ground for a moment. When she looked back up she could not help but notice Oba staring at her. She shuffled her hooves a bit before backing a few steps away from him uncomfortably.
She felt odd every time she looked at him, and she didn't know if it was a good or bad thing. "Um..." What should the talk about now? "Do you have any family?" Quin asked curiously to fill the air with sound.
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:26 am
Oba hadn't heard her at first, but when she asked him a question all she had said rushed back to him and he shook his head embarrassed by his staring.
"Hope you never see either again. I'd be upset if something happened to a friend......." Oba looked away for a moment it was getting awkward fast.
"....No...I don't....That's why I like to hear about families,....to think about what it would have been like." Oba sighed a bit then couldn't believe he had just out right told her that.
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:27 am
"You don't... Have a family?" It was a hard statement for Harlequin to grasp. Everyone had a family... They just had to. To wander the world alone ones entire life would be unheard of. "Did you never have one or did they all just leave?" She could simply not see how someone as wonderful and beautiful as him could not have any family at all; there had to be someone.
And then it hit her. Oba had called her a friend. A warm feeling of pride filled her as she thought about it and a soft smile creped across her face. She had made another friend, and this time without trying. Then finally, wit a resolute nod, Quin spoke. "You know Oba, you should meet my Dad some time. He likes to meet my friends, and maybe, if we are lucky, he will have visited his two-legger and have gotten some sugar cubes. He should be back home soon if you would like to." Quin blushed again. She hadn't meant to just flat out ask Oba to come home with her, nor did she know if her father would be home soon. She started to think it hadn't been the best thing to ask at that moment. She had just met Oba after all.
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