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 Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:19 pm
 Her first pair of children had in no way prepared her for this. Leon had been very passive and quiet, and while Amary had much spice and fervor, she couldn't compare to the both of her youngest sons. Ever since they'd emerged from their baskets, life had not slowed beyond a canter. Life was running pellmell along with her colts.
She had found a reasonably comfortable spot in the weak winter sun to recline, legs tucked gracefully beneath her quickly slimming body. She had been exercising occasionally, but mostly it was chasing the terrible twosome that gave her the most work-out. Consequently, she had practically returned to her original weight again.
She glanced over at Rasui with warmth in her eyes. She had been lucky so far, to end up with stallions who were attentive fathers. Rasui was as caring and loving as she could wish. She stretched her neck to nuzzle him, one ear cocked towards their frolicking sons. "Jox!" Tobias neighed peircingly across the snowy field. "Joxer, come look, come look at what I did!" His small, sharp hooves danced frantically on the snow as the colt talked so fast he hardly took a breath. He gave a gleeful buck and raced over to his brother, seizing a bit of his mane in his teeth and tugging urgently. "Come look, I wanna show you m'wind! I made a wind snow soquili! I did, I did! Come see!"
With that he turned and bolted back to where a fallen branch that arched like a spread wing now had the impression of his small body below it. HIs aim had been off slightly, so that the wing seemed to sprout frhom the middle of his back, but he was completely and utterly delighted with his creation. "Look, Joxer, look!"
He knew that wasn't his brother's name. He did, really. His mother had given up coorecting him. But he could still remember dreaming, while tucked in with his brother within their mother. He had dreamt of their playing, their laughing, their connection. And in those dreams, he had named his brother by a different name than the one his mother had chosen. Despite being told over and over what Jonquil's actual name was, he refused to call him by that name. Ever. He knew his brother, and that wasn't the right name.
Granted, his brother was very much different than he was. They weren't quite night and day, but clearly individualistic. But in Tobi's heart, he and h is brother might as well have been twins. He loved Joxer fiercely, and would hear no unkind word said about him. Whatever else happened, he was his sibling's most staunch defender.
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:14 am
 Rasui smiled as he watched the colts at play. He felt proud to be a part of a family, even if it was a little unexpected. He remembered the day Luca had come to tell him. He had almost run off from the spot but managed to hold his ground. Now, he was glad he did but those few months had been a little scary for him. He didn't know how she could have carried the youngsters and yet still look so beautiful. While he wasn't quite ready to settle down, the purple stallion felt quiet comfortable here. Quietly she nuzzeled Luca back, still a little over-whelmed by the changes that had taken place in his life.  Joxer... the paler of the two colts could not understand where the name had come from but shrugged and followed his hyper sibling over to the impression he had made in the snow. After staring at it thoughtfully for a few moments he proclaimed. "It needs another wing..." He wandered away without another word before returning with another branch in his mouth. Lifting it carefully so that it didn't touch the snow, he placed it down a little higher at the shoulders so that the pair of them together looked much more like wings. "There... now it is like Uncle Dayunsi." He nodded with the completion of a job well done and glanced towards Tobias with a small smile.
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:27 pm
Luca gracefully rose to her hooves, shaking her coat free of clinging snow. "Aren't they adorable?" she commented lovingly, watching the colts. "I really do adore being a mother. Watching the culmination of affection between ourselves, as they grow and learn," she trailed off into a smile. "It is a truly lovely thing. One of the best feelings in the world." She slanted him a more intimate smile. "Other than creating them, that is."
Meanwhile, Tobi was randomly and suddenly leaping in the air, kcking his heels up, and whinnying at the top of his lungs, as if trying to warble like a songbird. He often was just too happy for words or 'normal' expressions of joy. He sorta had to do it his own way. What exactly his own way WAS, he hadn't discovered quite yet!
Abruptly he stopped dead in his tracks, slowly turned his head to peer at his brother, and a wicked grin spread incrimentally across his muzzle. Very slowly he lowered his head as if to sniff the ground. A quick flip of his nose, and snow went flying at his brother, splattering him liberally. With a ringing laugh, the colt bolted towards his parents, darting under his mother's belly and charging in circles around his father. Life was good.
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