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 Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 11:49 pm
The day was overcast, dark clouds looming above Shivali's head, threatening to rain on her. If there was one thing Shivali hated, it was rain, and the clouds rumbled ominously. She rarely parted from her teepee, used to being pampered and treated well and rarely was she called upon to do any real work.
So when she was called upon to help with the planting, well, Shivali was not going to have any of that! And so for the first time in her life, she ran away, away from her pampered, simple life to one full of overcast skies and unfortunately for her, thorny bushes.
She had been gone all of fifteen mins and she was already wanting to go home. But as Shivali turned herself around, she realized that she had no idea where her home was, in relation to where she was.
Shivali was lost.
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:20 am
Vytali picked his way through the underbrush, looking up at the skies suspiciously. He didn't really mind the rain, although with the chill in the air, if it started to fall, it was going to be rather cold...and one thing he'd long since discovered was that his wings, with their thin membranes, made him that much more susceptible to cooler temperatures.
It was in this frame of mind that he didn't notice Shivali until he was almost upon her. He stopped, pleased to note that he'd apparently seen her before she'd seen him. He couldn't help but smirk, as he watched her turn herself about--he couldn't help it, to see such an elegant looking mare, with such a lost expression on her face...it amused him.
Making his way a bit closer, he waited until he was close enough to be heard without raising his voice, before drawing to a halt again. "Lost your way?" He asked, amusement clearly evident in his voice, and reflected further in the smirk that graced his muzzle.
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:28 am
Shivali looked up with a slight toss of her hair, her inner shock not displaying one iota on her face. Narrowing her eyes at the newcomer, she noticed his smirk and his pompous attitude and she decided to not let her apparent confusion show.
"I'm not lost," Shivali replied to the newcomer, ice in her voice, "I have simply misplaced something and I am trying to find it. If you would excuse me."
Shivali turned away from the stallion and wandered away.
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:41 am
Oh my, she was entertaining! Chuckling, Vytali followed, more amused than he could remember being in quite some time.
"Really? What are you searching for, then? Perhaps I could help?" His words were still tinged with amusement, although his expression had shifted, outwardly innocent, as if he really had taken her statement at face value.
It was like picking at Nyan, only without the dramatics.
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:51 am
Shivali knew that she was being followed by the stallion, and chalked it down to her being so vastly attractive that he couldn't help himself. For him to even question her search for her mysterious item was unsettling to Shivali, and she pondered prettily, pretending to peruse the grass.
"I have lost my mother's dreamweaver, if you must know. I lost it yesterday, around this area, and I have not yet found it," Shivali sighed dramatically, "I fear I will never find it."
Shivali knew she was digging herself in to a hole, but she couldn't help herself. To even appear less than perfect was completely out of the question for Shivali. Shivali stopped, and turned to look back at the stallion, flexing her wings in an obvious attempt to tell the stallion to go away.
"I don't think I can find it. Oh well, mother will have to do without."
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:14 am
It was all he could do to stop himself from chuckling outright. Pride was something he understood well, after all. "I see." While his expression was carefully deadpan, he couldn't keep the smugness from his voice.
"So you're going to give up that easily?" He pushed, curious to see how far she'd take this, even as he utterly ignored her very clear signals to leave her the hell alone. After all, what would the fun of that be?!
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:27 am
Now completely caught in the web of her lie, Shivali sighed, and straightened up. She tossed her mane, fluffed her wings, and swished her tail, settling in to a posture that demanded attention.
"I was mistaken. I did not lose the dreamcatcher here. If you would direct me to which direction West is, I can be on my way. Since I lost it closer to the west, I am fairly sure."
She was not about to let him catch her in her lie, though she knew she was fighting a losing battle. It was odd, that he didn't demand her name; but she did not demand his, so it wasn't as odd as she thought.
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:36 am
Eyes downright shining with humor, Vyt was far too caught up in catching her out to notice the way the dim light glistened on her shiney coat, or sparkled on the jewels that she wore...well, at least, he'd not noticed MUCH.
Cocking his head to the side, he reverted back to his studiously innocent expression, allowing a hint of confusion to slip across his face. "But...if you've been here before, and know which 'direction' you lost it in, how is it that you don't know how to get there?"
And anyway, it wasn't as though he knew directions like east and west, either-he navigated by remembering landmarks, and sometimes, the positions of the stars in the sky.
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 9:59 pm
Shivali twitched. This stallion just was not taking the hint, and she had grown weary of his apparent humour at her situation, though it was true that her situation was not very true.
She tossed her head, thinking hard. To be shown up by this stallion just was not making Shivali happy, and she was determined not only to escape but to come out on top. And right.
"I got turned around, to be perfectly honest," Shivali was lying through her teeth, but this was at least true. All she knew was that her teepee lay somewhere to the west, along the river, but she had become even more woefully lost now that she had been turned around by this stallion.
"I've never been in this area before, though I thought that I had been. I was so intent on finding the lost dreamcatcher that I have gotten myself a bit lost."
There, Shivali thought smugly, a little lie tempered by the truth.
It didn't help that the stallion was attractive. If he was not as strong, or as fascinatingly handsome, Shivali probably would have told the truth to the unattractive stallion, thinking that he should show her home, as was his duty to someone far more attractive than himself.
But Shivali had to admit that he was handsome. And there lied the rub.
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