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 Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:36 pm
 Her wings lifted her. Samsara felt her heart soar with them as the wind caught her and brought her off the ground. Finally. After so much practice, so much work, she had finally...
Her thoughts and her flight were both cut short. A sudden crosswind wobbled and then toppled Samsara out of the air. She crashed into the grass that managed to have just enough hidden rocks to batter her as she landed in a heap. The shock was enough to make Samsara cry out with pained dismay. Would she ever be able to flutter gracefully like she was supposed to? She slowly picked herself up off the ground and tried not to sniffle. She'd try again. Her mother and father told her that was what she ought to keep doing when something didn't work out.
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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:49 pm
 Cohnachan trotted lightly towards his current destination; a spring that laid a little ways from where he was. To him, the weather was quite nice today, and the lack of anyone bothering him only made things better. However, it seemed that things wouldn't stay this way as he heard a sharp cry from nearby. Pausing for a moment to look in the direction from where it came, the dark stallion tilted his head slightly. The voice sounded pretty young, which piqued his interest somewhat. While he wasn't much to go see what was with other's business, he wasn't as heartless enough to not check something out in the case a young one was in danger. If things were alright for the most part, then he'll just move on. So deciding to go see what was about, he made his way towards where heard the cry. And eventually he was able to make out the figure of a young horse up ahead, though nothing else was about.
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:27 pm
She had not yet worked up the courage to try again when she noticed the strange stallion heading towards her. Ordinarily hesitant around strangers, the foreboding colors of this one set her heart thumping in her chest. She had never seen such colors on a soquili. All of her family and her friends so far had been bright and widely colorful. What did it mean to see a soquili all black and streaked with flames? Was he a skinwalker? She remembered hearing that they were bad soquili but little more than that.
This caution led her in a short sprint, just far enough to hide behind a bush. The shrub did a good job of hiding her body but her head still poked out over the top, two kalona horns on her head prominently displayed.
"Who are you?" Her voice was shrill with youth and nervousness. "Are you a skinwalker? If you are... go away!"
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:48 pm
Slowing down his gait as he really saw nothing dangerous in the area, Cohna shook his head slowly to himself before looking more towards the foal that was now attempting to hide in a bush nearby. Frowning a bit, he wondered if she actually thought hiding like that would do her any good if she really were in trouble. That aside, he noticed two horns on her head, which resembled that of the ones Kalonas were known to have. Not that he really cared about that sort of thing.
When the young horse squeaked out at him, he twitched slightly as her shrill voice agitated him some.
"I'm definitely not a skinwalker so pipe down will you? And if you want to know who I am, you best say who you are first."
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:50 pm
Samsara's head drew back in surprise at the rebuke. None of the other adults she had met had ever spoken to her like this. It did nothing to calm her anxiety and she had to resist the urge to simply bolt away from the stranger. Nevertheless, he had asked for her name and she remembered from her parents that she always ought to introduce herself when meeting a stranger for the first time. Her wings shuffled nervously on her back and she took a step around the bush so that now only her hindquarters were still hidden.
"My name is Samsara..." She wanted to know his name too but didn't want to ask for it. He'd probably tell her it now that she'd told him hers, right?
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:21 am
As Samsara moved out from the bush halfway, Cohna noted that she also had some wings. So it seemed that she was quite a mix of several different types of Soquili, not that it mattered so much to him. But now that she had introduced herself, he figured he might as well do the same.
"The name is Cohnachan. Now what the heck are you doing crying out and hiding in a bush like that?"
He was curious, that was certain. After all the reason he had come to this spot was because he had heard a young one cry out around here.
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:35 pm
"Well... I don't know you," she said hesitantly. She convinced herself to edge away from her bush another step but her eyes remained wide and anxious. The stranger, Cohnachan... he had red eyes. That worried her almost more than the rest of his ominous coloration. Red was a very strange color to be in someone's eyes...
"My Dad is around. Did you come to see him maybe?" She wasn't certain where her father was at the moment but knew he wouldn't have gone far. He wouldn't leave her all alone like that without telling her first... right? She thought of her tall golden father and mentally compared him with the dark stallion. She guessed that her father was the taller of the two but from her angle they both seemed impressively large.
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:58 am
If there was one thing Cohna figured out about this foal, aside from her name, it was pretty apparent that Samsara was pretty skittish. But he didn't ease up on his attitude much. The kid would have to deal with other temperamental folk sometime in the future anyway.
"Father? The only one I've seen around here is you. Looks like you were left alone kid. Now would you quit gawking at me like that? If I had wanted to hurt you, I wouldn't be standing here chit chatting," he said with a snort.
After looking at the female for a moment, he glanced around. For all he could tell there weren't any sighs of anyone else being in the area.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:50 am
Hayagriva was indeed in the area but currently out of sight of his flutter-winged daughter. To say that he was in a bad mood that day would be an understatement. The tip of his serpentine tail lashed against the plants that he stalked by and the expression on his face made him look more like his kalona father than his kind mother.
He couldn't stop thinking about Adour... his other daughter, led astray by the mare that was supposed to be taking care of her...
Samsara gave the area one last look around. Cohna was right... she didn't see her father anywhere. Sometimes he left her alone but never before had a strange adult found her while he had. She nervously wished that he would return quickly.
She turned back to Cohna, watching with yet more uncertainty. "What are you doing here, then?"
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:04 am
"I heard a foal cry, and I came to investigate, but nothing's here apparently."
Turning his attention back towards Samsara, he kept a relatively stern expression. Cohnachan still didn't know what it was that caused her to bleat out earlier before he arrived, but maybe this kid was just strange like that. Crying out and hiding inside of bushes and all, or whatever she did to keep herself busy and entertained.
"But what are you doing out here alone anyway? Trying to attract wolves with cries of pain? I'm sure if any heard that they'd think easy prey is about."
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:54 am
"Wolves?" She looked around with yet more uncertainty. "There aren't wolves out here... are they? I've never seen any. I saw a fox once but they aren't very scary..." She tried to imagine what a wolf would look like. The fox she had seen looked beautiful and smart but if it had been bigger then she could imagine it being scary. Wolves were supposed to be darker colors too. Probably had red eyes. Like the stallion she was talking to. She still couldn't get to like the look of his red eyes.
Hayagriva was prowling closer to the place where his daughter and the stallion had met. He looked about, trying to find the two-horned head or a pair of sparkling purple wings. Even if he couldn't take care of his other daughter he could find this one and bring her back to her mother. Ayanna would worry if she was out for too long.
After his experience with Adour, he was loathe to leave his other daughter too long alone as well.
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:24 am
"Oh there's wolves around. They're larger than a fox and they like to hunt in groups. They don't look too scary either, but that doesn't mean they won't try to take down a young foal if they think its injured."
After a pause or two, Cohna looked down at the young Samsara. He had the feeling that he still intimidated her to some extent. It was true that he caught her off guard some, but she should be past that by now, or so he thought. So he lowered his head some to stare right into the younger horse's eyes with his own in an attempt to seem ominous or something like that as he spoke up once more.
"You better toughen up kid. They say wolves can sense fear... If you're confident enough, it may avert them, but otherwise... who knows?"
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:03 pm
"Maybe I just ought to stay closer to Dad..." Everything about Samsara's body position betrayed her insecurity and nervousness. Her ears were tilted backwards uncertainly and she shifted from hoof to hoof. Her wings wouldn't stay still either and they flipped open and close as she shifted.
"He has to be around here close..." She lifted up her head and raised her voice in a yell. "Dad? Where are you?" She hoped he'd come soon... she didn't know if she wanted to be alone with this stranger much longer...
Haya's ears pricked up. Had that been Sam's voice? He hurried into a trot and thought he saw the glimmer of something purple. There she was.... and a strange stallion standing nearby.
His silver eyes narrowed. What was that stallion doing do his daughter? He didn't call out yet but hurried his pace, cantering towards them with mane billowing behind him and serpentine tail lashing.
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:17 pm
While Samsara stood there full of unease, Cohnachan watched and waited to see what she would do. After she had called out for her father, he glanced around and soon saw another stallion headed in their direction. The approaching male had a few more Kalona features about him than Samsara did, but that didn't make any difference.
Keeping a neutral expression, he just awaited for the other to come in closer before speaking up.
"Ah, so you were around. Guess you didn't hear your daughter shout in pain earlier... unless you didn't care," he said with a snort.
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:04 am
"In pain?" The angry words set Haya's tail to lashing at an even greater rate. This stallion had hurt his daughter? "Get away from her!" he bellowed. He stepped to his daughter and stood over her in a protective rage. His temper had been close to breaking for the past few days and he wouldn't tolerate anyone hurting his offspring.
Samsara cowered beneath Haya though it was as much hiding from her angry father as from the stranger. She had only seen her father in one of these moods a few times and each time it was frightening. "D-dad... he didn't hurt me. I f-fell while flying."
At her current location Haya couldn't look at her but he did fix the other stallion with a piercing and angry look, still expectant of an answer.
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