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 Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 1:17 pm
Meena was seeing none of it. It could have been storm clouds and lashing rain as far as she was concerned. Everything around her was bursting with life, fertility, and lets face it, if she had to hear the squirrels in the woods at it one more time she would go insane. Everyone and their partner was doing their level best to say 'Hey look, we're a couple, why aren't you?'
What was wrong with her? She thought she was okay looking, her temper (when she wasn't in a mood like right now) was generally pleasant, and she'd once appreciated a pretty summers day. She couldn't bend her mother nor her sister's ears again about her current funk, she had a feeling that only the fact that they were related was stopping them from disowning her. She didn't have any close friends either, just Soquili she knew in passing.
'That's it!' she exclaimed loudly, as she stomped along, the Lake in the near distance now.
'I'm giving up on males, and having a family. I'll be a..a..spinster auntie forever.'
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:11 pm
It was impossible for such a beautiful day to go unnoticed and already Loyal Heart was out walking amongst the tall grass, tail swaying merrily behind him while his canine ears perked upwards with glee. The warm, summer day already was causing the birds to sing, insects to hum while the whole world seemed to be in tune in one melodiuos symphony. Summer was the time where, like spring, life was almost bursting at every seam; flowers stretching across the open valley in great patches, new foals and other creatures making an appearance within the world and the delicate sweet shoots of grass making everyday meals refreshing with a certain newfound taste unlike the dull, dry grass. The stallion never minded seeing others paired, others so happy and those who had fallen head over hooves in love as it was, simply, a summer of love!
Loyal Heart, though such a name was simply his formal name to many as his real name was Laith, reveled in the idea of love and such a topic seemed to make his heart swell yet such a thing he himself had yet to find. And why? Was something wrong with him? Of course not! He liked to believe that it wasn't his time yet to find love and one couldn't always go around searching for it- sometimes love would find you when you least expected it to and that made it all the more fun in his opinion.
As he meandered farther towards the lake, the auromatic and soothing scents of summer seemed to flood his nostrils causing the stallion to smile wide and exhale softly.
"Can't beat a day like this," he grinned, merrily strolling through with the lake only lengths away until a voice seemed to break through the afternoon silence.
Alarmed and curious, his floppy, canine ears perked upwards as his eyes widened slightly, narrowing across the open terrain towards the lake where he could see a figure not too far away from him. Her angry exclaimation seemed to cause him to stop in his tracks, slightly perplexed and curious. Though the first thing that seemed to cross his mind was wonderment of how anyone could be in such a blue mood while the day was simply fantastic? Laith pursed his lips, brows furrowing as he did hope that the mare was okay aside from her outburst.
Something about giving up on males and having a family?
Oh dear.
His heart ached as he sighed, biting his lower lip and he nodded his head to himself. The best thing he could do was to help cheer her up, right? Of course! Continuing with a casual stroll, the stallion kept going as a warm, pleasent smile stretched across his maw."Afternoon, Miss!" He called out jubilently as a light breeze wisped against his mane-less neck. "I hope you're having a good day." Already he knew that the answer was slightly obvious but try as he might he wasn't going to actually tell her that he knew the answer, he was just hoping he could start general conversation with her and then, perhaps, try to help lift her weary spirits.
"Nothin' like summer, eh?"
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:41 pm
Meena would have been thinking along the same lines; were it not for the fact that one of her sisters was a mother twice over, and a grandmother, and her other (younger!) sister was also talking about having found someone that she thought might be her mate. She would be able to think that there was time, if it wasn't for the fact that she felt old, and discarded.
Her ears twitched, and she turned. Inside her eyes rolled skywards, and she cursed whatever impish being it was that had the puckish sense of timing. Yes, it would have to be that she would make such a statement out loud and in front of a stallion to boot. And what a strange stallion he was too, those ears! And no mane. How very - odd.
'Afternoon,' Meena replied, finally remembering her manners, and stopped staring long enough to answer him.
'I wouldn't remember what a 'good day' is to be perfectly frank, and I've had seen and heard quite enough to know that everyone else is liking the summer far more that I am.'
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:59 pm
For the moment he offered yet a warm, friendly smile as he nodded his head. Already it seemed that something must be terribley wrong with the poor mare as from what he could tell she seemed down in the dumps! Loyal Heart tilted his head slightly, chuckling. "Aw, well come now! Sometimes the only way to have a good day is to let yourself enjoy it, Miss!" There was only so much the world could ever do to comfort and please ever single individual and for thos who have yet to find satisfaction and pleasure- well, truth be told they were the ones who often needed to dig their hooves deeper and take pleasure in the small things. Though already it seemed as if the mare had had too many unpleasent days that had passed her perhaps the best had yet to come.
"Its because everyone out there is care free and not waiting for the world to change I think," he commented, looking around as the world itself seemed to be rolling by with a perfectly good day along with a mare whose satisfaction and happiness seemed all but depleted. "Sometimes no matter what happens you just have to roll with the punches. Everyone gets into a bit of a funk but whose to say you have to live it everyday?"
Advice could only go so far but at least he was trying to, hopefully, cheer her up though it seemed a bit of a gradual process. Well, he was ready!
"Co'mon! All you have to do is just smile- you know they say a smile away keeps the two-leggers away," he laughed. "And before I forget my manners I'm Loyal Heart or Laith if you perfer. Loyal Heart is more of a formal name back where I'm from but Laith seems to at least sound normal around here." Casually his tail swayed behind him as his rather peculiar canine ears perked upwards while, again, a smile simply couldn't be kept off his maw.
"What about you Miss?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:38 am
'And sometimes the only way to get through things is to wallow,' Meena came back with. Enjoy it. She felt that she couldn't see past what she imagined were her failures. After all, there had to be a reason she was feeling this way, lonely more than anything. Had she tried enough to make friends? She thought that she had done. She thought she'd made a good impression with the stallion with the pretty words as well..
'I don't think I want the world to change. Just my little bit of it, really, you think that's too much to ask?' she wrinkled her nose at the stallion. He was one of those excessively cheerful, look on the bright side ones wasn't he? Ergh she thought. And then she stopped that thought with a slightly stricken look on her face.
She'd been that before hadn't she? She remembered that when she was growing up everything was to be enjoyed, though it seemed like a distant memory now, and almost as though it was another mare.
Meena felt panicked now, was she going to be grumpy forever now? Even the thought scared her. Her gaze had moved off Loyal Heart, or Laith as was easier, and now she looked back at him, her ears flattened.
'Meena..' she whispered, answering him and then talked on, almost to herself.
'Oh spirits..I lost myself. I wasn't, I wasn't this way before. I was like you. I saw the joy and the good. Ohh..'
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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:55 pm
For a moment Laith stood there, ears perking up slightly as his tail swayed behind him. While this was true the stallion felt that there was so much more to see and experience other than pain and such sorrows. Even so he was certainly knowledgeable that no one can always live a 'perfect' life and would be, at some point and unknown timeframes, subject to such feelings and rocky points though rather than letting others suffer the least he could do was to help cheer them up and offer some solace. "Just remember that even in the darkest nights the dawn follows close behind," he commented with a warm smile. "Even if it feels like you can't hang on just look forward and dawn will come."
It was simple though again it was a concept that seemed to never fail him. Whatever the world had tossed at him or bombarded him with Laith pressed onward; through hell or high water, there was always a way out.
He chuckled, nodding his head. "Sooner or later it will and for the better I'm sure of it. Though in the scheme of things I'm afraid that it will happen when you're ready and when the time is right. Some things have such a funny and unexpected way of working that way."
A relaxed breath exhaled from out of his maw as he looked off to the side, watching as the light seemed to dance upon the lake which wasn't too far from where either of them stood. There was something about water and being far from home that made the stallion feel wholesome and renewed as if his entire being was suddenly rejuvinated, charged and simply bursting with curiosity. Though as he turned back to face the mare her sudden change of expression seemed to worry him, making the stallion feel a bit guilty. Had he offended her? Perhaps he said something that struck a raw nerve? Oh goodness!
Laith's ears lowered close to his skull while his brows knitted in concern. "Are- are you alright..." he had stopped, arching a brow as she nearly whispered her name- something that he had pondered and hoped that he could extract from her but it seemed that good fortunes were working. "Meena, is it? Well I do hope I haven't offended you."
His head tilted slightly, listening to her attentively and nodding his head. "No ones perfect- we all get lost along the way," he replied, almost reassuring her with a smile and another small nod of his head. "Its not too late and not all is lost. You just need someone to show you the good."
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:39 pm
'Lately all I've felt is night, like dawn would never come. But. Maybe you're the morning?' Meena thought that sounded dumb, but he would never know how much he'd helped her. It was a small step; the realisation that she'd fallen so far into her current state of mind that she'd lost who she was, the mare she'd grown into, and she'd need to make many more before she regained her old sense of self, but it was a step.
'You haven't, not offended me at all.' she assured him, still lost in her own thoughts. If it wasn't for this funny eared gentleman!
'The last stallion I came across,' she said slowly, talking as if from far away, her words quiet at first.
'I was terrible to him, cross examining him, accusing him of being like the stallion that made me think he had feelings for me. I was awful, I'm so ashamed of that. I think I might have even done the same to you, if something you said hadn't shook me out of this. I would have stood here and accused you only of talking to me because you thought you would get something in return. And you haven't. You've given me a gift in fact.' she let out a long breath, feeling as though she'd been holding onto it for months on end.
'Thank you Loyal Heart.'
Meena gave him a smile, it wasn't broad, but it was genuine.
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