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 Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:06 pm
Bowing his head to avoid a low-hanging branch, Ashrialto wound his way through the forest at a leisurely walk, his thoughts otherwise occupied. He was grown now, and his brother Kato; fortunate in their friends and family... But he'd wandered little, which was much unlike the stallions of his line... And he did so now, stepping away from the teepee that his whole family gravitated around in order to protect the Shaman-Girl.
With good faith his father and grandsire would protect Tashika, the Blood-Dappled Knight moved into the darkness. Seeking something...
"We go where we will... We find what we must... We do what we can..." He rumbled to himself.
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:23 pm
 She had always wandered aimlessly as the seasons changed and her life carried on. Milky white eyes gazed sightlessly forward as she stepped carefully through the trees, her dark blue ears twitching, listening to her own steps as they echoed dully against the ground. The mare wasn't scared of the darkness as she lived in her own black abyss since she was small, her sight claimed by some unknown creature that kept her warm when the snows refused to stop falling.
Stopping a moment, the mare listened, it sounded to her that something else was out there. It sounded like they had been talking to themselves, then again it could have just been her mind playing tricks. It had been a while since the mare had heard someone, she had yet to find herself a place to call truly home. Frosted face turning upwards a little, nostrils flaring as she sniffed at the air... Well someone else was out there, and it seemed like they were coming her way?
"Well at least I'm not alone around here." The dark colored mare smiled to herself as she placed on pale hoof before the other again. "I hope at least..."
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:35 pm
Ash started at the sound of another's voice... Soft, murmuring tones... A female? And a stranger by the sound and scent of her... Ears flicking forward, then back, then forward again; the blood-dappled knight picked up his pace, interested in meeting this stranger.
"Hello?" He called softly, voice ringing pleasantly. "Is, is there someone out there?"
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:55 pm
Alaska, as the mare had been deemed by her parents, paused in her walk and listened. Had someone called out to her? If they did, they didn't seem to confident in their call. Head tilting to one side as her eyes blinked a little as she stepped forward a few more paces. She didn't know that maybe she would bump into said voice that had called out into the darkness, perhaps because of her talkings to herself.
"Hello?" she called in return after a couple moments before stopping again, really lost on where she was. "There is someone out here, if one knows where 'here' is."
Ok now she seemed like the one who wasn't too confident on what she was saying. Alaska was new to the territory and she wasn't really, 'adjusting' too well to it all. She preferred the cold and open spaces, not really the heat and trees where anything could... Well, get in her way sort of speak.
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:34 am
If someone knew where 'here' was? Well, that was a curious way of putting things... Ash smiled slightly as he thought to himself. However the new trill of speach let him alter his course to draw closer to the stranger's -definately a mare- location.
"I'm Ashrialto..." He called, voice light and friendly. "And this is the forest just outside the Kiwani village... I don't think the lands have a name... Are you lost?"
He ducked through a wall of tangled hedges, wriggling his unicorn-tail free.
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:00 am
Alaska remained still and silent for the most part, she waited for the stranger to come to her. She had felt trapped within the trees, ever being able to get out again, wandering in circles as it were. Dark ears twitching, she listened to the bushes rustle around her, though all she did was turn her head, it seemed that nothing could really, 'scare' the mare at this point. She had lived so lone in the abyss that things rarely did scare her.
"My Deem is Alaska, I come from the north where the snow always falls." She called out warmly, though her head held itself high, she was a majestic creature in personality. "It is a pleasure to know of whom I'm speaking to, Ashrialto, does one live at this village?"
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:10 am
"Alaska." He smiled. "I suppose one does live at the village, in fact many do... But I myself call the wood's edge, nearest the river, home... Along with my sire and grandsire, and those who are as good as family... We watch over the Shaman-Woman who lives there..."
He stuck his head through the last wall of greenery between them and grinned at the dark mare. "Ahh, there you are!"
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:24 am
Alaska's head tilting to one side as he said, 'Ahh, there you are!'. Was he having trouble finding her? Surely he could see better then she could, well just about everyone could see better then she could. Taking a small step forward her green tail flicked over her dark and star marked flank. She listened as he spoke of his home, though she was drawing a blank as to 'where' he was talking about and this... Shaman-woman'? Who was that?
"I'm sure ones home is lovely," Alaska nodded, "I come from the north where things are, or were always white."
was, that was possibly the wrong word to say in her case. She didn't really know what it was anymore, she could only draw up what she remembered from her foal hood. She remembered it always snowing, though the sun shown every once and a while. Here it felt like the sun shown everyday besides when the rains came to soak the earth to feed the plants.
"Please, go on about your home and this... Shaman-woman? Was it?" her head tilting lightly inquisitively.
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:09 pm
Ash grinned, nodding slightly. "Well.. Alright.. But don't let me monopolize the conversation. My family and I mostly stay in the woods or the field around the teepee, which is where any foals are welcome to stay with Tashika... Tashika is the woman, and she often goes to take lessons from the Shaman Foalen... A shaman is a wise-person, a healer and a teacher... They guide us and the two-leggers, offer counsel in times of need, mend hurts, and that sort..."
He shrugged. "I'm sure you had them in your homeland, though they might have had a different name?"
He tilted his head. "Pleasant to meet you, muzzle to muzzle, Alaska."
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:02 pm
Head tilting itself skyward for a moment before off to the side, she had to think of what they would call such humans back home. Then again she didn't know of any humans that lived as far north as she had. Shaking her head she sighed turning her nose toward the stallion's scent though had to back off a step as she felt like she was going to bump into him.
"No, I'm sorry, but I don't remember there being humans back where I had come from." She pointed out softly, It could have been that it was too cold for them up there, or something like that. I had once though that coming down here to find someone... Nevermind." She cut herself off from the idiotic thought that were clouding her mind. Many reasons she had for leaving home and coming to the summer lands of the south.
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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:42 am
"No two leggers eh? Not to worry, there's a bunch here... If you float around the village enough, sooner or later you wind up adopting one... They do so much better with a Soquili to care for them..." He laughed lightheartedly, shrugging slightly.
"My grandfather, sire and I, along with out herdmates, watch over Tashika... Being a Shaman's apprentice means she's running anywhere at any given time, so having a few groundwalkers and a pair of winds to transport her when the time calls for it comes in handy... Plus she's awfully nice, and we like being together..."
He tilted his head at the thoughts she would not express out loud. "So... What brings you down here then?"
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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:27 pm
Alaska had to shake her head as she sighed softly, there hadn't been humans up in the coldest parts of her homelands. Then again she didn't travel that fair either so there could very well have been some in the more southern area, but she hadn't the foggiest idea. Still this intrigued her about how this one told her that if she milled about the village someone would adopt her? Shaking her head again she couldn't think such a thing.
"I do well on my own, besides losing a bit of hair here and there because they get caught on something. Other then that, I'm alright. I don't really need any two leg around me." She said somewhat stubbornly as she stomped a hoof to show. "I traveled down here to explore and see what there was to... Well see. Even if I can't see a thing." She joked at her own blindness, though inside she was kicking herself for the ill pun. "Plus I was getting tired of all the snow and wind. But I think I came this way a little too early, the heat just about killed me when I first stepped away from the mountain tops."
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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:09 am
"Humans can be very nice..." Ashrialto shrugged. "I like ours, the one my grandfather first adopted... Or I would not stay with her... They are not always there because you need them, sometimes you are there because they need you... Or just because you like them..."
He flicked his tail. "But that is your decision to make. At any rate, it is lovely to smell the scents, to feel the wind... Sunrise and sunset have a feel, a scent, a sound... Those things you do not need sight to understand... After all, looking, and seeing are two different things."
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