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 Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:40 am
 A small puff of white steam escaped the stallion's mouth only to disappear a few moments later. The weather had gotten steadily colder as winter approached. Dry brown leaves were strewned on the forest floor as if the autumn spirits had threw a big party only to leave the party flavors and confetti on the ground. True, the fall equinox still hadn't quite finished and winter hadn't quite come yet, but it felt like it. It only seemed like yesterday that the trees were dorned in golden robes lighting up the forest with the last of summer's warmth and color. The leaves had fallen by now. The once leaves that were bright yellow, golden, orange and crinsom had now faded into musty shades of brown. The trees were bare of color and a sense of loneliness was in the air.
Sujieko sighed. Winter was really coming, wasn't it? The woods seemed strangely silent without the usual noises of the little creatures. No doubt that they were all snuggled up in their burrows somewhere preparing to sleep the winter away with the rest of their family. Family...The brown stallion gave an irritated snort, startling a few birds out of the trees nearby. Well, he was going to try and stay as far away from them as possible, he didn't really want to be stuck in with all the turnmoil. His mind drifted off to his last memory of his mother. His mother could do without him, right? After all, every time she saw him, it always set her into an even gloomier disposition. He didn't understand half of what happened, so he couldn't be much of a help. He sighed. Whatever, it was best to keep these things out of his mind. There was no use thinking about it now after all. What was done was done.
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:13 pm
 A soft crunch accompanied her delicate hoofsteps as the crisp, dry leaves crumbled beneath her ebony hooves. Her sedate pace was graceful, fluid, for all that she walked with her nose to the ground. Even such a strange posture could not diminish her natural finesse. She had been tracking the trail of ants for quite some time now, following them on their daily routine. Observing them. Watching how they marched in their little line, soldiering on in their ceaseless communal search for nourishment to bring back to their cozy hole.
Her amber eyes shone with utter delight. She had always been fascinated by the little things in life- whether they be enchanting tidbits of information or the subtle way one's lips move. The flutter of a bird's wings, or the way love blossoms in the most unexpected ways.
The coming winter could not dampen her spirits; she loved even the way the trees shed their branches in the coming snow, preparing themselves for the renewal of Spring.
The lead ant halted abruptly, causing a series of collisions as ants all along the first third of the line stopped. It's feelers flailed maniacally as it raced back and forth, attempting to find a way around this unexpected obstacle.
It was hard, firm. A creamy hue, like spilled milk left out in the sun. Large. Very large.
Too large!
The ant's mind worked frantically as it scurried to and fro. What to do? What to do? How will we go on? WHAT TO-
Ah.
It had found the edge.
All panic forgotten, the lead ant marched on, and the trailing line curved gracefully around the stallion's hoof.
The pint-sized mare continued observing the ants about halfway down the line with single-minded intensity, unaware of the "obstacle" that loomed before her.
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:48 pm
The stallion flicked his ears at the sound of crunching leaves. Probably just another forest creature, but the noise seemed to be too loud for a squirrel or rabbit. Perhaps it was just a bigger animal, a deer or badger maybe...but still, that was still a bit too loud for even those animals. Sujieko entertained the thought of the sound of crunching leaves to be the approach of another soquili. Silly really, soquilis couldn't make such soft sounds. Well, perhaps a very light one, but the chances even there would be quite small. He sighed. He had been missing company of other soquilis for quite sometime. The lack of company seemed to be making it way into his mind that no doubt he was having delusions and enhancement of sounds that now caused him to think that the crunching of the leaves was louder than it sound be. How isolation could affect someone...
He blinked as his eyes traveled to his hooves as he felt a slight tinglying against his left hoof. A long line of black specks which upon closer examination were ants trailed around in a curve around his hoof. He moved his white hoof back slightly as not to adhere the path of the ants anymore. As he lifted his head again, he came face to face with an ebony colored soquili with white markings under her soft amber eyes. He startled, rather surprised at the newcomer and blinked, perhaps he was just hallucinating? No, the female was still there.
"Greetings." After all, no matter how surprised he was, it was always good to pay attention to etiquette. Delight seemed to slowly take over his original surprise as he realized that he was having the first company in quite a long while.
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:29 pm
The mare jerked backwards, startled. Amber eyes wide, she made a small squeaking sound and... vanished.
Well, maybe not vanished. The pint-sized mare peered upwards at the looming stallion and realized her mistake. He was not some predator who had pounced upon her with malicious intent, not even a dire mutant come to call. He was just a stallion, the color of burnt earth, and with a shocking blonde mane, but a stallion nonetheless.
All Flutters possessed the ability to change size at will, but to Tiahana it sometimes occurred... sporadically.
"... Hello." Her voice was slightly higher than usual, but still possessed the smooth, sultry tone so at odds with her innocent and even slightly naive nature. Had her coat been of a lighter hue, a charming blush would have made itself seen.
Wonderful. Just wonderful. Someone your own size (... sort of...) to talk to, and you go and muss it up by acting like they're the most frightening thing in the Kawani lands.
Embarrassment was written on her features for the world to see; her eyes were angled slightly downwards, as though she was hesitant to meet his gaze after reacting so dramatically. "I am Tiahana, might I inquire as to your name?" Names first, then the two are no longer strangers and speech may be given freely. If one does not wish for the company of the other, then one shall not give their name, and both shall go their separate ways. Basic social graces, to be observed even when she'd rather shrink away into nothingness.
The trail of ants continued onwards, forgotten and indifferent in the face of the sudden meeting of the two Soquili.
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:04 pm
The brown stallion blinked at the sudden disappearance. The shock still had not caught up to him when his light blue eyes caught the sight of a monarch butterfly standing, if that was the right word, near his hooves. He blinked again before realizing in fact that the monarch butterfly was actually a miniature black mare with a short cropped ebony black hair and white markings under her eyes unlike that the mare he had seen only half a second ago. Yet the biggest surprise to him were the big, well, they must have been before, orange and black wings not unlike those of a monarch butterfly's perched on her back. She must be a flutter then.
Sujieko had heard accounts of flutter soquilis, yet had not met one until now and he was rather startled at the encounter, rather unbalanced by the sudden size change. He blinked again as he heard the voice like the sound of a soft stream that runs through a forest clearing came from the flutter's mouth, noticing that it seemed a little high. A light blush crept on his face as he realized that he must have startled the mare with the sudden greeting and then she had changed shape instinctavely.
He paused and a smile appeared at face as the genial shock wore off,"My name is Sujieko. Pleased to meet you, Tiahana." He paused again before saying rather embarrasedly,"Sorry about startling you, I didn't mean to."
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:26 pm
Her ears flickered as she heard the warmth in his voice. She let out a brief sigh of relief when he gave his own name; so he wouldn't leave then.
"The pleasure's all mine." A shy, hesitant smile spread across her delicate features. "You need not apologize; I'm rather jumpy, after all. I suppose it comes from keeping company with grasshoppers and the like..."
She trailed off, peering up at him merrily. She moved back a few steps that she might see him more clearly; her neck had begun to ache, such was the exacting angle of her vision.
His coat was more sun-kissed soil than burnt earth, his wings a stoic ebon-grey rather than a shimmering ebony. His eyes were a shocking blue, standing out in stark contrast against the more natural coloration that surrounded it. She felt plain in comparison.
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:23 am
He smiled as he lowered his head a bit lower so he could be a bit more at her level. Though no doubt his neck would hurt some later on but upon meeting with someone else his size though she wasn't exactly the same size at this moment, the prognosis was forgotten. He noticed the small smile that had grown on the mare's face. It brightened him a bit that she seemed to like being in his company.
A soft chuckle came from his throat as he heard what Tiahana had said,"It must be an interesting life to being able to change sizes and all," He mused,"I always wondered what it would be like if grasshoppers were the same size as myself, quite shocking I would say. But intriguing none the less." He smiled slightly at the thought of all the blades of grass being taller than he was, a bit unimaginable perhaps, but that seemed the case with flutters.
His eyes drifted towards her bright orange wings again,"Your wings are beautiful." Like the sky of a setting sun caught on window panes and specks of white snow here and there...The mare was really pretty with her ebony mane and tail and her amber eyes twinkling.
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:10 pm
An amused light shimmered becomingly in her amber eyes. She quirked one brow querulously, and flashed him a dazzling grin. "Quite intriguing, truthfully. They act much as though one was a rock or boulder, hopping all about and chirping away, then falling silent when they realize that the immobile object is indeed alive before bounding away as though the wolves of the insect world were after them." She was speaking from honest experience; there was not a small woodland creature, nary a bug nor bird, that could be named with whom she had not had some amusing encounter. Such was the result of a charmed life.
Once more, an invisible blush rose to her amiable cheeks. She was certain that he was simply being polite, that his comment was nothing more than truthful fact, but... she found herself rather pleased by his words. Her wings fluttered at her side, as though eager to seek the light that would shimmer off of them and render them an ever more pleasing sight. "Thank you..." her voice was soft and gentle, her gaze downcast.
She rolled the thought around in her mind for the span of a few seconds before finally carefully choosing her words.
"If... If you don't mind my asking..." she glanced quickly at his creamy horn, then away "... how do you eat with that thing atop your head?" her innocent question was phrased with infantile simplicity. She did not mean to be rude; her intentions were quite good, but to one who is easily insulted it may come across as an abrupt and frank query. "It is angled in such a way that it shouldn't hit the ground were you to graze, but in terms of maneuvering through a berry bush or an apple tree to reach the juicy fruit?" She simply changed form, and weaved quite gracefully through the tangled limbs. How could someone so big, and with those magnificent ebony wings on top of it all, possibly savor the delicacies hidden beneath such natural labyrinths?
She peered at him with genuine interest and enthusiasm, smiling slightly in encouragement.
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:36 pm
He chuckled as he heard the mare's describe the insects’' movements. Very interesting indeed, yet it would be slightly terrifying of thinking that the world would be bigger than it already was. Quite frightening, but pleasurable no doubt. It would be quite comical if a hawk were chasing one though of course the prospect of being eaten wouldn't be pleasurable at all, and then one suddenly changed into normal soquili size. What a shock that hawk would get! Quite amusing indeed.
It was quite nice talking with this mare. Tiahana seemed to be quite interesting to talk to and herself interesting. He was really lucky to have met such pleasurable company. If only he could meet such interesting soquilis every day, but nay, that would be impossible. She was surely one of her kind, bright and interesting and nice to be around. He smiled slightly.
Sujieko blinked at inquiry. It was an interesting thought. How did he eat apples again? He paused, trying to think back to the time he had eaten those sweet juicy fruits in late autumn before responding hesitantly,"I can't recall quite clearly since it was a pretty long time ago since I last ate an apple. I think I was a foal then, so I guess it was easier for me then than now." He paused again, wondering if he had said that correctly with all those "then than"s, sounded quite odd,"The horn is a bother sometimes because of the extension of it. I mean, if I try to eat berries or anything out of a bush, it sometimes gets stuck in the branches." He gave a grin at this remembering all the times that it had gotten stuck in there when he was a foal so his mother had to pull him out,"I just try to get the fruits on the outside of the fruit tree, like the ones farthest from the trunk. Those are easier to get obviously because of the lack of tangling up. As for the ones further in...I sometimes have to break a branch or two to get to them. Being so bulky really has its downsides."
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