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 Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:49 am
 (Haven't RP'd in ages sorry if it's a bit crap.) Snow covered the soquili lands as if someone had sprinkled icing sugar all over, this was Eddie's first winter, Akuba always got so excited about the winter it was the best time of the year for him.
Most of the soquili related to Akuba did not feel the cold and were selfless when it came to the winter time doing their best to keep others warm.
So Eddie took out a blanket a mother had provided him with and worse it draped over his back. Snow was new to him, he dug his cloved-hooves into the snow, it felt soft and had a soft crunch when pressure was applied.
He was starting to like snow just as much as he liked sand,
and stuck his nose in it, quickly withdrawing it and wrinkling his muzzle.
By now he had gotten used to his antlers and was now careful with them, he used them to move things and build sand castles.
He tried making a snow castle but soon it turned into ice, he frowned at it observing it, sighing.
He turned to the river, now frozen, he wondered how the kelpi survive this time of year and what they do when their rivers and lakes freeze.
No one seemed to be out or around. He wanted to help anyone feeling the chill anyway he could.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 1:51 am
The winter was long and cold and those in the river felt it too. The water was quieter, only the currents moving it about now, and the life below it's now solid surface was slow and almost seemed dead. The freezing temperature down here was impossible to escape and Naia could feel it all around her. Her body was sluggish and she always felt tired. She dragged herself about the bottom, letting the current carry her limp body for the most part.
It was only after a few moments of this that Naia found herself turned over and looking up at the icy surface of the river. She could see the morphed and demented beams of light that danced along the icy prison she was in, and she longed for it's warmth. The feeling of longing for the company of something else was foreign to the filly.
With slow lazy flicks of her tail she made her way up the the inch thick layer of ice near the center of the river. She knew it was thinnest here. She stayed there for a moment hoping it was close enough to feel the sun but it was hopeless. Naia frowned. She pondered a moment a solution to her predicament and it came to her after a minute. She turned her body around, her rum facing the ice and her tail keeping her steady with from the current. After a second of building up strength she lashed out her back legs with a violent kick to the ice. A loud thump rang out and after a second a thundering, almost terrifying cracking noise followed as the ice weakened with a fracture. She built up strength once more and with her second kick a chunk of the ice flew up and away from above her, the ice breaking in a line away from her as it followed the fracture in the ice she made. The sunlight pierced in to the cold and dark river, and as Naia peeked her head out, she could feel it's warmth envelope her.*If you've ever been ice fishing before you'll know exactly what it sound like when the ice shifts and cracks over the lakes. It's kinda like thunder and it's really quite frightening for first timers XD You can hear it in this video. Most of the small sound is wind but the really deep, quick and loud sounds are the ice.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:43 am
A loud deep cracking sound startled him, his eyes grew wide and ears flicked back looking at the river with her hooves dug deep into the snow.
Soon after a block of ice moved from it's place and soon followed a head of a filly, the sunlight bounced off her fine scales and made her glisten. Eddie gasped half in surprise and half admiring his first glimpse of the legendary Kelpi his mother educated him about.
He knew it wasn't a good idea but he decided to venture out onto the ice-caked river, he found no difficulty walking on the ice because of his inherited hooves, but still he did walk carefully. He smiled determined to get the the point of which the ice broke, but didn't get too close, finally he decided to speak,"Hello, I'm Eddie and who are you? If I may ask?"
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Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:13 am
Naia's guard had dropped unusually low for the leery foal. Her eyes had drifted shut and she basked in the warmth that surrounded her. The blood in her veins continued to pump slowly, as if she were asleep, but the warmth on her face spread to her whole body with a shiver down her spine. As she warmed, she failed to notice the sound of hooves on the ice. It wasn't until he spoke that her head shot wildly towards him, her eyes wide with fear. An unusual reaction for some, but only the same old for Naia.
She dove messily back in to the icy water, splashing it about out of the hole she had made. She hid in the darkness around her, staring up at the misshapen black mass of shadow on the ice, telling her where the foal stood. She stayed silent, the only proof of her existence anymore was the briefest glimmers of the sunlight on her scales as the water ebbed and bent the sunlight towards her. She was still.
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