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 Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:21 pm
 Ali flew low in the early morning mist. She'd left home on finding out that her evil older sister Neva had dumped her three baskets with the kalona skinwalker Megapi on their parents. Ali was, to put it frankly, not looking forward to spending a lot of time at home with Neva's children around. True, Ali did hold some fragile hopes that Neva's children would take after the grandparents who raised them lovingly, but she didn't have a lot of hope. Neva was practically evil incarnate. Despite the healing she'd received from her great-niece Nightling after Neva had ripped her wing, Ali's wing still ached in the cool and damp of the misty early winter morning, and she knew she'd have to land soon, to rest her wing a bit. Angling toward the ground, she straightened her forelegs to touch down and gallop several yards through the powdery snow below. The mists were slowly clearing to reveal the fragile sun of the new day, and Ali stood out against the snow, her black coat shining with frosty stars and her golden bells on the ankle of her left foreleg jingling as she slowed to a sedate walk. Her warm breath from her pink muzzle made little puffs of smoke in the icy air and a soft breeze caught and blew back her long, silky gold-white-and-blue mane and tail. Looking around with her golden eyes across the shyly revealing landscape, she spotted a faint lavender shape on the horizon.
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:38 pm
 With useless wings pulled in close to her sides, a young mare walked slowly, trudging really through the snow. Ears laying back against her head, short mane looking more more then a ruffle in this weather. She envied those that had longer, fuller manes and tail that could cover more in the cold. Shaking her head, mane flicking back and forth just a little. Pale blue eyes watching her own pale pink and lighter blue hooves as she trudged. Mindy never did have much confidence, not since she had left her father a while back. To strike it our on her own, now she was terrified, simply terrified. From the few she had met, she didn't know just what she was yet.
Tongue escaping her black tipped muzzle, she ran it over the fangs that she didn't know from who. Her father Minty didn't have any, nor did her... She couldn't remember. Stopping a moment as she shivered, wings fluttering a little at her sides, Mindy looked up for once to see just where she was. This was strange, she didn't know anything about this place, even for as long as she had been wandering. "Now where am I?" Mindy muttered to herself as her ears perked up a little, the faint, very faint sounds of bells caught her attention as something black seemed to be moving. Squinting, she remained still, short tail trying to tuck itself close to her body. This was going to be a frightful morning, Mindy could just feel it in her bones.
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:44 pm
As Ali got closer, she could see that it was a lavender wind mare with a vaguely familiar looking mane and tail...at least in color...maybe something about the wings, too.... Tossing her head, she broke into a trot, curious about this lone wind mare. "Good morning," she called to the lavender mare. Now that she came to a halt a yard or two away, she recognized the colors of the mane as being similar to her mothers, and the wings looked rather like her parents' wings...didn't her eyes look like her mother's eyes?
It crossed Ali's mind that it was entirely possible she could be related to this lonely mare, and she smiled. She did spot the fangs, but didn't flinch. Didn't kalonas have sharp teeth? And wasn't her beloved Blake's trustworthy teacher a kalona? So this mare wasn't scary. At least, Ali sincerely hoped that this mare was as friendly as most of Ali's relatives were.
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:53 pm
She watched, listened the sounds of bells came closer, now they seemed to race, one jingle mixing with another to almost have no sound at all. Stepping back, she debated on turning and fleeing in the other direction. Ears falling back she did take a few steps backwards, wings flaring open, but beat uselessly, they never did get her off the ground. After a few minutes she closed her wings again and looked away, lips giving a deep frown to cover the fangs that had been most assuredly seen. Mindy was bent on keeping her silence, but when this other winged mare spoke, she had no choice. Turning her head back to the dark and richly colored mare, she bowed her head a little.
"Good morning" Mindy greeted, though her voice was soft, almost like she were too scared to speak openly or even at all. Lifting her head back up some, her gaze still down cast. Mindy wasn't going to stare at this mare, she had been taught that staring was rude and shouldn't be practiced. Wings giving another shake, they settled as an ear turned toward the mare. There was something about her that was strange, but Mindy couldn't quite place it, she hadn't seen many others with wings, other then her father of course. Minty was certainly different from this mare, his hair was curly and springy. Hers was long and elegant. "Seems I'm not the only one up this early." A soft offer of possible conversation, but Mindy always seemed to be 'beating around the bush' sorta speak.
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:59 pm
Ali paused, since she seemed to have startled the mare. She pricked her ears forward in a friendly fashion, to express she meant no harm, and generally did her best with the rest of her body language to express that she was friendly. "True," Ali agreed in her own soft voice. "Such a lovely morning this morning." Ali was also in a mood to beat around the bush, especially given how this mare had backed away. "My name's Ali, short for Alienore. What's yours?"
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Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:32 pm
Mindy watched this mare that called herself Ali, short for Alienore. That certainly was a strange name if she ever did hear of it, but then again she had heard names that were odder then that. Her own wasn't exactly the common of names itself. Turning sideways, her ears twitching as she located her escape routes if this happened to turn foul. "Mindy, my father called me Mindy." She complied, thinking that it was only fair that she mentioned her own name after Ali introduced herself. "It is... Nice to meet you, Ali." She would have said more, but bit her tongue. Saying too much was always what got her into trouble at times.
Head lifting to glance longingly to the skies, she sighed and lowered her gaze. She knew her wings wouldn't let her fly, but there was always that longing to see herself off the ground much like her father. Shaking her head, snort mane waving slightly as she did. Glancing back to Ali she gave a half hearted smile, even though her fangs were well insight. "So... What brings you all the way out here? Getting away from someone?" She asked trying to start up a conversation, but she often failed at it as she poked her nose into too many personal things. Much like her question about getting away from someone.
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Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:37 am
"Mindy," Ali repeated. "It's a sweet name; it suits you well, I think, because you seem to be a sweet and pretty one." She looked away at the suggestion of getting away from someone. "My second eldest sister left her baskets with our mother. My second eldest sister is a very evil mare who ripped my wing when I was a filly and who had children with a kalona skinwalker--with a demon." She shook her head and looked back at Mindy. "Do you live out here with your father? What's your father like? I think he must have been a kind stallion," she added sheepishly.
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Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:47 pm
Mindy, tilting her head to one side a little she blinked about hearing of a demons. Shaking her head a little, she often though she was half demon because if the fangs that poked annoyingly into sight. Scuffing at the snow a little, she looked away before she was asked questions about her father. Did she mean her true father? Or her adopted one? In a sense, Mindy had two fathers, a mystery one and one who cared very much for her.
"I haven't been with my father very long after I grew up. He and grandma live somewhere else." She looked around trying to get a good idea on where. But she no idea where they would be right now, having traveled so long she had forgotten her way home. "Well they live somewhere anyways. I don't rightly remember, but father Minty was always kind to me. And really he was kind to anyone he meets. Even the demons I think, though we never met any demons while traveling." Giving a shrug she looked back to Ali. "What about you? What's your family like? Besides the demon sister?"
She wondered ears perked forwards interested for once, instead of frightful. She had to wonder if Ali's family was as nice as her own, even if she had demon sisters. Mindy how ever... Didn't have any siblings, she was an only child which saddened her a little, but she was her father's pride and joy. Even if she couldn't fly like he could and always had to run to keep up with him when he was flying.
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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:14 pm
Ali smiled. "Your father Minty does sound sweet. My family? They're almost all of them very nice. I've got three older brothers, a younger brother, and three older sisters, two of which are nice. There's my mother and father, the three baskets, and my eldest brother Andre's family. Andre has four or five children and I think seven grandkids. My older brother Eton I think I heard has three kids, but I never met them. I don't think he knows where they are or what they're like." She shook her head. "I'd like to find and meet them someday, I think they're nice like the rest of the family."
She tilted her head. "How much do you remember of your real father and your grandmother?" she asked very gently.
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