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 Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:28 pm
This is a private roleplay between Celegras (Fatal Irony) and Calixte (Mahogany Sunset).  
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:06 pm
The night was dark and deepening when Calixte and her companions stopped for rest. They'd traveled far, and had finally decided to sleep. Though the others laid down on the soft hillside, Calixte was drawn to the small wood that sat just beyond the other side of the hill. Her body was not weary at all - indeed, she was wide awake. After making sure that her companions were still, Calixte stole up and over the hill.
The grass was springy, growing up through an underlayer of moss beneath her hooves. Looking up, she found that the stars were twinkling brightly in the sky above, but all the constellations were unfamiliar. Lowering her glowing eyes back to the ground at her feet, Calixte couldn't help but yearn for some sign that her homeland had not abandoned her, even though she had abandoned it. She missed Greece, and missed everything she had left there. But she couldn't go back, and she didn't want to - she had so much more here. Here, she did not live a completely solitary and need-filled existence. She was not dependent on a single stallion for security - here, she had friends. As far as she knew, that single stallion from her past was gone, shipwrecked.
Oh, but that burned to think about.
She took a breath of the fresh air that all trees kept about their branches. As soon as she stepped over the threshold of the forest, she felt just what she'd been looking for - home. The Kawani lands were filled with forests, but not all of them were special. Not all of them were meant to be or had once been home to a nymph. Exhaling with relief at this lucky find, Cali twirled between the trees. Nothing could be better than this serenity. She let her mane send out a wordless message to the trees - just a feeling. She knew that this could all be ephemeral. But it was too ethereal, and she let the forest's beauty grip her. She was breathless by the time she stopped spinning in circles, and dizziness swam through her head.
She fell to her knees, and then to the ground, tired at last. She lay there, watching the stars through the canopy of green leaves that the moonlight turned grayscale. She felt that bliss could very well be seeping from her pores.
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 6:33 am
How long had he wandered? Since birth, it seemed to the Stallion. He had awoken to the world cold, wet and alone and hadn't yet found anyone who would change that. He'd met a few soquili in passing, but never one like him. He was different. He heard what others called him - Cerynei. It seemed oddly familiar, though he didn't know what it meant - other than "different". His lonely heart longed to find other like him, and so he wandered.
He tended towards the nighttime, enjoying the quiet calm that surrounded him and the more intimate feeling with the woods around him. It was as though they belonged to him, and him alone. He was breathing in the cool, damp scent of the dew beginning to form when a sound alerted him. There were others in the woods! He listened intently - the sounds were faint and barely distinguishable from the gently rustling of the leaves as the wind began to pick up. It was as though the wind was pushing him towards the sounds. Excitement and fear gripped the stallion as he broke into a run.
He slowed as he approached, caution taking hold. He kept to the shadows and moved quietly until she came into view. He tripped over a thick root, so shocked and perplexed was he. The mare laying on the ground before him was like HIM.
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:01 pm
Still reveling in her seemingly alternate, gorgeous reality, Cali didn't notice the nearly-silent, should-have-been-distinguishable footsteps behind her. She'd heard her people walk by thousands of times - she knew what they sounded like. But still, she didn't hear the footsteps until, with a thud, the stallion that had been sneaking up behind her tripped into the barely-there clearing she was lying in.
With a gasp, she scrambled to her feet. He was... He was one of her people? "Who are you, stranger?" she asked as cautiously and as politely as possible. She was not afraid of him - she would never be afraid of one of her own - but she could not help putting her guard up. One did not see the forest people all too often in this land.
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:36 pm
He was dumbstruck as the mare rose and fully revealed herself. She was so like him... so obviously part of the woods and nature that it took him a moment to catch his breath. "I didn't think others like me existed..." He took a cautious step forward, his voice barely above a whisper. It was as if he was afraid that a loud sound or blinking might make her disappear. "How miraculous is this.... right before my eyes is another like me. I never thought I'd see the day. Are there others?"
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:27 pm
Calixte was startled a tiny bit by his abruptness of speaking, but then, as they were both of nature's people, there was a certain fellowship that made that excusable, though they didn't know each other. "I have met one other female," Calixte said quietly. She had never before seen a male of her kind - indeed, she did not know that they existed. The forest in Greece had always had female caretakers - it just seemed to like them better, and so created them. But, if males like the before her existed, they existed. There was no contesting that.
Watching him with a weary eye as he stepped forward, she took a quick snatch out of the wind; the branches were quivering around her with excitement, and the butterflies she kept were all in a frenzy, whispering in her ears: trust him, trust him, this is good. One of her ears flicked back with mock irritation at one of the butterflies and it giggled shyly in return, sticking its long tongue in her ear. She couldn't help smiling a little.
"What is your name, stranger?" she asked, a kind of repetition of her earlier question. "From where have you traveled?"
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 5:56 am
Seeing that she wasn't going to run from him he relaxed a little. "I'm Celegras. I've been wandering my entire life and couldn't really tell you a "where" that I have come from. I'm been searching for a home for so long..." he stopped, a little embarrassed to be sharing so much personal information. He glanced about nervously. "Surely there are others, if we two exist," he said, almost to himself. He looked back at her curiously. "What's your name? And why are you here? I've not seen or heard any others in this area in some time. Are you alone?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:15 pm
Calixte nodded as he talked about wandering - she knew the feeling. She had wandered long when first she had come to the Kawani Lands. "I'm sure there are others," she replied. "There were where I am from; there should be others here...."
She turned her head shyly when she realized that she had not introduced herself. "My apologies," she said. "My name is Calixte, and I am here because I wished to have solitude for some time - I have been traveling with a pair of companions, looking for others of our respective kinds. And lo and behold, I have found you." She turned her incandescent eyes on him and smiled. "Have you found this land... comfortable?" she asked, curious how his travels had gone... and why he had set out in the first place.
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:13 pm
He smiled as she mentioned finding each other. He felt such relief. Others survive, maybe even thrive! When she asked about the land being comfortable, however, he stopped and looked around, as if just remembering the woods were there. "This land is like most others I suppose. Our people used to have our own land, far away. I was a foal there when the fires claimed it." He looked down in a respectful moment of silence for all that was lost. "There was a group that left, but my family stayed behind. We eventually tried to follow, but unfortunately we were unsuccessful." He turned away from the mare, not wanting to continue the tale. "Why do you want solitude?"
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:15 pm
Calixte gave a little 'hmm' in response while he was talking. "You grew up in the Cerynei Lands, then?" she asked, as it certainly sounded like he had. She had heard stories from Kenton - about where he was from, along with the fires that had turned the lush herdlands into nothing but scorched soil and blackened trees. In truth, she had often wondered if they would someday come across others that had had a place in the original herd, and it seemed that she had. Though Cali was sure it must be painful to relive those memories, Celegras had shed yet another bit of light on the old Cerynei Herd.
In response to his question, Cali threw her head back in a little laugh. "I have been roaming these lands, far and wide, with a pair of Cerynei - father and son. They are quite something, but every once in a while, it is nice to get away and have some alone time... Maybe even find another mare to talk to. Masculine voices can get a bit monotonous, I've found." Giving him a playful wink, Cali gave him a chance to talk. She'd been quite wordy of late, and was getting tired of hearing herself speak.
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