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 Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:41 pm
 Light had been breaking through the murky water of the big pond she resided in, filtering down to light the entrance of her lair. Shiny trinkets and bobbles shimmered and danced in the light causing her to watch the light. Still, she wanted more.. wanted to add to her collections.. Sure she could cross the pond and nick something from her father's stash but why risk it.. besides thieving from his was just bad form. Bullying her brother around was amusing but she even would 'make amends' and cuddle him after shoving him around and other wise rustling his fins till he had stormed out of the water. She was just proving that she was dominate in her own way a test of which sibling had more gall than the other. She loved her family in her own way but siblings would do what they will even if they were some times.. mean to the other.
She left her lair behind and swam to the surface, her head barely breaking the water as she glanced about. She had the pond to herself it seems, something she was use to after all her family held their own schedules. Flicking her tail, she headed for the bank, her wet mess of brown curls floating around her like brown pond grass and other muck. As she drew near the bank, she slowly stepped out, shaking her coat to get the last bits of gunk of her back.((for my sanity #006B49))
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:56 pm
(( Disclaimer! The voices that Flash Black hears and the portents she gets are just her being crazy, not any actual supernatural stuff!)) 
Flash Black trundled merrily down the river. She had no real destination in mind, just aimless wandering.That was the best sort. She liked to think that she did her best thinking while lost somewhere. Today she probably wasn't getting her best thinking done. In fact, she was humming an eerie tune along with the beat of her hooves. Her braid was so long that it dragged through the leaves beneath her but she didn't care. The end of her braid could be one huge mudball and she wouldn't care. She kept it in a braid for the reason that braids were easy to ignore and didn't get in your mouth when you ate.
Suddenly the river was feeding into a pond. Flash Black walked up to the bank of the pond and took a few steps in. The water felt lovely and cool and she watched some of the leaves floating away from her hair as it dragged through it. The surface of the water was so still that the sky was reflected above it. Not only the sky, but herself too! Entranced, Flash Black stared downwards into her own eyes. Her eerie smile grew wider. What a strange being she looked like!
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:40 pm
She turned to look back over the pond to give it her usual once over before seeing the faint ripples reaching her side. Looking up, she'd half expected to see one of her family members, not a darkly colored mare with strange markings and a white braided mane. A thought crossed her mind and she pondered things. her father had often told he that local soquili referred to him as the swamp monster of the pond who stole pretty mares away and collected them.
A grin formed and she carefully, quietly slipped back into the water. Slinking out to a decent depth, she sunk down under the water and carefully made her way over to the other bank, moving slowly so as to not bring too much attention to herself.. at least not just yet. She wanted to wait and watch this mare for a moment before popping up out of the water like some muck covered loon.
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:33 pm
Enraptured as she was by her own reflection, Flash Black took no notice of the kelpi mare's movements. She turned her head to one angle and then another. She looked at herself from one white-irised eye and then with both. What she found really interesting was her horn. Flash Black had met other unicorns before but their horns always looked so shiny and full of life. When she looked at her own it seemed as stark and bare as a naked bone.
She leaned in so close to the water that her nose brushed the surface. She pulled her head backwards as the gentle ripples ran through the water. The ripples carried with them distortions and her face twisted before her eyes. It made her a little dizzy and she finally lifted her head to stop staring downward. That had been interesting, but she had enough. Bored now, she kicked up some water and started splashing around in the shallows.
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:47 pm
The splashing of water only pulled her attentions further in.. not only that but.. the horn.. fascinating. it'd make such a nice collectible.... if she could talk the mare out of it that was.. She had no way of knowing the thing was actually attached to the mare. Brushing close to the surface of the deeper part of water, she slapped at the surface with her tail a few times causing a plunk of a noise to form. Swimming away from the splash point she'd made,her head barely broke surface enough for her to be able to eye the mare, her mane floating about like just apart of the pond muck around her head. it was now that she started to blow bubbles int the water. Luckily her father wasn't down below or the splashing would have drawn his attention too and she wasn't about to share her new find with him.. she didn't want him trying to talk this mare out of that interesting... pointy looking object she held on her head.
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 11:13 am
A splashing sound drew Flash Black's attention. She blinked and looked around and spotted a disturbed area in the lake surface. Ripples were still spreading outward from the splashes and bubbles dispersed around the area. Something large had been there and caused a ruckus. It looked too big to be a fish. What could it be?
"Come out, come out, wherever you are!" she chanted teasingly, here dark eyes scanning the surface. "Come over here and play with Flash Black!" She pranced through the water and kicked up more splashes as she did. Her strange smile was stretched eerily across her face. She didn't exactly look like a normal soquili with her distended lips and her ghoulish markings.
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 1:18 pm
She continued to watch and wait a moment water before finally lifting her head from the water. Her eyes were focused on the horn, always the horn with it's interesting form and shape.. what could it be made of? "Your splashing disturbs many a thing within these waters." She grinned a wide grin her teeth looked sharp much like her fathers oh she certainly had a mouth that looked vicious... but the air about her so far wasn't too threatening. "Are you out looking for trinkets?" She eyed the mare carefully before proceeding towards her and the shallow water. Bits of weeds and muck clung to her back as she rose out from the water. She wasn't terribly big, or small she was about average size for a mare. Finally she tore her eyes from the horn to look the mare over a bit more. "Or is it an amusing little game you'd prefer?" If it was a game then what would be the stakes? Perhaps she could swindle this mare out of that marvelous instrument on her head..
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 12:24 pm
Spying the wet mare's sharp teeth, Flash Black's mind jumped back to something that her father had taught her long ago. A rhyme for determining when to run and when not to. "If it tries to talk to you it's okay, but if it starts to chase then run away!" She sang the rhyme out loud and was pleased at herself for remembering it. She might be off balanced but she wasn't stupid and didn't want to get eaten. She was prepared to bolt if she needed to but wasn't particularly scared. The mare had fluffy ears and hooves. There was probably a rhyme about how those weren't dangerous but Flash Black couldn't remember it.
"I don't need trinkets, but I like games," she said with a smile and a flick of her muddy tail. "What do you want to play?" She gave a small giggle. "I don't want to play 'who can hold their breath underwater t he longest." She eyed the mare with a look that wasn't quite serious and wasn't quite teasing. "Played that with my brother once. He never played with me again after."
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 9:01 pm
She gave a coy little grin and eyed the mare closely. " My brother and I play that game quite often.. sadly he doesn't appreciate my water games as much as he does failing vainly everything he starts." She snickered some. "Let's see.... a game requires a prize for the winner does it not?" She circled around the other mare till she'd exited the water as she thought. "I'll wager something from my collection against something of yours.. should you win you may have a lovely shiny stone I found.. should I win.. what would you offer me?" She Eyed the mare's horn for a moment before giving yet another grin that wasn't eerie yet it wasn't warm and pleasant either.
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 10:42 am
Flash Black liked the sound of this. It'd been a while since she had convinced someone to play a game with her. Most soquili were put off by her strange appearance and manner. Finally, she found a true kindred spirit! Or something close enough, at least. She brushed the tip of the tail against the water, seemingly heedless of the mare's fixation on her horn.
"I'll give you my mane," she said perkily. "I don't use that. It isn't really good for anything." She was not exactly a vain sort of mare.
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 6:17 pm
She gave a small pout at the offer. "You're mane? Why not that shiny instrument atop your head? That looks like it'd be a splendid offer... But I suppose if all you're willing to part with is your mane then it'll have to suffice. Now for the game.... what game would be worthy the prizes offered?" She pondered even longer, her kelpie like tail swishing behind her.
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:21 am
Shiny instrument atop her head? Flash Black smiled crookedly as she realized that the kelpi was speaking of her horn. It seemed that she admired it for herself. "Maybe I'll give you my horn if you beat me well enough," she said with an offbeat chuckle. She didn't think that she could get it off her head but it wasn't as if she used it for anything.
"And we could play a guessing game. I like those." She tilted her head to watch the stranger. "We could guess when the other will die and see who is right!" She hoped that the stranger would accept. That was her favorite game. "And what is your name?" she asked with sudden clarity.
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:51 pm
"To see when the other will die eh?? I suppose it would be a long drawn out game.. but what's to stop one of us from doing the other in just to win?" She pondered this for a bit. With a sly grin, she smirked at the mare. " I'm Enakai. No abvriviation.. just Enakai..."
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:11 am
"I am Flash Black," replied Flash Black with a cheeky grin. "Like a lightning bolt at night. It flashes and then everything is black again. That's what I think, anyways. Mom never exactly told me what it meant." Her voice had an almost sing song quality to it, like she was dancing on the edge between clarity and incoherence. Her mind was the same way but this was normal enough to the unicorn mare.
"And you can try to kill me if you want." She didn't seem threatened at all, just eerily amused. "I know how I'm going to die and it isn't by you. So I don't care if you try and fail."
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:40 am
She gave a small smirk. "I've no real reasons to kill you any ways. you've taken nothing of mine I haven't offered." She flashed yet another sharp toothed grin. "Besides.. no one can truly ever know how they'll die.. things happen even a scryer and mystic could get it wrong..."
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