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 Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 5:40 pm
At the very edge of the forest, where the trees finally thinned enough to allow for complete visibility, there was a river. It was a windy river, full of twists and turns, that flooded nearly every wet season. Those seasons were the worst, according to, well, everyone who had to deal with the river during that time. The river became muddied, constantly dragging into it debris that made it nearly unsuitable for drinking. As the winter came to a close, it was quickly nearing that wet season, when the skies would remain gray for days on end and the clouds rid themselves of all the tears they had to cry. This left a certain mare a tad bit grumpy on this day.
Kipenzi loved the river, most times. On a good day you could see across it, viewing the full plains and sometimes, sometimes she swore she could even peek the ocean on the other side. Those? Those were the best days. Today was not one of those days, but a good day all the same. Kipenzi's favorite day-end activity was the watch the sun set over the river, and that's what she was doing at this very moment. However, she kept getting distracted by the nagging though that soon the moisture in the air would liquify and leave her sopping wet for moons and moons. It was difficult to enjoy the transition into spring when it brought so many bad things with it.
Mulling on the topic of bad things, Kipenzi's thoughts flickered to her friend Kintori. They weren't really friends - they didn't really speak much, but they inhabited the same chunk of land and for that reason Kipenzi thought of the other mare as a friend. It was nice to have that presence around, at least. Comforting. Except recently Kintori had been rather distant. She'd seemed to have gone a bit crazy in the more recent years, and even moreso lately. Kipenzi was the first to admit that she was a wanderer, prone to complete disappearances for moons at a time, but Kintori wasn't like that - she was always much more grounded and stable, but in the last few moons she'd been just... vanishing for days and days. It worried Kipenzi. She wanted to ask what was occupying the other mare so much, but it felt... invasive somehow. They weren't all that close and Kipenzi really wasn't the type to poke her head where she didn't belong.
Sighing, she stepped forward and lowered her mouth to the river's water and drank slowly, enveloped completely in her thoughts of Kintori. All she wanted right now was for the other girl to be okay. Kipenzi never seemed to encounter strife, but Kintori constantly appeared on a roller coaster of emotions. Although she could be rather off-putting, Kintori didn't deserve that kind of trauma. She deserved, in Kipenzi's opinion, the absolute best. Just like everybody else.
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 6:05 pm
 The air in the forest grew colder as the sun sunk deeper and deeper towards the edge of the world. Now that the winter was ending, all the days seemed to go like that. Warm and cozy throughout the day, then dipping to chilly and arid at the first sign of darkness. Darkness. That was all Kintori really felt in her heart recently, and it was rather worrisome. The mare had always been the cheery sort. Vain and pompous, yes. Prone to using others, yes. But overall quite happy. Just like her coat, she'd always thought - bright and beautiful. However several events had taken place in the past few years that had started to harden Kintori.
As a young adult she thought she'd had a complete and total grasp on stallions. They were easy, she'd always said, easy-to-read, easy-to-please, easy-to-leave. Cue the glittering smile, glinting eyes. In her mind stallions weren't complicated, and they could be manipulated without much effort. Unfortunately she found out the hard way that that was not the case. Cue Helberd, the handsome Cerynei trotting into, then out of, her life. It had been a short dalliance, and she'd expected not much would come of it. When she realized she was pregnant she was horrified. Foals were never in her plan, and she was so young! Always a selfish mare, the second she had the baskets she left they nearest where she'd last encountered Helberd and then fled, far and fast, away from them. Kintori shut her eyes heavily at the memory, willing it away.
Then, just in time, Soren wove his way into her life. Complicated feelings for Helberd and her terrible position as a "mother" aside, she fell for Soren immediately. This was unexpected and completely out of character for her. Chalk it up to hormones and a need for something new, but she fell hard and fast. Before soon they were spending every moment together. She distinctly recalled Kipenzi once commenting on the extra added glow to Kintori's appearance. The mare had been happier then ever. But then, she'd gotten lost in the forest. Lost. In her own forest. She could find Soren nowhere. It had been many moons since that time and though every once in a while she searches again for his steel blue coat between the trees, she knew he was gone. There was no telling what had happened to him. But Kintori realized, after long periods of searching, that it was time to give up and move on. Time to make friends and get out of this forest she called home.
Home. The other mare she lived with, Kipenzi, was always her first thought when imagining home. The mare, although quite the adventurer, always seemed to show up at just the right times. She was a rather sweet mare, all strangeness aside, and Kintori had a distinct fondness for her. Mind now on the other mare, Kintori wondered where exactly she was that she wasn't around to exist as a comforting presence at this time. Working through her knowledge of Kipenzi, almost immediately it clicked. She'd always loved the sunset, and where can you see the sunset best? The river, of course! Without a second thought, she immediately headed in the direction of the sun.
Stepping out of the thinning forest Kintori was purposeful in her strides, alerting the other mare of her presence so as not to startle her. She was rather easy to frighten, after all. Walking up next to Kipenzi, she gazed out at the setting sun with a soft sigh, then gently pressed her neck against the other mare's, clearly needing the comfort right now. But as she gazed upon the world, Kintori realized it would all work itself out. Everything was going to be okay.
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