Riodinidae was walking through the forest edge, where the large field of flowers met the trees. It was beautiful this summer and the butterfly's were hatching from their cocoons and emerging into the world. Rio loved nothing more then watching th butterflies move about so gracefully in the world. They were beautiful and he loved them. He wished he could fly so badly, to have wings as beautiful as the colors of his own coat....that would be ideal. Alas he was just a unicorn and while is horn could do amazing things like heal wounds he could not fly and that was what he really longed to do.
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How long had it been since she'd split off from her twin's side to tackle the world alone? In all truth, Astoria wasn't a solitary creature by nature. She was a creature of the night, one of the last of the fallen Nocturnes. She didn't like to remember back to that night, where her world was ripped apart in a flash of lightning and bloodshed... It wasn't a memory that she liked to relive and since splitting from Cade's side, she'd taken to being out more during the day. The sunlight, while she would never worship it like Cade always did, was a nice change of pace. A nice little block in her thoughts, when the flowers bloomed and the butterflies danced past her head. And it was warm... And truth be told, there weren't many people out and about at night. Sometimes that was good, but sometimes all she wanted to do was find a pretty boy and have a conversation with another living creature... So when her blue eyes landed on the butterfly marked prism stallion, her mood lifted and so did her charming smile.
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Rio hadn't noticed the female yet. A large bright colored butterfly landed on his nose and he laughed brightly, causing it to fly away. He went prancing off after it laughing. "Oh how i wish i could fly! TO be like you pretty butterfly! Free and able to see things from above! Able to go far places and touch the clouds!" he said as he seemed to dance about in the flowers with the butterflies. He did so carefully, lifting his legs high so as not to trample all the flowers around him. He turned in a circle with another laugh and saw the female suddenly. "Oh..." he said blushing, not that one would be able to tell that well, and his ears shyly went back. "Sorry...did you see all of that? Im not...ALWAYS a goof ball..." he said with a small chuckle...cause he was lieing he pretty much always was one.
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Tor stood ankle-deep in the flowers, bees buzzing around her legs as they sampled the nectar, and she watched the darkly colored stallion with curiousity. Watched him prance about like a colt, giddy with spring, but in a way, it made him easier to watch. His innocence. She was once innocent like him... With no cares in the world. Her smile threatened to falter, but she forced the negative thoughts from her mind, curling her claws in the dirt. He was pretty--black painted with the colors of the rainbow, with a long leonine tail and a spiraling horn. Unicorn, then. Said to be pure, some of them even skilled healers. Though this guy just seemed young and high on life. When he turned to her, her smile was amused. "I thought it was rather fanciful," she replied easily, her voice light and silken. "But wings aren't all they're cracked up to be..." She spread a leathery but feathered wing out at him, grazing his cheek with the claws at the very tip but not enough to hurt him. Most looked down on kalonaborn, and she was very clearly one of them. "You seemed happy."
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She was pretty when she smiled at him and he looked over her. Interesting colors! Bright like he was! Lots of neat patterns and she had wings! He looked over her wings and then over her and smiled. "Fanciful huh? Never thought of it that way before. But i suppose that it could be that. I just didn't want to hurt the flowers." he said as she extended a wing to her. "Well their still handy to move about like the butterflies do." he said not seeming to mind the way that she touched him with the tip of her wing. He moved a bit to look over the wing and inspect it closer for as long as she let him. "This is still a pretty wing! I like it a lot!" he said sniffing at the feathers and wondering how far she had come to smell so neat and to be the mix that she was.
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She watched him, head canted to one side as her ears perked up, listening to his voice. He seemed very young, but he definitely wasn't a yearling. Maybe it was his spirit? His innocence. "It kind of looked like you were dancing with the flowers," she murmured, flicking her spade-tipped tail behind her, her claws and her tail still hidden by the long grass and flowers. But he didn't seem apprehensive despite the horns atop her head. At his words about her wings, she blinked, a little taken aback. "Thank you?" she said, giggling lightly when he sniffed the feathers, tickling her. She pulled her wing back, folding it carefully to her sides. "But I think you would be better suited to flutter wings... Then you could truly fly with the butterflies... My wings are good for long distance, but only up high in the clouds." She paused, lifting a clawed paw, birdlike in her actions. "I am Astoria, of the Nocturne. My sister calls me Tor."
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Rio smiled as he watched her pull her wing back into her side and was a little sad he couldn't look at it any more but he knew she didn't know him and he was invading her space. "Oh sorry. I have never met someone like you let alone someone with wings like yours. I would love flutter wings if i got the chance to pick mine. But any wings would be nice honestly." he said as he watched her lift one clawed foot. He danced a little bit in place as he lowered his head and looked over her foot. "Im Riodinidae but everyone calls me Rio. It is a family of butterfly known for their petal like marks on their wings and metallic color." he said with a smile still looking over her legs and feet. "You have the most amazing parts! Oh um i mean...everything. Not...do not take that as a bad thing i think its fascinating! Can i see your tail?" he asked as his eyes looked over her back and towards her tail but he didn't move closer to it till she gave him permission.
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He was so...different than anyone else she'd ever talked to. So exhuberant, like a puppy who needed to inspect every inch of their new home, and it made her grin for some odd reason. Softened the ice she usually kept shielded around her heart. She'd lost too much to get attached to anyone, but... Still she wanted a friend. Riodinidae. What a mouthful, but then again, so was Astoria. "I like Rio," she replied easily and as he took notice in her claws, she flexed them with a laugh. "Parts, huh?" she teased. "A lady is more than her parts." She flicked her tail to him, angling her body so it twapped at his muzzle gently. All of her was painted with rainbows, much like him. She got it from her kalona mother... "I am called a gargoyle by some," she said quietly, her smile fading. "Nocturnal, of stone and feather. My mother was kalona, on the run from her herd and my father was a rake, a feathered hippogriff. My twin looks exactly like me, except she's pale like the moonlight."
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She was so fascinating! It was like seeing a new butterfly he had never seen before. He did not mind her bopping him on the nose with her tail and laughed as he looked over the neat tip to it. "Its long and thin like mine but its got a neat tip! I just have fluff!" he said as he looked over her and then looked up at her when she called her self a gargoyle. "But gargoyles are said to be ugly and not too nice. I think your beautiful and very friendly! I don't care if you have claws and fangs and different wings. Your you and that is nice! And you are nice and not in the least it ugly." he said with a smile as he looked over the female and then frowned. "Oh well i mean um well i don't mean that in like a flirty way ya know i just mean...you...don't look like a....like a gargoyle." he said with a smile.
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Tor grinned at his enthusiasm of meeting a kalona-hybrid when many, she knew, would flee. True, she had leathered wings and fangs and true, she did use them. But she wasn't like her aunt. She wasn't a bloodthirsty monster who ripped foals from their mothers... "I like your fluff," she said as he began to ramble on about how nice she was. Again... It kind of threw her. Especially because Tor never considered herself "nice". Friendly, charismatic? Yes. Nice was for her twin, the halcyon wonder... And when he fumbled over his words, she had to laugh. "Thanks. But in our herd, gargoyles are a sign of good lineage. Royal lineage..." She fell quiet, shaking her head. "But our herd is gone. Torn apart. I don't even know if any of them are still alive. Just me and my twin sister. If you think I'm nice, you'll probably love her..." She laughed again, but this time it was hollow. She shook her head. "Thank you. For not fearing me for my fangs."
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He smiled and flicked his tail as he rolled it off. "I do not mind anyone as long as they are not trying to eat me. And i can defend my self if someone tries. I might not win but i wont go down easy." he said with a smile as he looked over her. "Love her? I couldn't love someone i wasn't mated to. I might like her as much as i like you maybe but if i was to go off colors or anything i like your colors more if you said shes more pastel. I like bright colors. And your much more bright. So i think i will like you more any ways. But its ok. I just met you so i don't know if we'll keep being friends but i like you for now and hope to like you longer!" he said with a smile. "Want to go see more butterflies!? Or go play in the lake? I like swimming. Do you like swimming?" He asked as he smiled. "Fangs are just fancy teeth and as long as you don't bite me im good with them." he said with a happy laugh.
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