(PRP) May Flowers Forgetfulness

[Nyx Queen of Darkness]

 

[Nyx Queen of Darkness]

Valena Martell pushed her satchel back onto her hip.She had had a dream about this place, a place she had never been--a gorgeous meadow. But overlaying the whole scenic few was the the racing heartbeat of someone in pain--the agonized sound of their breathing.

It terrified her, because Skadi was out hunting. She was what Valena considered a bloody soquili. No matter where or what she did, blood and fighting would always seem to find her even if she had the most pure of intentions. Unhelpfully though, Skadi's intentions were seldom if ever pure.

But she had heard the breath rattle in her dreams, felt the searing pain until it woke her. And the only clue, the only thing that she could decipher were the poppies which Skadi had told her about. They were use to sedate or incapacitate someone who was seriously wounded or ill. All of the omens of her dream, this night time prophechy led her to believe that someone perhaps even her lover Skadi were coming to her in need of these.

It'd taken her two days journey to finally reach the meadow, after a lot of getting lost and following the wrong rock formations as guides--but she was finally here. In a field of flowers.

Valena waded into flowers, all the way up to her belly almost. She didn't know much, if anything about flowers except this one. And she knew enough of about what wrong assumptions others might make to not ask for directions to them.

A bright orangish red color appeared in the distance and she started angling herself that way.  

[Nyx Queen of Darkness]

Valena Martell noticed the other soquili in the field. The mare had not seen her yet. It would be stupid to hide or act strange, Valena tried to keep herself as normal as possiple as she moved in a more meandering path to the orange flower. She paused to pick a few different colored flowers as though she was picking a boquet. Maybe the other mare would just wander--

She couldn't believe her luck as the other mare made her way to a small stream with purpose. Valena's steps picked up slighly and her heart started to slow down as she got closer to the flower she'd come to find. Skadi had told her that the seeds were good, but it was the petals and stamens that had the most power in them for relief. Valena just realized she had no idea what a stamen actually was. She could ask the other mare, but that would be suspicious. It'd be better to just harvest the whole flower carefully and get back.

Her dream had only shown that it was dead of night when someone came injured. She did not know who or what night. She knew pretty much nothing at all, except she had to do this. Her heart in her throat she approached the orange blossoms right as the other mare turned her way. Valena utterred a curse under her breath as she tried to get her heart out of her throat. The best she could hope for was that the mare wouldn't talk to her, but that was unlikely. Valena would just have to brave it out then and make away with the suspicious flowers before anyone caught on.  

[Nyx Queen of Darkness]

The other mare looked at her and worst yet, she smiled and spoke with her. The first rule in stealing something or sweet talking someone was to act like you weren't. Create a diversion. At least that's what her mate had said, but she could steal the fur from a fox before it would even notice.

The only way was through, so she dived in.

Valena smiled quite shyly, "Oh, I'm sorry I wasn't paying attention either. I was just enjoying the meadow." Her mind whirred as she tried to think of what to say, "My mate loves orange so I thought I'd get her some of those." She pointed casually with her hoof pretending to have no idea what they were. "I mean, I think those are orange enough, don't you?" Good, she'd said something disarming.

This should be way easier, but she hadn't spoken at court in an age. She hadn't spoken to anyone in the dream world but Skadi in an age either. Hopefullly she was coming off as too much.

She moved forward and started to harvest the flowers as casuallly as possible while keeping them intact. The other mare was going to notice....But she had to keep casual about it. As though, this was just how one picked flowers.  

[Nyx Queen of Darkness]

Valena felt her body stiffen for a moment when the other mare said poppies, but she forced air through her lungs. "OH! She'll be so delighted to know the name!" She smiled sweetly at the other soquili. "You've been so helpful. I should take these to her now. She's uhm, eager to have some orange flowers. None but the brightest orange would do." Valena felt herself taking it a step too far. There was no way that this mare wasn't suspicious by now.

"It's been lovely to meet you, I should just..." Turning tail as quickly as possible Valena took off running through the flowers scattering pollen everywhere.With two mighty pumps of her wings, she took to the air and disappeared as quickly as possible.

She felt it probably wouldn't be good to show her face there again, even if it was a lovely flower field.