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 Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:51 am
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Alenazsa let out a relaxed sigh, as she nuzzled him softly beneith his chin. Her mind was reeling, though. She'd only just met this Stallion! Was her mind playing tricks on her?! No,... she wasn't listening to her mind,... she had been listening to her heart. She saw him as more than just a close friend,... she wanted him to be there for her, and she wanted to be there for him! He was alone... he had been alone. But now he wasn't.
And neither was she. Then it dawned on her. She wasn't alone now... She wouldn't have to,... stare at the sky at night, and just hope that someone would come along for her to talk to. She had someone to talk to now. Someone at her side, to stand by her and keep her warm when Winter came. Someone to help her when she was in need.
She nosed Shishio softly again, opening her eyes finaly, to stare half at the ground, half at his pearly coat.
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:27 pm
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The smile upon his faze was renewed upon hearing Alenazsa's sigh; not only could his ears detect it, but he could feel the whuff of breath puffing from her lips through the reverbations it sent throughout her skull. Those slight vibrations were small, barely detectable, but still he could feel them. They were so close... so soon... too soon, perhaps?
Shishio stared at the stars, searching for his answer in their bright glow. He saw nothing more then their usual brilliant sparkles of light, those about the moon reduced slightly and those further away shining brightest of all. Since no answer came to him, he could only assume that the answer was 'No.' He knew that he may seem silly to others, to place his fate so in the hands of the untangable stars, and yet he did not care.
"Perhaps our travels might be curved to include the soft springs that often served as my daylight home?" Or, at least, as close as he had ever gotten to having a true home. He had no ties, nowhere that called to him, and previously no others that he woudl follow to the end of the eart.
On a certain level, he mourned the loss of the companionable silence they had been walking in, but he did not wish for thoughts such as those that had been forming to interrupt his happiness.
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m r s - SUPER j u n i o r
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:23 am
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:02 pm
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The warmth radiating from Shishio's smile should have, in all rights, burned his lips off. However, there they were, completely unscathed, curved into the soft smile that was becoming ever the more common on his handsome face. He would love to show her. The water flowing from the tiny cracks in the cliff face, the sparkling fish swimming about in the small pools formed by fresh water, the first buds of spring finally blossoming on the trees and shrubbery. He cast a sideways glance in her direction, picturing how she would look among the weeping willows that spread their graceful yet gnarled roots into the water.
The smile still strong, he turned to the sky once more and scanned the horizon line. There was a lightening to the deep indigo of night there, one that was not caused by the stars and the moon rather the coming sun. To the east, the sun was rising. The dawn of a new day was near.
His brow furrowed in thought; was their something he needed to do? ...
He shook his head to clear the nagging thoughts and looked back towards Alenazsa. "We are..."
He stopped.
His ears lay pressed back tight against his head, one leg still raised in the beggining of the next step. His eyes, narrowed now, turned to the place where he had seen the first flickers of light from the sun. He remembered.
A meeting that barely lasted hours: a laugh exchanged, a question and an answer, travel, and departing. A promise to return. To again visit that place in which their breif encounter had occured, and to help the one waiting there. At dawn.
This place was far away. He would have had to leave a few minutes ago to make it their, if he were to be traveling at a comfortable pace. Now... the only way he could get there in time would be a flat-out gallop.
He pranced a few inches forwards, his ears perking forwards softly, to rejoin Alenazsa on her side, his deep eyes filled with remorse. He would have to leave her... His smile had fallen from his lips. "... I made a promise." His voice was throaty. "I said that I would assist her in her chore... She could not do it alone." His eyes searched hers, flickering from her left eye to the right as though each would tell him a different story. "I must leave you now..." he almost could not say it "... but I will return. When the sun is setting and the stars again come out to play, meet me here." He glanced at the large oak tree just to their left, a large hole halfway up the trunk setting it apart from those around it. "Here, beneath this tree. I will be here. I will be waiting."
He reached forwards and nuzzled her, his breath coming out in a soft whuff. If only... no, he would not break a promise, even to one he had only met for a little while. That was how far his honor, his sense of right and wrong, went. He would sacrifice his own happiness for even a complete stranger.
He broke apart, turned, and trotted slowly away, back towards the path from whence they had come. He looked back, unable to leave his dark beauty without one last glance. "I will be here." He gathered his back legs beneath him, the muscles tense, and sprang forwards. He looked back to the front, and set off at a full gallop... to fulfill a promise made on a whim.
Dust rose where his hoofbeats fell, marking his trail before they were sweapt away by the wind.
Behind him, standing confused on the trail beneath the tallest oak around, lay his heart. And he would return to her when the last light fell.
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m r s - SUPER j u n i o r
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:47 am
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She felt her heart sink... felt it practicly fall to mush. He was... leaving her? Already? And so soon... morning was only just dawning!
And it was for... a 'her'... another mare,.. He wasn't... No. He wouldn't do that to her. And yet, Alenazsa felt no different...
"Shishio.." though she spoke, her words where lost through the pounding hoofbeats. She watched her own heart run off to help another,... now, that space that just moments ago was filled to the brim, was empty, longing for the warmth it just had.
Her gaze wandered to the tree. She looked it over for a long moment, plastering the image in her head. She walked closer, getting an even better look. She would return here. No matter what. Even if the Teepee that her 'favorite' two-legger was set on fire, she'd still leave.
But for now... she had to leave. I can't wait a whole day, standing by this tree..that'd be too strange.
Alenazsa turned slowly, and started to make her way through the trees, through the forests. Back to her own, quiet little home. She barely did a thing that whole day. Except, of course, think about Shishio. It was... I hope he's okay, and Where could he be? Where did he go? Who is he helping? Will I even see him again tonight?
After a time, those thoughts trailed away, as she fell into a slight sleep, still standing.
When night would fall, she'd return to that exact spot... even if she couldn't find it, she'd look for it. Though even at this moment, she was facing the exact direction she'd have to be facing, just do reach that tree. She'd be there. She'd see him again. No matter what.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:51 pm
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 The moon and the stars faded, giving way to the brilliance of the sun.
In the East, the shimmer of light that had sent a stallion running from his true love slowly changed into the tip of a circle... a full half... and the sun was up, rising into the clouds to shine light upon those who walked during the day. The birds greeted the new day, sending their song to the heavens as they marked their territory and scolded fledglings who were trying to leave the nest too soon.
The sun made it's way slowly across the sky, completely oblivious to those who basked in it's glory. It knew only this: rise when the moon's light begins to wane, shine my light and block out their view of the stars, travel across this set path, then sink again and pass the torch. It did not know of the pangs that filled the hearts of two Soquili, two halves of the same soul, split apart by a promise and both bound to return to the spot where they had parted.
The sun was now settling itself down in the West, completing it's course. The moon began to shine anew, the stars came out to play.
And those two who were seperated so suddenly would soon reunite. |
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:17 pm
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Shishio's steady gaze had watched the sky throughout the entirety of that day. He would cast shadowed glances upwards when the mare's back was turned, only to paste a smile on his face and pretend that he had all the time in the world to offer when she looked back, a question in her eyes. As he had promised, he had helped her gather the juicy apples and lush grasses of the meadow, and had seen her off safely.
And now...
Now, he would fulfill a promise that the deepest depths of his heart wished to fulfill. The promise that seemed to outshine all others that had come before it, because it had been woven with the strands of new love and made firm with his words. The promise to return.
As the first star lighted the new night sky, Shishio ran. His hooves pounded the earth, churning up such a cloud of dirt that any who witnessed it would have thought a storm was approaching. He urged his legs to go faster, straining his muscles as he raced across flat ground and then mountaneous terrain. His pace was that which could not be named, no canter nor gallop as had ever before been seen. He did not need to stick to the steady beats those gates would require, he only needed to get to where he was headed. Fast.
Alenazsa's shining face filled his thoughts. The way her pearlescent hair fell so gracefully even when the wind was absent. The way her shining eyes held such intelligence. Her ebony coat, marred only by delicate roses and twining vines. How she would be waiting under the oak tree, or perhaps just coming upon it... and looking for him.
His steps faltered. Would she? Did she feel the same? True, she had been the one to first step over that physical barrier... he had responded. But had she only been caught up in the moment? Was the love he felt... unrequeted? Would she turn away from him in embarassment, plead with him to forget the events that had unfolded in the night... and leave? Was her heart already claimed by another, one with whom he could not compete? Was she only stringing him along, using him to find her brother? Would she one day walk away from him, walk out of his life, as though what they shared was no more then a passing phase?
He was not a passing phase. A bitter taste filled his mouth as he churned his legs onward, clinging to the small island of Hope while the crushing waves of Despair pounded against him. He would not give up hope. He would not rest until he again saw her face, and he would not leave unless he saw revulsion in her shining eyes.
Shishio's eyes found what he had been running to, what he had been so desperate to reach: the tree. He sped on and with a final burst of strength pushed himself to cover those last steps. He came to a halt beneath the tree, his sides heaving and nostrils flaring. His heart pounded loudly, pumping oxygen and blood wherever it was needed to fuel his flight. His ears were perked forwards, one hoof raised as his head whipped about and scanned all the ground near to him.
She was not there.
He had come, but she was not there.
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:13 pm
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And yet.. she was there. But.. he wasn't. Oh, what confusion.
Alenazsa paced back and forth.. she knew she had come to the right tree.. knew it for a fact.. she had stared down that tree earlier for a good tim, and had left herself facing the very direction, not moving an inch, all day,... unless for an extremely good reason, though she'd smartly mark the ground with her hoove, pointing where she'd have to stand and face.
But.. he wasn't there. Shishio.. he wasn't there. He hadn't come yet. It was surely night... the mare gazed up at the sky, eyes large,.. worried, alittle distressed. Again, she began to pace, her tail flicking every now-and-then. She dipped her head, as she murmured the negatives. He was lying to me..., and, He's never going to come...
Afterwards,.. she rose her head, with the positives. No... he wasn't lying... he's just.. just late.
She had to think as positively as she could.. if she let herself fall to the negatives... she'd.. probably end up crying.
...Quite truthfully,... she'd probably end up crying anyway... It was just another odd little trait she had... crying when overwhelmed with the positives and the negatives fighting within her. But... weren't most mares like that? Maybe not...
After a moment, she paused from her pacing, to stare up at the sjy. There, she saw the very stars that her and Shishio had gazed at, what seemed to her, now too long ago, even if it'd been just the night before. Alenazsa sighed a bit, head drooping down alittle.
"What.. am I going to do? Do I stay here? Should I look for him?" once again, her mind became like rapids, throwing ideas here and there, clashing with eachother... it was amazing she didn't get a headache from all of this.
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m r s - SUPER j u n i o r
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:30 pm
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He snorted, the woosh of air coming out as though it held all of his pent-up energy. His eyebrows were slanted almost perfectly verticle, framing eyes that held too much sorrow for one whose face normally expressed so much joy. With an irritated swish of his tail, her began to turn again, pivoting about and staring off into all directions...
Circles. Neverending circles. A fluid dance preformed around the hind legs, shifting the front to turn the head in a new direction and provide a new landscape to view, back legs rooted in the ground... turn, stare into the darkness. Turn, peer into shadowed trees that contained not the shadow he was searching for. Turn, look in the direction from whence he had come. Turn...
Mountain.
No. That was not right.
Shishio shook his head, seeking to clear the misinformation from his already-too-worried mind. Mountain was to the East. That was one of the landmarks that he had comitted to memory when he and Alenazsa had parted. (It pained her to even think her name, for with it came a flood of emotions that did not belong in a heart that contained love... no. He would not think about it.) Mountain to the East...
His indigo gaze left the neverending night, and turned towards the tree... He studied the bark that could be easily mistaken for every other tree in the area. He studied the gnarled branches, the new leaves clinging to sturdy limbs. He looked about half-ways up... there was no hole, no marking that he had remembered.
With a silent thanks sent in a though-bubble towards the mountains that could not hear even if he had shouted, he pivoted once more to his right and took off at a dead gallop. If this tree, this tree that he had thought was the one under which he would find the other halg to his heart, faced the mountains towards the North... then...
As he rounded the bend that was the dividing line between two paths, another tree came into view. Lush, vibrantly green leaves hung in graceful arks from gnarled branches that reached to the sky and were high enough to catch the low-hanging clouds as they passed... Solid trunk... a path that held the faintest traces of his own hoofprints that had been wiped away by the wind... and beneath it....
Alenazsa.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:40 pm
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The hoofbeats came before the sight.
At first, Alenazsa thought little about pounding hoofbeats,.. until they began to get louder, coming her way, instead of fading into the distance. Was there someone.. coming her way, or just to go past? She lowered her gaze, then turned it behind her. The pearly coat, and the dusk markings, and the matching mane.
Shishio...
She hadn't even noticed she'd said his name aloud, not the first time anyway, perhaps because it was barely a whisper. Finaly, she called out to him again, much louder,... enough so perhaps, if he were listening, he'd hear it over the hoofbeats. Another thing she hadn't noticed at first, was her own movement... her, beginning to run towards him,, and embracing him when near.
Alenazsa nuzzled him softly, nosing him hear and there. Her heart could've beat out of her chest, at this point, it was pounding so hard. Now, her legs hurt slightly, having strained them to run as fast as possible,.. as fast as those legs could go. "Shishio..." She closed her eyes, leaning her head against his neck, raising one hoof, and pressing her ankle softly to his leg, really for no reason but to.
Her heart seemed to fill back up, and again, she felt safe. When he had left her... she had felt so empty... missing something once again. So she did love him, even if she only knew him for such a short time. But love... was love. No matter how fast or slow it happened.
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m r s - SUPER j u n i o r
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 4:05 pm
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Shishio had felt as though he had found the treasure at the end of the rainbow, and it was even greater then he had ever imagined.
Of course, his 'rainbow' had been the path he had traveled, spurred on by his need to once more see that mare who had inspired feelings in him he hadn't know he'd been capable of feeling.
And his 'treasure' was not a collection of precious gems and fine metals in a worn wooden box, rather Alenazsa shining beneath the light of the stars.
He had come to a halt, chest still heaving with the strain of his long flight, as she had approached. It seemed almost surreal; her, rushing to meet him, such love shining from her eyes- and now so close to him, cuddling him much as one who had just found a childhood toy they had thought lost forever.
Both physical exhaustion and his thoughts were pushed aside to make room for one clear truth:
He had come back, as he had promised.
She had been waiting for him.
They were together again.
He lay his neck over hers, chin wrapped about so as to cradle her close. "How was your day?" His voice was soft and gentle, yet sturdy and strong, bearing a slightly husky tone that betrayed his relief even as his outwards calm denied it.
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:39 am
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m r s - SUPER j u n i o r
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:33 pm
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He had listened silently to her words, eyes downcast; he couldn't quite bring himself to look upon her, for if he did he knew that his heart would shine in his eyes. His gaze snaped up when instinct told him that she was looking at him once more, and he met her milky-white gaze with his own as her final words reached his perked ears.
His thoughts came back in a rush, each clamoring to be heard above the roar.
It had never occured to him that she, too, might be worried. That the same doubts that had crossed his mind would be present in her own. That she might doubt the source of their love, and the strength with which it stood in the other's heart.
To know that he had caused her distress, even that of only a mental level...
He lowered his head slightly so that he could peer into her eyes at an equal level. His brows were furrowed slightly. "Know that I would never seek to cause you pain. I would never wish you to be worried, nor any doubts cross your mind as to the likelihood of my fullfilling a promise. Any hurt you feel, be it mental or physical, if I were the cause..." he trailed off, a small smile flickering at the corners of his mouth. The flicker died. "I couldn't live with myself."
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:42 pm
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She could do nothing but smile,... at how much he cared for her, and vice versa. Just how much he loved her. If she were some sort of cat, she'd be purring up a mile.
"Even if you were to cause me pain, Shishio... I love you... and I would never hate you for it. If mental pain were to come, I'm sure it would in the end mean something great. If physical pain, I'm sure something, much greater, would come..."
Again, Alenazsa pressed her nose softly to his neck, before slipping down to her forehead, pressing it softly against him, closing her eyes. She tilted her head up in short jerks, after a few, finally hitting his jaw softly, nudging him softly, a smile resting on her lips.
She let her thoughts trail off, along with everything around them, clearing her mind of everything... all worries, all wonders, all anger,... everything, other than Shishio and her, together, at this very moment.
As far as Alenazsa was concerned, at the moment, life couldn't be better. |
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m r s - SUPER j u n i o r
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:07 pm
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