02-27-2018, 06:04 AM
Saedís is the archetype of youthful innocence – traipsing through the lands of Tephra like some silly girl; pearl-white and with flowers in her hair and laughter in her chest. Her body might have grown – but her heart is a girl’s heart. Adult was a title she carried in only the vaguest, more impractical manner imaginable. For is she not the same mare who only this morning had lain – splay-legged and laughing in the sand? Wasn´t she the mare who had initiated a game of tag with a random comrade, out of the sheer delight she found in running freely across the shore? Yes, she was the one who walked with the stars at her side, and she was the one who laughed too much, too often. She was not a mare, but a girl-child, dream-spun and sinless, and braided within her wind-combed mane was loyalty and truth.
Saedís could not tell you why she chose to approach the mare; dark-skinned like her volatile lover. But there ends the similarities; this mare is of sunshine and wildflowers. Saedís can sense a kinship to her – two carefree animals, with their manes in windswept tangles, sand on their hides and salt on their legs. Saedís was ever the compassionate and sweet creature and she wears the smile of a friend as she goes to greet this stranger; this mare who was so obviously child of these very shores, unlike Saedís. She did not care – or perhaps she simply did not notice – that her mane and tail were ensnarled with twigs and leaves, and mud now tarnished the pale flesh of her body.
”Hello” she chimes, bells on the wind ”I am Saedís”
In the tongue of her first home – Saedís literally means “Goddess of the sea”. But for creatures whose voices are the wind on a lonely night, or the river as it rushes past, names have more than just a meaning – they have emotion. Saedís most closely refers to distance. The word depicts the deities and their untouchable beauty, their near-intangibility. And she is so much the same as the sea that wove her very fiber that she could take on no other name. If Saedís was a title before, it is a name now, the very essence of her soul. Yes, she is Saedís. Of the sea. Born and raised by it.
@[Amorette]