07-21-2020, 05:48 PM
She is growing restless. Nursing an ache to explore, a need to feel rage or lust or something forbidden. She is old enough to be considered grown, but young enough to need to prove it to herself, and every day she hates Tephra a little more.
Nothing exciting would ever happen there.
So, she leaves. With a quick whisper to a half-asleep twin, she leaves. Tracing the borders of the kingdoms and territories she weaves across the continent. Her enhanced vision allows her to keep a distance from any strangers she would have crossed paths with, and the dragon-mare never ventures too far inside any of them to be considered trespassing. No goal or destination drives her, except for maybe a loosely-formed idea to see the eastern coastline. It was as far away from home as she could get. She had never imagined thinking of what was beyond that.
Days pass.
The Mountain comes into view one dawn, but after a morning of walking, she can't think of anything to ask for. A northern trail presents itself, and she follows it into what she assumes is no longer Loess. The trail rises, her hooves clicking on stones, and when she glimpses the vast, blue eye of the lake, she knows she found Hyaline. Piecemeal stories of old family ties surface in her mind. Some portions of her family ruled or lived or conquered this place once. She is wishing she could remember which side it was when the sounds of destruction cause her heart to jump into her throat.
There is only the beat of a heart between the moment she hears the first splitting tree-trunk and the moment the world erupts. But Locheed finds herself in the tick of it. Trees fall like stacked sea-shells, and the brown mare dives over and under the rubble, until one leap brings her face-to-face with a shadow-creature. Ears pinned, she bares her sharpened teeth, but she does not wait to see if the threat is taken seriously. Peeling her lips back further, her mouth opens wide and a blast of blue light roars out towards it like dragon-flame.
@[atrox] she really wanted to reply. please tell me if this isn't how the souls work and i can change anything!
Nothing exciting would ever happen there.
So, she leaves. With a quick whisper to a half-asleep twin, she leaves. Tracing the borders of the kingdoms and territories she weaves across the continent. Her enhanced vision allows her to keep a distance from any strangers she would have crossed paths with, and the dragon-mare never ventures too far inside any of them to be considered trespassing. No goal or destination drives her, except for maybe a loosely-formed idea to see the eastern coastline. It was as far away from home as she could get. She had never imagined thinking of what was beyond that.
Days pass.
The Mountain comes into view one dawn, but after a morning of walking, she can't think of anything to ask for. A northern trail presents itself, and she follows it into what she assumes is no longer Loess. The trail rises, her hooves clicking on stones, and when she glimpses the vast, blue eye of the lake, she knows she found Hyaline. Piecemeal stories of old family ties surface in her mind. Some portions of her family ruled or lived or conquered this place once. She is wishing she could remember which side it was when the sounds of destruction cause her heart to jump into her throat.
There is only the beat of a heart between the moment she hears the first splitting tree-trunk and the moment the world erupts. But Locheed finds herself in the tick of it. Trees fall like stacked sea-shells, and the brown mare dives over and under the rubble, until one leap brings her face-to-face with a shadow-creature. Ears pinned, she bares her sharpened teeth, but she does not wait to see if the threat is taken seriously. Peeling her lips back further, her mouth opens wide and a blast of blue light roars out towards it like dragon-flame.
@[atrox] she really wanted to reply. please tell me if this isn't how the souls work and i can change anything!
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