12-07-2020, 10:41 PM
Isra reveled in her homecoming.
She had recently returned from journeying outside of Beqanna with her father and she hadn’t set foot in her homeland in a long while. Her father was often struck with wanderlust and she carried his same ever continuous thirst for knowledge of the world around her. Michaelis had always taken his children beneath his wing and indulged their barrage of questions of how and why. She hadn’t been a sheltered child by any means for Michaelis didn’t shield her from the darker sides to life, but she had been a happy child nonetheless.
The sunlight warmed her back while a cooling breeze tangled her dark mane across her neck. Considering her birth came about from an odd mixture of a spark of lingering magic and her father’s shadow tendrils, the blue roan girl always took the opportunity to enjoy the sunlight when she could. She continued to have a fascination with the brilliant rays of sunlight that had enthralled her from the very beginning. Her father rarely ventured out in the open during sunny days like these for his eyes were much too sensitive and it pained him greatly. So, she had left him to settle within the darkness that the forest provided (the shadows in their welcoming of Michaelis did not neglect to also trail exuberantly across her skin for they recognized one of their own kind), and she took the rare opportunity to follow along the river that trailed through the heart of this land.
As she came around a bend of the river and out from amongst the tall reeds that lined its banks, she thought she had heard something just ahead. Eager to investigate, she continued forwards and mismatched eyes of yellow and red soon were rewarded with the sight of a stallion just ahead.
A warm smile graces her face and she softly calls out a greeting to the stranger, “Hello!”
As she finally drew to a halt before him, she noticed he had horns and seemed to resemble a goat. She vaguely remembered her father speaking of a goat-horse before and she wondered if this stranger was perhaps related. She could only recall that the other’s name had begun with the letter “P.”
“I’m Isra”
@[Yanhua]