"But the dream, the echo, slips from him as quickly as he had found it and as consciousness comes to him (a slap and not the gentle waves of oceanic tides), it dissolves entirely. His muscles relax as the cold claims him again, as the numbness sets in, and when his grey eyes open, there’s nothing but the faint after burn of a dream often trod and never remembered." --Brigade, written by Laura
The words ‘too bad’ are right there on the tip of her tongue when she’s told she missed, but she’s distracted. This isn’t some boring old horse who has just come over to see what she’s doing. Of all the things that Anuya finds distracting about his appearance, it’s the lack of ears that makes her brain stall out. She had seen plenty of “strange” creatures, blendings of horse and whatever other animal you could think of. The reptilian features do not bother her (they’re actually pretty cool).
Her long ears twitch, and she tries to imagine what she’d look like without them. And she’d miss so many good sounds!
All her previous experience learning that she does not need to raise her voice to speak to the inhabitants of Beqanna absolutely empties right out of her mind in those few moments between when he asks his question and when she replies.
So when she speaks, her voice is projected - just loud enough to be obnoxious. “I’m tossing rocks of course!! As requested by the fairies on the mountain.” She gestures vaguely back in the direction of where the mountain lies (though she has already forgotten and she gets this wrong, instead gesturing west to the sea and tropical lands). “It’s a very -” But her tongue sticks on the word ‘important’ because that is absolutely a lie. She frowns against the feeling and as she lowers her head to poke at a few pebbles to determine their worth, she continues - her volume rising with each word after she forgets to start off loud. “It’s for a quest. I'm trying to see how many I need to throw until they come down and tell me to stop.” Her turquoise eyes look back in that same (wrong) direction she had motioned in, as if expecting some one to come down and smite her.
When nothing happens, she turns back to the strange and shouts "Wanna try it?"
oh, I see stars rushing through my mind, colours have no time to fade
oh, I found out there's another side where the sea and sky collide
