06-07-2015, 09:04 PM
Plan? I don't need a plan!
He hadn't even really said goodbye when he left, but she isn't entirely sure that's the reason she's following him. It certainly isn't because of the way he tastes. She'd licked him once and it had been decidedly unpleasant. He'd tasted all kinds of weird and sour – which is strange, when you consider all the things that she considers yummy. She's learned to like most of the normal things, like grass and water and milk. But she's also learned to like a lot of abnormal things, like tree bark and dirt and even the occasional rock. She's licked them all and liked them, but she didn't like Zai.
Maybe it's boys. That's probably it, he probably tasted like boy.
But even if he tastes like boy and he's trying to leave, she's not done with him yet. And so she follows him, an (amazingly) silent little shadow as he leaves the confines of the Valley. She trails him, unseen, as he makes his way out from the mountains and travels the short distance from one kingdom to the other. She wrinkles her nose when he enters the thick undergrowth of the jungle; it smells weird here, it's not something she's used to. No doubt a more sensible or timid foal would turn back, but Val is neither sensible nor timid. She wants to know where he's going, and she's not going to let a little thing like a strange land that she's completely unfamiliar with get in her way.
But walking through this strange land isn't so easy. There's all kinds of things here that can trip a filly up, and she finds it very difficult to keep going, let alone match Zai's pace. All too soon, his body is swallowed up by the underbrush and she's entirely alone.
No doubt this should have caused her to panic and worry. She's lost in a strange kingdom, not even the slightest hint of how she got to where she is, let alone how to get out. She's beginning to suspect that here, there are strange things that go bump in the night and that some of these things might try to eat her. But she's not afraid; she's Valkerine, daughter of Covet and Librette. She'll kick their ass if they come for her.
No, she's not afraid. She's annoyed that she lost Zai.
And so, before too long, she reaches a clearing and decides to abandon her stealthy ways because, well, it's getting boring being out here all alone. And so, in the most incredibly tactless, brash voice possible, she bellows for him. "ZAI!!!!" She takes a deep breath and bellows again. "ZAIIIIIII!" Little does she know that she's echoing what he'd done to her mother months ago. She stands in the middle of the clearing and tenses herself like a horse about to shake its coat, closing her eyes and pouring every fiber of her being into bellowing. "ZAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!"
And then the chestnut yearling stands and waits.
VALKERINE!
tomboy daughter of librette & covet
@[Shahrizai]