04-09-2017, 07:00 PM
Ivar listens, impressively still for a young child. Eiria gives the young foal an impressive wealth of information. It's unlikely that he'll remember all of it, but the major details stick - the purpose of diplomacy, a few of the tasks, and the importance of it. His brown eyes are wide, and he soaks up the knowledge as well as he can before he is setting out after the bird.
The colt can hear her behind him, but the bird eludes them both easily. They always do, of course, but it doesn't occur to him that the hunt is futile. There is something in him that drives him to chase and follow, something that urges him to capture. He's never succeeded, but he is young enough that ultimate frustration is little more than few sighs.
"I'd like to meet Zhenga," he tells her at the end of her story. Ivar rather likes being referred to as spirited (it sounds like a nicer way to phrase the term exhausting that his mother most often uses. And he would like to meet more horses closer to his own age. Something else she'd mentioned had caught his attention, and his unquenchable curiosity makes him ask: "Where are the Falls?" He's heard mother refer to it a few times, mostly in stories of the past, but she hadn't ever mentioned how to get there, and he's always wanted to see waterfalls.
The colt can hear her behind him, but the bird eludes them both easily. They always do, of course, but it doesn't occur to him that the hunt is futile. There is something in him that drives him to chase and follow, something that urges him to capture. He's never succeeded, but he is young enough that ultimate frustration is little more than few sighs.
"I'd like to meet Zhenga," he tells her at the end of her story. Ivar rather likes being referred to as spirited (it sounds like a nicer way to phrase the term exhausting that his mother most often uses. And he would like to meet more horses closer to his own age. Something else she'd mentioned had caught his attention, and his unquenchable curiosity makes him ask: "Where are the Falls?" He's heard mother refer to it a few times, mostly in stories of the past, but she hadn't ever mentioned how to get there, and he's always wanted to see waterfalls.