06-01-2017, 05:24 PM
He likes the feeling of watching the pretty girl, unseen. It’s a feeling like keeping a secret, exciting and empowering. She approaches the river and he wonders what it would like to have the gift of invisibility – exciting he was sure, but he wouldn’t trade his fire for anything.
Her toes are in the water when she halts. Her gaze is pulled down, and she stands seemingly mesmerized by the tranquil waters she finds there. “Oh,” she says, like a little bird. His peculiar eyes meet hers - round and glimmering with unspent tears. He lowers his neck and sinks below the surface, bubbling. He almost laughs at the awkwardness of the moment, not bothering to hide his amusement where only the fish could see him. Maugrim comes to mind and Levi wonders what the colt who could control water would do in this situation. Probably pull her in and swim away. Probably what he should do. But Levi was curious, time would tell if that was a flaw or a virtue.
Levi smooths his features, again putting on the face of the stoic before surfacing slightly downstream. He takes a step towards the shore, river water streaming down his exposed neck and face. His inky black eye watches her without emotion. He notes the similarity of their coats, even if the colors are night and day the patterns matched.
He should probably say something, but nothing comes to mind and he doesn’t bother to hunt for the perfect witty words. Her dainty face is marked with the leavings of fallen tears, on her check a droplet of blood perches, set like a ruby against the blue of her skin. The red of that ruby keeps him there, observing her. It isn’t in his nature to comfort; the thought doesn’t even cross his mind. Compassion was not one of the gift he had been given at birth. Not to say he was wicked like some others, but he was selfish, powerful and beautiful in his own dark way. Such a combination would make most young stallions lean towards egotistical.
But he did not think so much of himself that he would prefer to hear his own voice over another's. When he let others speak first her tended to learn more, let her control the flow, he had all the time in the world.
Levi
so scream you, out from behind the bitter ache.