08-23-2017, 12:58 PM
Kosh
What is the world really like outside of the Valley?
She had ventured out of the valley only once before but never this far, and at the time her companion Vai nearly got herself killed. They did not suspect the tribes outside of their own homeland to be hostile towards them as they were. Terrible things happened, they were detained for days (weeks? it was hard to remember when the nightmares still persisted) and when it was over, Kosh went home with Vai practically thrown over her shoulders.
Kosh could not help but wonder if leaving home was a good idea or a bad one, especially since she could not take with her the two things she cherished the most. She missed her best friend and pet cat, but the Valley would not let her take them with her this time. Last time it had been a disaster and Beqanna, she assumed, would probably be unkind to her companions like the Black Plains had been.
After that, they stayed in the valley for a long time before the itch to try again kept Kosh awake at night. She still felt regret for ever inviting Vai out into the wilderness but she could not blame herself for the mistake - they were both ignorant just as the Black Plains tribes had been. At the end of the day, horses were horses, and she supposed that-that reason alone was why the Plains decided to let them go free. But the price they had to pay had been great, and Vai's life (as well as Kosh's) would be changed permanently. Vai's for the worst and Kosh's...for the better.
She knew nothing of where she was going but she did not care for her own well being, just others. She wouldn't be able to live with herself if anything terrible happened to Vai again - the poor girl already had scars to live with for the rest of her life. That, and now a child she never wanted to care for. The valley horses wanted to keep Vai safe, Ante safe, but because Kosh's desire to learn more about the outside world was stronger in her than any other horse in the herd. The valley horses then decided together to let Kosh learn everything they did not know - she would be allowed to leave so long as she would return with information about the world they hid from.
Part of her wasn't sure she would ever return now because she wasn't sure she even knew the way home anymore. Never a matter of importance for her, not anymore, she had almost forgotten what valley-life was like after a wild year-long pursuit of knowledge. Her ambition had driven her far from her childhood home to here, Beqanna, a place that she could not remember happening upon. She could not identify the changes she felt upon entering the wild woods that bordered the field but she could feel it from within. Once the open field came into view - and the several horses it was feeding (housing?) she felt a twinge of anxiety. She would not let the trauma of the past stop her now, she knew this was not the Black Plains and she knew that she had been through rougher areas and still managed to escape unscathed.
Perhaps Beqanna had been a destiny all along? Perhaps she was meant to be free. The blue roan stood alone by the trees to study the grazing groups and the chatting circles, none of which appeared to be aware of her standing in the shadows.
This is the world, Kosh said to herself, her pale gray eyes admiring all the differences between her and the others - horses were horses - but here they came from all different walks of life. She suddenly found herself to be very shy in the company of strangers but her feet drove her forward towards an unsuspecting horse, one that stood alone as well. The outsiders back home did not speak her language but how would she ever know unless she found out for herself.
"Hello. I am Kosh." She'd start off small and see where it takes her.
ooc: This is a bad post, I promise it gets better (it has been a year or more since I've written)