09-25-2017, 11:31 AM
Zhenga just rolled her eyes again when Ivar mocked how he'd now grown to be bigger than the roan filly. However, she couldn't stay mad at her friend, and smiled good-naturedly again at him as he directed her gaze toward the way the two of them needed to go to see the sunrise before challenging her to a race. Watching as he bolted off, excitement coursed through the filly's veins as she was quick to take off after her friend this time, her mane and tail whipping behind her like angry waves of ocean water.
The filly's muscled legs propelled her over the ground with surprising ease; she wasn't used to this flattened ground, more used to the rocky well-worn trails of Sylva's forest. Despite her unease with this unfamiliar ground, she decided to take advantage of it, using the flattened ground to increase her speed so that she was soon running alongside her foal hood friend.
While she could have challenged him back and tried to run faster than him for the race, Zhenga decided to run alongside him for the trip, more content in doing so. The trail Ivar was leading her on seemed easy enough to follow, and Zhenga more than likely could've made it up the hill on her own, but she didn't trust her sense of direction in new places. Not until she had a better lay of the land.
And so the two of them galloped for quite some time, Zhenga more than once letting Ivar take the lead so that she wouldn't accidentally slip and fall down the hill they were going up. The sky was just beginning to turn a beautiful shade of light orange, a signal that the sunrise was almost upon them.
Spotting the top of the hill, Zhenga started slowing her pace until she got down to a walk. She edged the rest of the way up the hill, coming to a halt at the top and looking out over the expanse of land that stretched below. Though it was a bit hard to see since the sun hadn't fully risen yet, Zhenga stared at the horizon, already seeing where the heavenly body was trying to appear. A few seconds of silence passed before the sun finally broke over the horizon, casting a golden ray of light over the land beneath Zhenga's vantage point from the cliff.
As the filly watched, her eyes widened, glistening over with wonder and amazement as she witnessed a sight like this. She'd seen sunrises before, but from a vantage point like this, atop a cliff and looking down, there was a whole other magical sense about it. She couldn't even get her brain to process more than the two words she said next to Ivar.
"It's... beautiful..." she managed, a wide smile creeping onto her face as she continued watching the horizon.
The filly's muscled legs propelled her over the ground with surprising ease; she wasn't used to this flattened ground, more used to the rocky well-worn trails of Sylva's forest. Despite her unease with this unfamiliar ground, she decided to take advantage of it, using the flattened ground to increase her speed so that she was soon running alongside her foal hood friend.
While she could have challenged him back and tried to run faster than him for the race, Zhenga decided to run alongside him for the trip, more content in doing so. The trail Ivar was leading her on seemed easy enough to follow, and Zhenga more than likely could've made it up the hill on her own, but she didn't trust her sense of direction in new places. Not until she had a better lay of the land.
And so the two of them galloped for quite some time, Zhenga more than once letting Ivar take the lead so that she wouldn't accidentally slip and fall down the hill they were going up. The sky was just beginning to turn a beautiful shade of light orange, a signal that the sunrise was almost upon them.
Spotting the top of the hill, Zhenga started slowing her pace until she got down to a walk. She edged the rest of the way up the hill, coming to a halt at the top and looking out over the expanse of land that stretched below. Though it was a bit hard to see since the sun hadn't fully risen yet, Zhenga stared at the horizon, already seeing where the heavenly body was trying to appear. A few seconds of silence passed before the sun finally broke over the horizon, casting a golden ray of light over the land beneath Zhenga's vantage point from the cliff.
As the filly watched, her eyes widened, glistening over with wonder and amazement as she witnessed a sight like this. She'd seen sunrises before, but from a vantage point like this, atop a cliff and looking down, there was a whole other magical sense about it. She couldn't even get her brain to process more than the two words she said next to Ivar.
"It's... beautiful..." she managed, a wide smile creeping onto her face as she continued watching the horizon.