03-07-2018, 03:03 PM
The sun grows hotter as the day wears on, and Kuma feels a thick layer of perspiration cover her skin. The task the goddess gives her is a difficult one - face the serpent, and get an apple from the tree.
A few horses before her charge forward. She lets out a mumbled curse to herself for not going sooner, before she is pulling herself towards the tree. The snake is huge (much bigger than she’d ever seen before), with bold red stripes upon its black scales. It hisses, fangs threatening to burst through her skin and inject its poison into her veins.
Her heart beats fast beneath her sternum. Her mind tells her to run, but she thinks better of it. The serpent strikes, long neck lashing out at her. She moves quickly to the side, careful not to stumble and be bitten. She looks up to two yellow eyes following her, and just behind them she finds a low-hanging apple.
She needed to be quicker.
With a great leap, she pulls herself from the ground, grasping the Apple between her teeth. She lands safely on the ground just as the serpent lunges at her, and with a great sigh of relief, allows herself to canter back to the goddess, and drop the fruit at her feet.
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Words: 219
The Answer: Knights rose heavy warhorses called “destriers.” Mounted Calvary men rode smaller horses called “Coursers” or “Rounceys.” The generic, interchangeable term for the warhorses above was “charger.”
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A few horses before her charge forward. She lets out a mumbled curse to herself for not going sooner, before she is pulling herself towards the tree. The snake is huge (much bigger than she’d ever seen before), with bold red stripes upon its black scales. It hisses, fangs threatening to burst through her skin and inject its poison into her veins.
Her heart beats fast beneath her sternum. Her mind tells her to run, but she thinks better of it. The serpent strikes, long neck lashing out at her. She moves quickly to the side, careful not to stumble and be bitten. She looks up to two yellow eyes following her, and just behind them she finds a low-hanging apple.
She needed to be quicker.
With a great leap, she pulls herself from the ground, grasping the Apple between her teeth. She lands safely on the ground just as the serpent lunges at her, and with a great sigh of relief, allows herself to canter back to the goddess, and drop the fruit at her feet.
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Words: 219
The Answer: Knights rose heavy warhorses called “destriers.” Mounted Calvary men rode smaller horses called “Coursers” or “Rounceys.” The generic, interchangeable term for the warhorses above was “charger.”
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