03-18-2018, 10:01 PM
No traits? Scorch had been born that way, and she would gladly return to such a state.
Without hesitation, she begins the obstacle course, coming first to the magma pools. The firey waters lick at her hooves and she is reminded of when she had been burnt alive - this time however, she escapes unscathed.
Second comes a rope bridge, an idea that barely exists to her being a horse and all, but she takes it in stride, forcing her eyes to focus on the bridge itself and not the chasm below. Safely, she crosses.
She feels the cool water of the lake before she registers exactly what this obstacle is, and she's halfway across when the shivers start in, as the icey water pierces her bare hide. But the movement keeps her warm, and she gets across.
The next part seems almost laughable, like a show poney event, but Scorch takes it in stride - literally - and leaps over the log-obstacles, snatching a flower in her mouth as she passed and chewing on it vigorously.
When the cave comes, she wishes she could have her magic, because it is dark and she cannot see; but she lowers her head and trots carefully through, nose probing for the walls, and eventually, making it out the other side with only a few bleeding cuts on her fragile skin.
At the top of the cliff, she searches for the last obstacle, confused by the strange amount of gold fluff lying at her hooves. But when at last she takes one in her mouth, all fades to black, and with relief, she realizes: I have finished.
word count: 271
answer: hippalectryon
Without hesitation, she begins the obstacle course, coming first to the magma pools. The firey waters lick at her hooves and she is reminded of when she had been burnt alive - this time however, she escapes unscathed.
Second comes a rope bridge, an idea that barely exists to her being a horse and all, but she takes it in stride, forcing her eyes to focus on the bridge itself and not the chasm below. Safely, she crosses.
She feels the cool water of the lake before she registers exactly what this obstacle is, and she's halfway across when the shivers start in, as the icey water pierces her bare hide. But the movement keeps her warm, and she gets across.
The next part seems almost laughable, like a show poney event, but Scorch takes it in stride - literally - and leaps over the log-obstacles, snatching a flower in her mouth as she passed and chewing on it vigorously.
When the cave comes, she wishes she could have her magic, because it is dark and she cannot see; but she lowers her head and trots carefully through, nose probing for the walls, and eventually, making it out the other side with only a few bleeding cuts on her fragile skin.
At the top of the cliff, she searches for the last obstacle, confused by the strange amount of gold fluff lying at her hooves. But when at last she takes one in her mouth, all fades to black, and with relief, she realizes: I have finished.
word count: 271
answer: hippalectryon
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