chase the sky into the ocean

[aletta]

When the dawn wakes, so does Aletta.


She has never wasted much time lingering when a day starts. An old habit of hers, brought upon by a lifetime of patrolling and raising small children and then grandchildren. An even older one started from a beginning of wandering, of following the sun as soon as it rose. 

It hadn’t been an easy choice to resume this lifestyle. The wanderer had long left her soul. Aletta had let her go the day that she had decided to let herself love. She has no doubt that her soul went east and west, north and south while her heart stayed within the ancient valley. (So many happy memories there - why would she ever have gone anywhere else?) 

The gray mare is trying very hard to reacquaint herself with the soul that traveled and the heart that stayed. Rising early, leaving a still-sleeping Scorch, is something that helps. 

Sunlight comes cascading through the treetops. The green that adorns them is bright and vibrant, revealing that Beqanna is in the heart of spring. These early mornings are quiet (apart from the idyll chatter of birdsong) and the air blows tepid, without the coming humidity of summer. 

The silver mare wanders down a trail that is well-traveled - many scents linger and she assumes that is only the dawn that keeps travelers away. Their heads are still clouded with dreams. Aletta doesn’t mind. The pale woman walks ahead, enjoying the fact that she is very much awake while the world still sleeps.


@[Elle Belle] its recycled but a starter for you! <3

[Isola]

It was an early morning to be wandering a land so fresh and new. Virginal dew clung to the waxy leaves of low brush that sporadically grew between the cracks of crumbling rock. The donkey mare, small and surefooted, pursues her entrance into Beqanna with a stubbornness. An orange eye slit and scoured the edge of the gurgling river as the early sun rays glinted and gleamed over the vibrating surface. Isola rolls the very same eyes as she sighs heavily at the thought of crossing that same water to get to the other side.

She is not tall. At an astounding 13.2 hands, she could very well drown somewhere in the deep dark parts of the fast moving water so she must make her way up the shore edge for something less...death-y. One small, round hoof sinks into the pebbled choked shore. The river was unlike the smooth sands of her previous home (she feels a small pang of regret for leaving but it is fleeting). Isola watches how the river begins to narrow so she continues her patter up the water’s edge.

A scent reaches the donkey mare soon after she finds a pleasant, less violent, place to cross the river except it’s behind her. A woman’s scent is blowing on the downwind to the dun woman. A furrow creases her brow slightly as she feels torn between continuing her journey and abandoning it to head up the small path. ”Well...”, the roll of her shoulders drift to a shrug as she turns to head up the small trail with long ears alert and orange eyes watching.

An image of silver soon forms as Isola finds the source of the scent. A mare, pretty and tall, stands at peace with sunlight washing her dark hair. Isola tilts her head slightly as she wonders what the leggy mare was thinking of. ”Hello there.” Its a start. Isola disrupts the birdsong and delicate morning atmosphere with the bray of her unrefined voice. Poise and grace were never qualities she possessed.

@[Star]