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[OPEN] Beware the Coming Winter Wind

Ashamin the Clovenheart Posts: 426
Outcast atk: 8 | def: 11.5 | dam: 5.5
Stallion :: Unicorn :: 15.2 HH :: 5 [Frostfall] HP: 79 | Buff: NUMB
Lochan :: Plain Cerndyr :: Dark Mist & Rakt :: Common Cerndyr :: Starpast Jen
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Ashamin was caught by surprise.

He hadn't expected the faint deer tracks at his back to continue, especially not in the manner of following. And further still, the young buck had not expected any sort of voice to come from the fine morning mist that had coated the icy basin plain.

Ashamin's immediate response was to freeze where he stood. His advances halted, his black eyes brimmed with fear. It was foolish to be afraid in his own herdland he thought, but afraid he was nonetheless. It was simply the surprise of it all: the not knowing.

Oh what was life but a tilt back and forth between knowledge and a lack of it? Had there been time for any thought other than panic, Ashamin might have stopped his flurry of thoughts to consider the question. But the voice, tinged with a playing tone that was nonetheless intimidating, banished all rational thought from Ashamin's head.

And still, the polite part of him could not ignore the call of the words. He was being rude, by not acknowledging the other, at least he was now that he knew they were there. Then again, the disembodied voice at his back wasn't being the most polite, either. There were better ways to introduce oneself, and at the end of the day, Ashamin's mother had died moments after he had been born. She never had had a chance to teach him manners.

Just before Ashamin turned, he looked down at his own hooves. Cleft, deer hooves. So that must have been the sound, he thought. In that half second before his whole body twisted back, he thought himself a fool of the greatest sort.

But then again, perhaps he wasn't going batty. When he turned, there stood a deer, yes (and an odd one at that) but a unicorn as well. Ashamin squinted, almost blinded by the light off of the golden one's hide, and lowered his head in automatic submission.

"My apologies, sir..." Ashamin said, his voice softer than it should have been, given the distance between them, but hopefully loud enough to decipher. "I didn't know you were there," he added, assuring the other, elder stallion before him. It was a way to excuse himself, but just as much an admission of his failure of perception. How had he not heard a beast as grand as this at his back? Was there magic involved, the same magic Lena had spoken of? It was difficult to believe, but less implausible than the idea that this creature had gone entirely undetected. Ashamin lashed his tail nervously, letting it thump against the earth and swirl in the traces of frost.

Had he been a little more brave, perhaps he could have returned the stallion's jest with a snide comment of his own--put this stranger in his place regarding Ashamin's own family matters. But there was a time and a place for everything, and this was not such a time.

Not that Ashamin would have had the courage, even if it were.


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Messages In This Thread
Beware the Coming Winter Wind - by Thranduil - 05-21-2015, 08:18 AM
RE: Beware the Coming Winter Wind - by Ashamin - 05-21-2015, 11:49 AM
RE: Beware the Coming Winter Wind - by Thranduil - 05-30-2015, 10:40 PM
RE: Beware the Coming Winter Wind - by Ashamin - 05-30-2015, 11:29 PM
RE: Beware the Coming Winter Wind - by Thranduil - 05-31-2015, 09:16 PM
RE: Beware the Coming Winter Wind - by Ashamin - 06-10-2015, 01:26 PM
RE: Beware the Coming Winter Wind - by Thranduil - 06-15-2015, 12:48 AM
RE: Beware the Coming Winter Wind - by Ashamin - 06-20-2015, 03:30 PM
RE: Beware the Coming Winter Wind - by Thranduil - 06-22-2015, 12:37 PM
RE: Beware the Coming Winter Wind - by Ashamin - 06-30-2015, 12:06 PM
RE: Beware the Coming Winter Wind - by Blu - 08-09-2015, 01:44 PM

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