but nevermind [hieroglyph discovery]

[OPEN] but nevermind [hieroglyph discovery]

Agnodice Posts: 70

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Mare :: Equine :: 14.2hh :: 8

Herophilos :: Plain Black Dragon :: Toxic Breath prissy

10-26-2015, 08:14 PM

Herbs. Gather the herbs. Heal the sick, mend the broken. She slipped through Helovia with this in mind under the cover of night and grace of moon. She wasn't sure where she was going, perhaps she just wanted to get acquainted with her new home. Her irregular colored hooves bring her south, through wood and creek, to a fiery pit. The alabaster and onyx mare circles the fire, making a mental note to ask someone about the science of this ever burning fire. It didn't seem to be a threat, so she moved on from it.

Agnodice was prepared to leave the area entirely, but a gleaming caught her turquoise gaze. She turned to find a hole in the ground, very much large enough for a horse to fit through. Curious and uninterested in anything else around her, the mare slipped into the hole, finding it to be quite a large cave, in fact. She weaved through it's corridors, going from room to room and being careful not to get lost.

She paused to admire a glowing flora, wondering if it had any use in the medical field. She was about to pick some before she heard a few callings from deeper within the cave. She flicked a curvaceous ear to the sounds, the rest of her body soon following. The dainty mare was interested, wondering who, or what was here. It was a strange feeling to know that she was not alone down here, but she knew not who she was with.

The mare slipped quietly into the room in which she had heard a few muffled noises from. The room itself was lit by glowing flora and magma, it was quite an astonishing sight to the mare. Her lips fell apart, mystified by the wonders of the land she had found herself in. Maybe she would stay in this Helovia for a while longer.

Her attention shifted to a couple of mares who shared the space with her now. One was dark as night, the other pale as snow, though her coat had a bit of ebony splashed upon it. The paler girl seemed more uncertain of being here, though the onyx one seemed purposeful in her endeavors. Agnodice chose that one to approach first.

She sulked out of the shadows, walking to the ebony mare's side to see what she was looking at. Agnodice was dwarfed by the mare, though she took no note of it. She had gotten used to being shorter than everyone else. Her brow furrowed as she examined what the mare had been looking at. There were etchings in the wall. She got closer to them, brow lifting upon her examination.

"Hieroglyphs!" She softly exclaimed, stepping back from the mare's side and looking to her expectantly. She assumed the mare knew something of them, or else she wouldn't be here examining them so closely. Her gaze moved to the rest of the wall, certain that more hieroglyphics were here. She recognized their presence from her years studying in a land that used the glyphs. Though, that was a long time ago, and her knowledge of it was filled with cobwebs.

"How long have you been reading them?" Agnodice spoke, head still upturned, though her turquoise gaze had fallen to the mare. She hadn't asked for her name - she didn't care much, really. She was more concerned by the writing on the wall.

[ The real Agnodice studied medicine in Alexandria. All I did with my Agnodice's history is use her real history and make it fit in an equine situation. Therefore I assumed she'd know something of hieroglyphs from living and studying in the equivalent of an Egyptian civilization in Loorien. If this isn't okay please let me know and I'll change the post!! @Chernobyl ]