a pirate and a lass [aerwela]

a pirate and a lass [aerwela]

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01-12-2013, 02:46 PM

C O R M A C ;; I am the barbarian.

He stands on the bitterly cool shore, with a mind-numbing wind that frolicks around, pulling his mane, teasing and twisting his tail into knots. The stallion, the pirate king as he silently refers himself to, is not an ugly man. Rather than dampening his rugged looks, the scars littering his coat make him more attractive, more wild, more of the rougish barbarian he likes to imagine himself as. What is he really? Well, he is a cocky bastard, but he is also kind and charming enough when he needs to be.

Slowly does the sun rise, agonizingly snail-like, clambering heavily out over the ocean, where it remains, a glistening gold coin quite reminiscent of money. Maybe as a young, gangly-legged colt he would have not been reminded so strongly of the glittering riches, or if he had not bonded to pirate companion Abelard. But he was no longer a knobby-kneed colt and he had bonded with Abelard, and so this faint dragon-like, or magpie-like, greed stirred in him.

Did the stallion miss Abelard? Yes, yes he did, quite a bit, especially as he stared out forlornly to the wintry seas. Was there a ship out there, of salted wood and rotted timber, sails fluttering in the wind? Was Casey, Abelard's mate (wife, although Cormac did not know the word), swinging a cutlass and wielding a knife, was she fluttering black eyelashes and dancing a jig, or was she, perhaps, stone cold in the ground as well? Like Abelard. Like that fateful night when the cobblestone streets ran bloody red.

It was needless to say the raid on the town had not gone well. The horses he had seen had been caught- brother Janiver and sister Kiseng, Kiseng still with coins in her mane and eyes still proud, with a proud step despite the horrors she had witnessed.

All of a sudden, Cormac whipped around, backing to the edge of the ocean, where his hocks remained embedded in the wet sand, digging in ever deeper as he reared, and snarled-

"Come and fight me if you dare!"

Setting: Endless Blue, Frostfall

Notes: Cormac teaching, two posts each, one closing defense for Aerwela.