Dearest Romani, Xanthos, Azel and Kasai
Today must've been one of the strangest days I've ever seen. Or rather, had the most bizarre experience in it. It was only a small period of time after I awakened to this world from your womb, Mother; my vocabulary limited, at best, and at worst, nothing at all. I knew my colors, and my trees, and really, that was all. I could say 'brown' or 'blue' or 'ocean blue', 'aspen' or 'oak' or 'pine', and, of course, 'mom' and 'dad' and 'hi', and my name- which I pronouced Jas, founding the 'eerie' hard- but nothing else. Nothing productive, which my young mind found both limiting and enlightening.
I had wandered away, testing my new foal-legs, and finding, with surprise, I could go much faster than I had anticipated. Galloping, frolicking, and leaping like all the world a frog, I went careening through the forest, surprisingly enough not hitting the tree here or there- but whatever the case, I enjoyed myself. All too quickly for my liking, I was suddenly quite separated from you, dear mother, and dear father; so I stood lost upon my long legs, my legs that suddenly felt much too long standing still. It was queer, how I suddenly found myself missing you so much, even though I understood little of you but warmth and the scent of milk. Father I associated with safety, and similarity, with his tall horn. One day I wanted to ask him why we had a horn on our brows. But maybe that would be an intrusive question.
As it was, I was lost and alone in the forest that suddenly seemed terrifying, so I went hunting for a smell, pushing through the trees quicker and quicker, hurtling onwards until I finally heard horses. I had nothing in my small vocabulary to say 'powerful', so instead I substituted. "Brown-black-gold-red-yellow," I say in a solemn rush, finding myself beside a mare tall and black and with strange gold markings. My clear blue eyes look pleadingly up at her, and I sniff softly. I want to ask her where mother was. "Mum? Gold-white? No... hurn." I hadn't raised my voice quite at all, but suddenly I seem to sense the importance of this moment for the three others in the clearing. I fall silent immediately, halfway through "asp-". A shiver runs up my golden red coat, and I press a little closer to the black mare, the mare who reminded me faintly of Xanthos. Maybe it was the aura of the two of them- wraiths, ghosts, but not dark ones. "Wha?" I murmur, tilting my head and bumping my blunt, still slightly soft horn against one of her dark legs.
I watch quietly in a slight fervored panic, quivering alongst my body, yet fearing to interrupt the three giants in the clearing.
Love,
Jasiri
[Like Mirage, Jasiri's just going to be watching. She doesn't really understand what's going on ^^]
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