.svg/2000px-Google_Chrome_icon_(2011).svg.png){kind=icon}
08-29-2012, 02:58 AM
For once, there was no evidence of the boisterous, irrepresible filly that was so commonplace for her. Instead, Kimber stood close beside Ricochet, muzzle tilted toward his shoulder while her blue eyes peered with wide-eyed anxiety at Paladin. It wasn't so much the fact that he was a unicorn that had her worked up, but the fact that he'd knocked the balance of the Foothills askew, the very balance that had made her life so simple and easy. And she wasn't entirely sure what to make of it.
Her water-ferrets were sitting on her back this time, their bodies more corporeal than they had been in the Threshold. The greater supply of water here provided them that, and they were somewhere between liquid and vapor. One scampered up her neck to sit between her ears, leaving damp footsteps, while the other huddled in the curve of her back.
Her ears twitched as she listened, absorbing information and trying to make sense of things. The leaders had changed entirely, her mother was now General. There was a leadership role for the non-existant pegasi population. She wondered at this, even as Ricochet stepped forward to volunteer for a warrior position before stepping back between herself and Smoke.
Her thoughts were interrupted by an entirely unfamiliar voice, and her gaze flickered briefly toward the source. Only to come back again with startled surprise at the sight of an enormous mare with a willow tree growing on her back. Now she'd seen it all! Or at least assumed so. But her curiosity could only be held for so long, before she looked back to Paladin.
Gathering her courage, Kimber stepped from the shadow of Ricochet's side. "Excuse me, Paladin. But why are you leaving open a spot for a pegasus when they all choose to live in the Throat or with Mirage, except for Xenos? And we didn't have any unicorns until Archibald brought his family here, and then you." Her voice gained strength as she kept going. "We had equine leaders because none of the unicorns expressed interest until you, and now you've changed everything."
Her water-ferrets were sitting on her back this time, their bodies more corporeal than they had been in the Threshold. The greater supply of water here provided them that, and they were somewhere between liquid and vapor. One scampered up her neck to sit between her ears, leaving damp footsteps, while the other huddled in the curve of her back.
Her ears twitched as she listened, absorbing information and trying to make sense of things. The leaders had changed entirely, her mother was now General. There was a leadership role for the non-existant pegasi population. She wondered at this, even as Ricochet stepped forward to volunteer for a warrior position before stepping back between herself and Smoke.
Her thoughts were interrupted by an entirely unfamiliar voice, and her gaze flickered briefly toward the source. Only to come back again with startled surprise at the sight of an enormous mare with a willow tree growing on her back. Now she'd seen it all! Or at least assumed so. But her curiosity could only be held for so long, before she looked back to Paladin.
Gathering her courage, Kimber stepped from the shadow of Ricochet's side. "Excuse me, Paladin. But why are you leaving open a spot for a pegasus when they all choose to live in the Throat or with Mirage, except for Xenos? And we didn't have any unicorns until Archibald brought his family here, and then you." Her voice gained strength as she kept going. "We had equine leaders because none of the unicorns expressed interest until you, and now you've changed everything."
