It had taken some work but the colt finally managed to slip away from his mother for a short adventure on his own. The last couple months had been tough on them both with Levex disappearing and all the sadness that followed but with the nice weather he hoped that somehow they could manage to move on again. He missed his little brother, well technically Levex was actually the oldest but he wasn't here to defend the title so it was his now haha. No one would ever know the difference well except for mother that is but then again she had been all tired and stuff from their birth so maybe she didn't know anyways. It had been a confusing time for them all with all the new smells and the bright colours and the sights and the people. Speaking of which who was that black stallion that had been there? Was this is daddy? Maybe he could find him someday and figure it out but he hadn't the faintest idea where to start.

Kicking up his heels playfully he cantered the remaining distance to the field he had found with mother a couple weeks ago. With the warm sun overhead and the slight breeze maybe today would be the day he might finally figure out how to fly instead of ending up on his face like so many times before. He had been half tempted to try jumping off of something high and trying to fly that way but the cliff back home was the only high place he knew of and that was just a little scary. Slowing his pace to watch a yellow butterfly circling around above him he wished that he could join it up there. Lashing his tail for side to side for fun he tried to picture himself up there and the butterfly down here in the hopes that flying would be more of a willful wish. Feeling something yank at his tail the colt skittered sideways with a startled snort just as something bright shot across his vision to hit something behind him with a loud crack. "What the hell?!?" Wide eyed the colt tried to turn around only to find the mysterious tail yanker to be a prickly bush.

"Give that back!" He shouted chuckling to himself in the process as he reached forward to pull the strands of his hair from the bushes grasp. Pulling free from the bush after a minute with only a few twigs still stuck in his hair he turned to find something else rather baffling. A couple feet from the bush lay a sizzling patch of blackened earth smoldering brightly with the breeze. That must have been from that bright zappy thing that had shot by him... did he do that? Staring at the patch completely mystified the only conclusion he could come up with is that he had somehow created the sizzling lightning bolt. "Ooooh that's so cool!" Now how exactly did he do it? Could he do it again?





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The smoldering embers had to be one of the strangest things he had come across so far this week! The bonus factor is that he had somehow managed to create them! Walking in a circle around them he tried to think back to the streak of light he had seen. He had felt surprised and a little tingly but nothing out of the ordinary, well despite the tingly feelings. How could he manage to feel tingly again? Frowning he tried to think of anything logical to solve the problem but came up blank. A loud thunk drew his attention away from the embers as he turned his head to find the source. Turning around he found someone similar to him, well not exactly similar but still similar. They were somewhere around his age, with wings, and a girl... Wait no that wasn't a similarity he was clearly a boy. Pricking his ears forward happily he raises his head to get a good look at the girl.

"Hi! My name is Aeolus!" He replies brightly absolutely thrilled to meet someone around his age. " I live in the Edge." He tacks on afterward since the girl had already announced where she had come from.

There were not all that many others around his age that he had met so it made playtime a little boring at times. Levex had been fun to play with but he had to go and run away so now he had no one except for his mother. She tried to be fun but she wasn't all that good at playing, she always got tired to quickly.


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It was delightful to speak with someone that was closer to his age than many of the others he had been around his entire life. Grown ups never seemed to be as spontaneous or joyous making them boring and dull. When he spoke with them every answer seemed to take forever and was always so carried out by the time they finished speaking. Really just get to the point already! With his newest friend that wasn't the case. She spoke many questions rapidly making it challenging to remember all of them off the top of his head but hey that was the fun part. Making the wheels spin round presented him with a task and he liked doing tasks.

Right now for answers to those many questions. Was the Edge fun? Hmmm well it could be fun if you had someone to play with but then again exploring was also fun. "It can be fun yes. There are always new things to discover and find." He responded nodding his head in confirmation. Explorations had mostly ended up with him getting in trouble over something or another but they were one of his favourite things to do. One time they even found a glass statue! It was neat until they discovered that everyone else already knew about it. One down, another to go. Wait what was the second question again? Thinking back he pulled the strands of words from his memory. Like him... oh right it had been something about if there were others like him. " Sadly there are not too many others around my age that I have met well except for Ilios. My brother was fun to play with but since he ran away there hasn't been anyone except for mother."

The final question in the string was the most difficult for the colt to answer as he had yet to learn how to fly. Should he tell Spice that? No she would think of him as a baby and he was not a baby. He knew how to fly...well kind of. "Flying is hard back home with all the trees and such plus there is mist as well making it hard to see somedays. Its fun to play hide n seek in tho!" He commented brightly. There that wasn't a lie so he had done good, mother always said not to tell lies or else your nose would grow. "How about in the Throat what's it like there? Are there many our age? Realizing he was rambling excitedly he stopped the questions from flowing from his mouth so not to overwhelm the filly. He always had so many questions but could never answer them all like how the hell had he made the glowing embers and the flash of light.

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Listening to every word that his new friend said he found himself almost jealous at how she had gotten to play with more people than he had. Why did everyone their age seem to be everywhere but where he was? Maybe he would have to go on a adventure to find others like them to play with. Ya that sounded like a good idea! Tomorrow might be a good day to start maybe momma might know of somewhere he could go to find them. He would have to ask her when he went home later if he remembered by that time. "I've gone swimming before! " He commented brightly as he recognized the activity Spice had mentioned. It had been fun splashing around in the tide pools but swimming was a lot harder than it looked when his wings acted like deadweights most of the time. He was beginning to wonder if he would ever manage to find a way to make them work like they should to lift him high up off the ground.

By this time he had almost completely forgotten about the strange black spot he had been studying before until he felt the warmth of it on his foot. Turning his head back as he lifted his hind foot away he motioned excitedly to Spice. " Look at this! I found this thing earlier but I don't know what it came from. It just kinda appeared after this bright flashy sizzly thing shot by." Pivoting sideways so that his friend could see what he was so fascinated by he looked up to study her expression. Would she know what this thing was? Mother had spoken of strange magic before was this magic? How could they tell?




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Watching Spice's reaction to the information he was able to provide about the mystery spot he couldn't help but be estatic that she was even interested. Most grown ups would have likely glanced over at it from a distance, implied it was nothing and moved on. There had to be some connection between the flash of light he had seen and this mark. His thoughts trailed back to his earlier theory of if he had somehow created it. Back pedalling even further he tried to recall what he was doing just before it had happened. Well he had been surprised when the tree had attacked him but other than that he had felt nothing out of the ordinary. Could surprise be what triggered it?

"How could it be a fire stain?" He asked listening to the new thoughts that Spice brought to the table. "It just kinda appeared there." Lowering his muzzle to take a closer look at it he jumped slightly when Spice told him not to touch it. Well now that she had said that made him want to touch it even more. Plus didn't she just say the same thing about touching it? "I don't think it will hurt me.." He mused quietly hesitantly picking up his front hoof to poke at the marking.

Lifting his gaze for a moment to see what the filly was thinking he paused seeing the worry on her face. While hesitant, fear did not consume him at the thought of chancing his luck and poking at it. Carefully he lowered his foot to touch the surface before pulling back slightly as he set it down again this time for a longer second. The ground was warm but it wasn't burning... could it still be fire? "It's warm but it didn't blow up." He concluded with a playful grin.


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