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Erthë Posts: 440
Outcast atk: 5.5 | def: 8.5 | dam: 5.5
Filly :: Hybrid :: 14,2 hh :: 3 years HP: 64.5 | Buff: NOVICE
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The underbrush was a secret world to those small and slender enough to get through it. Unseen from higher vantage points, hidden by dense greenery a labyrinth of pathways coursed back and forth, intersecting and joining only to split off again. Deer trails and rabbit paths ran alongside the stalking grounds of fox and ermines, here and there trailing off to hidden dens, nests, hollows and burrows. Wildlife was abundant if one only had the eyes - and altitude - to see it, and if you knew where to go it was a breeze to get by.

She knew these forests like the back of her own wing. Erthë had spent far more time roaming about the wilderness than in the northernmost herd that was supposed to be her home, all thanks to her vagabonding mother. With an uncanny knack for knowing which direction she was headed even though sun or stars couldn't be seen, she had turned into something of a woodland expert at the ripe age of four months.

Today she was moving with unusual haste along the winding tracks. She had napped a bit too long after the latest training session with her mother, and when she woke up the mare was gone. Gone! Just like that, without a word or any hint of where she might have gone. The filly was equal parts angry and worried, not for her own sake so much as for the black pegasus mare. She really didn't take well to the icky sickness that afflicted them both. Whereas she was still able to function quite normally, despite running nose and rattling coughs and a weird tendency to see colors in the dark where there should be none, her mother was worse off. Losing weight and always with a harrowed, pained look on her face, it was horrible to see the strong mare so downcast and weakened. Erthë didn't know what would happen if she collapsed somewhere. What if they didn't find one another, what if Shadow ended up too sick to move, what if the little she had learned from uncle Badger about herbs and healing wasn't enough to help her?

So she hurried, because the scent of her mother had still been lingering in the air, meaning she couldn't be far off. Bursting through the thicket at breakneck speed, she thought herself able to recognize a dark figure in a clearing up ahead. Elation bloomed like wild flowers within, and with a triumphant expression the little hybrid girl burst out into the open, leaves and brambles tangled into the silky curls and every feather a ruffled, misalinged mess.

"Hi mom, I found you, sorry I overslept but.... OH!"

Skidding across the ground, legs splayed in an attempt to slow down, she came to an abrupt halt just before the black mare. The black, winged mare with sun-burned mane tips and brilliantly hued eyes that was decidedly not her mother. This person was too big, too old, too everything!

"Who are you!?" she asked, blunt and with something accusatory in the misty green eye - the right one, at least, because the left one was mostly hidden by coils of shimmering white hair. "Where's mom?"

Disappointment was a fact, rudeness the direct result of it. What was she supposed to do with this big old bag of a mare? No milk, no comfort, no familiar amethyst eyes lighting up at the sight of her... Really, if it wasn't Shadow then it wasn't good enough.




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Messages In This Thread
Up in the air [open] - by Nephele - 10-04-2015, 04:31 PM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Erthë - 10-04-2015, 05:04 PM
Up in the air [open] - by Nephele - 10-04-2015, 07:28 PM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Tembovu - 10-04-2015, 08:49 PM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Nephele - 10-04-2015, 09:55 PM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Erthë - 10-04-2015, 10:30 PM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Tembovu - 10-04-2015, 11:04 PM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Random Event - 10-04-2015, 11:36 PM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Nephele - 10-06-2015, 06:59 PM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Miykael - 10-06-2015, 11:24 PM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Random Event - 10-07-2015, 08:29 AM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Megaera - 10-07-2015, 11:50 AM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Erthë - 10-08-2015, 03:26 PM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Tembovu - 10-08-2015, 11:05 PM
Up in the air [open] - by Nephele - 10-09-2015, 01:41 PM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Miykael - 10-11-2015, 01:31 AM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Megaera - 10-11-2015, 07:59 PM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Erthë - 10-12-2015, 10:10 AM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Tembovu - 10-12-2015, 06:46 PM
Up in the air [open] - by Nephele - 10-13-2015, 10:33 AM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Miykael - 10-13-2015, 11:40 PM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Random Event - 10-14-2015, 08:29 PM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Nephele - 10-16-2015, 05:57 PM
RE: Up in the air [open] - by Random Event - 10-18-2015, 12:09 AM

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