And nothing else compares.
She refused to come out from her shade and cover unless given ample enough reason, so she watched him from afar. Magic, he explained. Fiachra's ears pricked in singular interest. He was the first to exhibit or even speak of magic here in Helovia. In the Oaken Riy where she had grown up, magic was often spoke of in legend and song, but never had she been seen any performed. Long ago, she had forgone the idea that magic really existed, filing it away among the other things that could never be proven, much like the existence of the Three Mythics. There were few things she believed in that could not be seen with her very eyes and until today, magic had been one of them.
Her ebony lips parted in a quiet intake of breath. Peering at his hooves, she tried to detect the movement he must be performing to remain gliding across the water's surface. He seemed to not exert any effort at all. "How wonderful!" Fiachra exclaimed, wishing to look closer, but unwilling to step back out into the downpour. "Were you born with such an ability, or did you acquire it somehow?" She was abrupt in her eagerness to learn, she realized. "If you don't mind my asking," added she, for fear she may have seemed rude.
"Talk."
@Erebos