the Rift


[OPEN] Reflections, [o]

Caleb Posts: 135
Outcast atk: 5.5 | def: 8.5 | dam: 6.5
Stallion :: Hybrid :: 17.1hh :: 4yo :: Orangmoon HP: 69 | Buff: NOVICE
Henrietta :: Weimaraner :: None baylee
#1
           Caleb's steel eyes were focused downwards as he stood on the Flats. He analyzed the reflection the inch-deep water showed him. Chiseled obsidian dashed with porcelain crafted his regally beautiful cranium. He only looked quickly, with little desire to fixate further upon his reflection. His eyes sought the horizon, where salt flat meets sky, yet no matter how far he looked he saw nothing. The Lord of the Basin had told him to patrol the 'new lands', and he had never seen this one previously, thus assuming it was new. The Beast figured why few patrolled here... There was absolutely nothing.

          Dutiful, he picked up a trot and began moving. Beside him loped Henrietta, the only creature he would allow constantly by his side. After a few aimless minutes of trotted, Caleb began galloping. Henrietta continued her even lope, slowly falling behind him which she was perfectly okay with. As his hooves pounded into the water, salty sprays flung upwards from his hooves beating it. His muscles rippled powerfully with every single movement. At his flanks, his massive ebony wings unfurled and spread wide. Evenly, they began to beat. The momentum paired with the flapping granted his body flight, and soon he was soaring above the salt land.

          From above, he still couldn't really see much. His molten eyes could only find Henrietta's body loping around beneath him. The beast ascended, with each beat of his powerful appendages he gained feet of altitude. His salty legs and tail hung limp beneath him, flowing through the wind as he began to glide.

          From here, he could see the extent to which the Halycon Flats reflected. The sky was perfectly mirrored on it's smooth surface. If he hadn't know it was a salt flat, he would've thought the ground way below him was some sort of reflective marble. Each porcelain cloud, the crystalline sun, the cerulean sky.. they were all perfectly copied onto the salt flats. The smooth transition between ground and sky at the horizon was flawless and added a sort of eerie endlessness. 

          And then he knew... No one patrolled here because they would get lost. Caleb had been cautious about that- if he needed to go back, he could turn around and head in a straight line. The beast hadn't gone left or right, he just moved straight ahead and backwards, leaving the potential of getting lost rather minimal.

This is such a bad post, I suck at openings :( Open for anyone! Caleb is just patrolling
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a cold-hearted man was once a man that once cared too much.

Zyanya Posts: 70
Outcast
Mare :: Unicorn :: 14.1 hh :: VI
Tai
#2
Lost, lost indeed.
Somewhere along the way back from the Endless Blue, Zyanya confused North from South.  She began suspecting, correctly, that she was headed in the wrong direction when the heat from the sun grew more and more intense instead of giving way to the ever present breath of winter in the North.  Once more, the pale maiden found herself in a precarious situation where her lack of knowledge played a fierceful game against her.  She could turn around, seemingly to end up traveling back north, yet she had no way of telling if she was just going farther east.

Letting out a frustrated sigh, she continues moving - in search of anyone who might be able to help her find her way back home.

The grasses of the Thistle Meadow, as Thranduil had called it, begin to thin.  The trees dissipate.  Soon, sand becomes the only thing slopping about her cerulean hooves for a time.  Absently, Zyanya wonders if Seanan would appreciate the warmth of the sun reflected on the sand more than the crisp air in the Fields.  Her thoughts amble on, wondering what happened to the opalescent stallion, to Thranduil and Haldir, to Lena, to Rexanna, and even to the twins after they parted ways.  Meandering forward without purpose, it is with shock and surprise that a dainty hoof meets with water.

Looking around, the sight itself is dizzying.  Much like the at Endless Blue, the horizon before her disappeared.  Clouds, sky, the dazzling of the sunlight, appeared as two mirror images stretching out endlessly.  Beautiful, disorienting, dazzling, nauseating - Zyanya tightly shuts her eyes for her mind to get a grasp on reality.  Whenever her lavender eyes open, the world shifts, as if she is suddenly standing upon the sky, touching the clouds she learned were made of water not long ago.  Shaking her head, the girl attempt to find some sort of clarity.

That is when she sees it - a dog, grey in color, bounding across the water which only existed on the earth instead of the sky.  Like a moth to a flame, Zya races forward toward the beacon of reality.  The long tendrils of her mane and tail fly behind her her, beacons of white and blue dancing in the wind and revealing speed the grace of her body does not, trying to catch up to the loping creature who was... chasing a shadow?  Fear clinches slightly in the pit of her stomach, but following the advice of Thranduil, she dives forward without hesitation.

"Hello!" she calls after the dog, hoping them a friend rather than a foe.  The creature was likely a companion, like so many in this realm had, and if anything like Haldir, would understand her words even if she could not speak.

Please slow down, she prays, even as she keeps running, causing tiny cascades on the water below her hooves.
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We've made a fool out of love, when all we want is to be enough
when all we want is to feel enough
Zyanya
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@Caleb

NPC Posts: 298
User-based Random Event
Stallion :: Equine :: ::
#3
Scales slid across sand, across puddles, across rocks and stones, gliding sinuously, serpentining through pieces of sky, dust, and dunes. A long tongue flashed, darted, relishing in the scent of the unknown, before returning and curling back into its massive jaws. Others were nearby – a tempting predilection. Who was to play predator, who was to play prey?

She took her time, wiling away the pieces of hours, the snippets of moments, coiling around a lone tree before blending back into the colors and hues of the mismatched earth. The large serpent wished she could have the same brilliant quality as the surroundings; become a reflective portion of the grounds, camouflage into the pools of water, strike when everyone was mesmerized by sights and sounds – and no one the wiser when she sunk her fangs into their figures, when she gobbled, consumed, and devoured them whole.

The notion almost made her hiss with glee.

Instead, however, she eyed her newfound…friends. Both equines (a given around these parts – since when did Helovia have to be ruled by things with hooves and horns? Why not scales? Why not claws?), armed tooth and nail with swords, one with wings. Damn, she muttered to herself. He’d easily thwart her. But what about the angelic looking one…?

Temptation and hunger rattled her as she inched forward, slowly, cautiously, nearly silent. The puddles weren’t a deterrent. The grounds didn’t coax her away. Even their daggers couldn’t persuade her to cease and desist. She was starving, she was driven, she was enamored with the notion, with the idea, of having unicorn for lunch.

So she advanced, grew in height as she raised herself off the ground, and tried to wind her way around the mare’s left hind leg as she rampaged by.

@Caleb @Zyanya


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