the Rift


. wet . cassiopeia .

Huyana Posts: 83
Aurora Basin Scholar
Mare :: Unicorn :: 15 hands :: 7 years Buff: NOVICE
Krazie
#1

She must be tireless - like the ocean; unfaltering, relentless.

But what is she now but a raindrop among so many? Small, unrecognizable, falling.

It begins to drizzle softly, barely wetting her coat of silver and black, water sliding off her onyx horn easily, repelled by its smooth exterior. She has found the sea; beautiful and magnificent, cloaked by dark clouds that barely wept. It reminds her vaguely of home, and she cannot help but have a wave of nostalgia, like so much sea-water, sweep her off her feet. With longing in her breast, she dreams of dolphins and cloudless days, of fine golden sand and palm trees.

But this beach is an imposter, as barren as her blue heart, its sand grey and sea grass coarse and too salty. She stands in the dark, swirling waters, the cool kiss of brine stunning her as it washes past black legs. Chest-deep, her swarthy head is angled upwards, rivulets of rain traveling effortlessly on the delicate panes of her face. The roan girl does not mind the wetness; she thrives on it, the feel of dank chilly fingers on her peppered body.


EDIT: please pretend this is at night xD I completely forgot!

Cassiopeia Posts: 171
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Mare :: Pegasus :: 15 hands :: 8 years old
Phantom
#2
The Endless Blue had became a sacred location in the reverence of the blue roan mare that now roamed across its cooling, amber sands. This had quickly matured into one of her favorite places in all of Helovia, and rightfully so. Here was where her daughter had gotten her first hazy introduction to the world, and had taken her first trembling steps; where she had finally accepted the feelings she shared for Azzuen, now her devoutly beloved mate and dearest companion, as well as where she had first demonstrated her magic to him amongst the stars, and he to her; here she had found the amulet that now swung like a pendulum from her neck as she walked, glowing faintly in the moonlight due to the magic harbored within.

As usual at this time of day, Columba soared nearby, for it was her preferent constellation to animate. She adored flying next to the heavenly aviary, enthralled by the exhilaration of sailing alongside a creature of the stars: a literal tenant of the infinite reaches of space, which she so passionately yearned to explore. Even absent of flying she treasured the company when lingering across Helovia under the cover of nightfall, when things were quiet and still and peaceful.

It was rare that she came across another in these sparse late night wanderings, and she was almost always contented when she did, as she was now. A statuesque figure had caught her eyes, breast deep in the saline solution, the ritual ebb and flow of the tide gently thrumming against her svelte physique. Beads of rain rippled on the surface of the ocean as the fell from the heavens, the cool fluid likewise descending upon Cassiopeia's frame, though she paid it little heed.

The unicorn seemed deep in thought, as was profoundly easy when reigned in by the hypnotizing beauty of the sea: her untamed restlessness; her inability to be conquered; her utter unpredictability. She waited until she was near enough for her legato voice to reach her ears, her vocalism feminine and gentle as it poured from her lips. "She is beautiful - the sea - isn't she? She is what everyone yearns to be; free, spontaneous, boundless." She was now submersed in the waters, a swarm of fish fleetly assuming position at her hooves. She was unsure what had caused her to greet the mare in such a manner, she only hoped she could relate in some way.

She too now stood bosom deep, relishing in the soothing motion of the tide as the acrid waves lightly kissed her sleek, silvern pelage. "Excuse my manners, my name is Cassiopeia. Who might you be?" Columba had been long gone by now, her scintillating structure now vaguely assembled once again in its natural state within the stars. To occupy its space, Cassiopeia had beckoned the constellation Delphinus to emerge from its emplacement in the infinite heavenly waters of the stars.

She conducted the ethereal creature of the sea to make its way toward the unicorn and pegasus submerged in the shallow depths. Its iridescent body glided with ease through the saline waters, an array of pearlescent debris dancing freely in its wake. It leaped from its watery encampment, absolved from the bonds of gravity for merely an instant. Light radiated from its sleek contours, setting the encompassing water's surface ablaze with the fiery pigment of an inferno. It emit an echoing trill in a jubilant salutation to the pair in the shoals before becoming deluged once again.

It then resumed its aqueous journey, darting swiftly much like a torpedo through the brine, its fluke tail propelling it forward with ease. With haste it approached them, and once it did, it swam zealously around the unicorn. Excitedly it hoisted it's luminous body above the water, face to face with the horned maiden, balancing on its tail as it pumped effortfully. Playfully it touched its nose against her velvety muzzle, then promptly and with great ardency leaped from the tides, arcing backward with great dramatization and emitting a trill as it did so.

It plunged into the shallow waters, cambering just enough to barely disturb the sand below it. A spray of liquid became airborne, some of the droplets clinging their the roans' fur. Sometimes Cass's creations took on a life of their own. She enjoyed witnessing such occasions.
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NPC Posts: 298
User-based Random Event
Stallion :: Equine :: ::
#3


The celestial body of the roan mare's creation had not gone unnoticed by the tenants of the sea. Seemingly vexed by the intriguing creature, a pod of dolphins had emerged from the deeper reaches of the Endless Blue, their sleek, argent bodies arcing with jubilant ease from the sleek surface of the water as they sought to investigate the strange mammal. An anthem of trills filled the air, emit euphorically from those silver dancers teasing along the ocean's rolling crests. They swiftly made their way through the turbulent brine, their fluke propellers impelling them forward effortlessly. The moonlight glinted off their streamlined bodies as they darted beneath the indigo surf and stopped a few yards from pair of horses. They poked their heads above the water, watching their astral brethren curiously, too timid to approach the two mares.



Huyana Posts: 83
Aurora Basin Scholar
Mare :: Unicorn :: 15 hands :: 7 years Buff: NOVICE
Krazie
#4
H U Y A N A
the world is drowning

Rainchild finds herself caught within the tidepool of her mind whilst the whole world swims on carelessly, propelled on by the need to be recognized, the blind lust for power and the instinct to follow. She lets the raindrops wane and the clouds overhead dissipate, revealing a sky lit softly by the moon, its dark fabric tattered by gleaming stars; they reflect in her eyes, a diffused kind of light, spreading through the iris in dark gentle blues and silver, a nebula in their own right as they find the airborne mare, outlined by moonlight and accompanied by a star-bird. Huyana is silent, leonine tail twitching idly as if in waiting - for whom?

When the moonblessed pegasus lands, she is met with a gentle splash, laughter from the ocean as she embraces another into her watery arms. There are stars swimming in her eyes as well, like little silver fish in a sea of teal. The stranger draws closer to our peppered mare, her voice quiet and reverent, as if afraid of waking some sea nymph. Black lips part in a smile as benign as the fingers of water stroking their matched legs of jet, cool as a lover's kiss, glimmering from the moon's pale smile. "Desire and reality are a very different thing, and there are very few who are gracious as she," she says kindly, bowing her inky head in greeting.

This nighttime intruder, so affable and so close in appearance as the roan, dispenses her name easily, like so many are prone to do. Cassiopeia, like the name of a star, so fitting for one who travels in starlight. This exchange will require a name in return, however, and Huyana inhales slightly, relishing the sharp smell of salt. "I am no-one," she murmurs, turning her eyes to the dark horizon, distance in her gaze, like the light years between planets and the vast expance of the ocean. That is a lie, something whispers, something thought to be lost but found. You are the sea and the stars and the nighttime sky and the mist in the morning - you are everything and nothing, queen of nowhere but your mind, a prisoner to your soul, a nighttime wind.

Something distracts her; a hint of light which illuminated the two black faces like day. Blue eyes flick towards Cassiopeia in curiosity. She sees something plunge into the water from the periphery of her vision, several somethings. Sleek, glittering bodies leap from the surface, foam clinging to their forms. She recognizes them immediately: dolphins! A laugh escapes her, a pretty chiming thing; the playful gurgle of falling water.

There is a star creature among them, and the rainchild can only assume that it is of Starfeather's creation as it dances with the others; a divine harmony between the physical and the surreal. The pod pauses before the two roans like shy dogs, their splashes spilling over the girl's chest, platinum hairs black with water. Her mane is pregnant with water, careless tendrils dripping brine as her neck cranes forward, inky nose inclined towards the pseudo fish, like she is greeting old friends.

"Children of the sea," rainchild says with an easy laugh, "- although some may be more celestial than others." Eyes the color of rain find the pegasus, inquiring. "What draws you to the ocean at this hour of night, Starfeather? Or are you a constellation as well?" She finds herself watching the skyborn dolphin with his joyful antics again, elated that something so pristine could exist in this dirty world.



[sorry this is so late @___@]

Cassiopeia Posts: 171
Hidden Account
Mare :: Pegasus :: 15 hands :: 8 years old
Phantom
#5
This mare spoke in cordial tones, her words allocated with subtle wisdom. A smile, faint yet benign, bloomed upon the celestial dame's charred lips, attended by a slight inclination of her slender face in unspoken concordance. This mare is not unlike herself, she determined, in defiance of the tapered protrusion that twisted from the others brow.

The moonlight reflected upon her silvern coat much like Cassiopeia's own; their leonine tails contrived in similar fashions. Perhaps it was in the docile sway of their voices that gave farther distinction to their individual persons. Where Cassiopeia's voice accommodated a gentle and elegant, yet fluent air, the unicorn's was rhetoric in a eloquent, appeasing way. The two were even poised at about the same height; their coats stained with the same peppered roan; their eyes swarming with a synonymous tincture of cerulean. "How right you are." She concurred, her hooves finding purchase among the coarse granulars that enshrouded the ocean floor.

She conveyed her svelte figure to stand alongside the rainchild, looking toward her inquisitively as she awaited the arrival of her voice. I am no one, it finally came. The roan maiden's slender ears percolated atop the zenith of her head. She shot her a curious glance - a look of wonderment, though not excessively so. "To be no one to anyone is one of the greatest diseases." She chimed mindlessly, though perhaps there was an elusive devisal of wisdom that the roan - the same roan implied earlier - would understand. "What may I call you, then?" Huyana (although Cassiopeia hadn't known her name, of course) seemed to be a captive of her own mind's thoughtful prison, the look of meaningful rumination wrought starkly upon her features.

She is surprised then, though pleasantly, as her celestial animation seemed to have beckoned a pod of dolphins to emerge and investigate. Beads of liquid adhered to her sleek coat, her mane likewise imbrued with the crystalline pearls. Rivulets of water descended from the saturated strands as she partook in Huyana's jubilation. A trill of laughter welled up in her bosom, the combined sound of which creating a lovely duet of mirth as they watched the aquatic dancers.

She smiled at the mention of the constellation, though her own teal eyes did not find the horned maiden's until an inquiry rang out. She had no objections to the friendly moniker she had been given, instead embracing it and going so far as to dub the architect with a nickname of her own conception. "The sea is hard to refuse, as you must know, Raindancer." She peered toward her, wondering what her reaction may be to the name she had devised. "Plus, night is far more novel than day." Delphinus had since made his way toward the pod of dolphins, encouraging them to greet the pair in the shoals.

[ ooc ; that post was so beautiful, Krazie. ;-; ]
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NPC Posts: 298
User-based Random Event
Stallion :: Equine :: ::
#6


The pod greeted Delphinus eagerly and shyly all at once. As excited as they were to see their night-brother, they were taken aback by his starry image. Still, his calls were a comfort and his image one of beauty; they could only resist for so long. When his tail lifted and he beckoned them to the shore, they fell under his spell at last and drew closer to the two unfamiliar mares, barking loudly and cheerfully and interrupting the rhythm of the tides as they drew closer to the creatures on the shore.

As they neared, the water that rose about their forms slid between the cracks of their starry sibling and caught in it starlight. The droplets and waves formed to create images of the scene; of the dolphins in the ocean and the stars that shone above them. Water froze around the pair and surrounded them like a starry night sky, forming a roof over their heads where the dolphins tails were seen poking through the surface, and the echoes of their cries were increased in volume tenfold. Peace enveloped the mares on the shore as sound and light flashed around them, etched in the water as if it were the walls of an ancient cave. The pictures moved and showed the pair's movements; illustrated Delphinus and the pod even as they swirled about the pair. Occasionally fins would poke through the surface, proving that it could be passed through, but for the most part the evidence of the pod was in shadow and gentle stirrings of the ocean that rested above them.

[[Picture them in a cave made with water with Delphinus and the pod swimming in the roof, and cave drawings on the wall of the thread as it happens.]]




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