05-19-2021, 09:48 PM
The light that meets the dark
The whole of Loess will come to know of Obscene in the weeks to come, Cheri included, but now the younger fledgling pegasus is content to be on this journey with Tarian. They’re talking about things she never had the freedom to discuss back at home, and as taboo as the subject becomes it feels more freeing than anything. A typical mare her age might be more concerned with trivial things: the up-and-coming bachelors of the season, socializing, finding mates. Cheri was … an odd duck. A curious, odd duck who had yet to fully blossom.
Tarian’s confirmation that she was headed down the right path was exactly the kind of water she’d been hoping to swim in, and she liked him better because of it. Despite her first impression of the pale gray stallion, he had a knack for growing on a horse.
“Not much, sadly.” She followed carefully in his hoofsteps, the two of them treading along a narrow path between the growing canyons. “Only that his father lived here before settling in Taiga. Oh,” She remembered the most important string, “his mother is, was Lilliana - Guardian of the Redwoods - if that helps.” She offered. By association, Cheri thought for sure that name-dropping her gramma Lilli would be the key to solving the obscure mystery surrounding Yanhua’s parentage.
Everyone else around her seemed to know, so why not Cheri?
She listened aptly to anything Tarian might offer, hoping that his five years spent among the red hills and steaming hot springs would uncover another destination for her to explore on this journey back into her family’s past. All the while, the two horses navigated a serene and impossibly beautiful wilderness, one ripe with all sorts of creatures and manner of growth. Cheri took in the sights of native birds soaring high above them and often reached to inhale the musty, sand-soaked smell of a bristling bush or clump of hardy grass. The terrain underneath them never gave way to softer ground, allowing for their hollow steps to clop in a haunting echo against the spires and rocks.
“West.” She nodded certainly, having flown above this section once and seen the misty glade of fog that covered a hot spring nearby. It would be nice to have a little covey by the water. She smiled brightly back at him. “I hope you can handle a little more noise now that I’m around.”
Tarian’s confirmation that she was headed down the right path was exactly the kind of water she’d been hoping to swim in, and she liked him better because of it. Despite her first impression of the pale gray stallion, he had a knack for growing on a horse.
“Not much, sadly.” She followed carefully in his hoofsteps, the two of them treading along a narrow path between the growing canyons. “Only that his father lived here before settling in Taiga. Oh,” She remembered the most important string, “his mother is, was Lilliana - Guardian of the Redwoods - if that helps.” She offered. By association, Cheri thought for sure that name-dropping her gramma Lilli would be the key to solving the obscure mystery surrounding Yanhua’s parentage.
Everyone else around her seemed to know, so why not Cheri?
She listened aptly to anything Tarian might offer, hoping that his five years spent among the red hills and steaming hot springs would uncover another destination for her to explore on this journey back into her family’s past. All the while, the two horses navigated a serene and impossibly beautiful wilderness, one ripe with all sorts of creatures and manner of growth. Cheri took in the sights of native birds soaring high above them and often reached to inhale the musty, sand-soaked smell of a bristling bush or clump of hardy grass. The terrain underneath them never gave way to softer ground, allowing for their hollow steps to clop in a haunting echo against the spires and rocks.
“West.” She nodded certainly, having flown above this section once and seen the misty glade of fog that covered a hot spring nearby. It would be nice to have a little covey by the water. She smiled brightly back at him. “I hope you can handle a little more noise now that I’m around.”
@[Tarian]