10-06-2018, 12:46 PM
The sound of her heartbeat is nearly as loud as the pounding of her hooves, and it is not until the white filly is out to sea that the crash of eaves is finally able to drown them both. She stops nearly a mile out to sea, but when she spins around with a loud laugh, there is no one behind her. There, far distant on the shore, is the colorful family member with whom she’d be playing tag. They hadn’t seen her race out to sea, it would seem, and she has won the game – at least for now. Her breathing remains rapid, and she turns around to look back in the direction she’d been running. She’s at least a third of the way to the mainland, Kypria thinks.
She has never been good at judging distances.
Seizing this unexpected opportunity (Mother is at their swimming pond and Father in the strip of water between their island and the big island), the purple-haired fill makes a bolt for freedom.
The day is bright and sunny, and there is a strong breeze blowing toward the mainland. Kypria flares out her glittering fins, and uses them to the advantage of speed as she races – leaping now and again – ahead. She feels like her cousin must when he is flying, and she loses her sense of time entirely. She has left the ocean, she realizes somewhere in the back of her mind, and is running upstream in a wide river. She doesn’t stop until the river widens into an enormous lake. Perched at the edge of still water and running, the lavender and white filly finally slows to a stop.
All around her, great mountains push into the sky. Their slopes all angle toward her – or rather, toward the lake she stands on – and they are covered with trees that are definitely not the palms that she knows. The air here feels different. Light, cooler. Less humid, she remembers her mother’s description of places that are not their tropical home. Kypria has never been a very good student in those lessons. She is more interested in running and climbing and swimming and anything that involves moving. The two year old filly stretches her fins before folding them to her sides.
She takes a step forward, onto the lake, and falls in.
The surface gives without warning, a violation of the water walking that Kypria has always known.
Fortunately, the water here is still slow moving, and shallow enough that she is gasping and upright within seconds, the water reaching just past her chest here at the edge of the lake. She makes her way to the shore slowly and deliberately, shaking away the water. Her lavender mane, once sleek and flowing, now lays clumped and dripping on her white neck. It reveals the sapphire patch of hair on her right side, a jolt of bright color on her otherwise empty hide. She hears the sound of someone coming and glances up, her hazel eyes wide and embarrassed.
@[Rhaegor]
She has never been good at judging distances.
Seizing this unexpected opportunity (Mother is at their swimming pond and Father in the strip of water between their island and the big island), the purple-haired fill makes a bolt for freedom.
The day is bright and sunny, and there is a strong breeze blowing toward the mainland. Kypria flares out her glittering fins, and uses them to the advantage of speed as she races – leaping now and again – ahead. She feels like her cousin must when he is flying, and she loses her sense of time entirely. She has left the ocean, she realizes somewhere in the back of her mind, and is running upstream in a wide river. She doesn’t stop until the river widens into an enormous lake. Perched at the edge of still water and running, the lavender and white filly finally slows to a stop.
All around her, great mountains push into the sky. Their slopes all angle toward her – or rather, toward the lake she stands on – and they are covered with trees that are definitely not the palms that she knows. The air here feels different. Light, cooler. Less humid, she remembers her mother’s description of places that are not their tropical home. Kypria has never been a very good student in those lessons. She is more interested in running and climbing and swimming and anything that involves moving. The two year old filly stretches her fins before folding them to her sides.
She takes a step forward, onto the lake, and falls in.
The surface gives without warning, a violation of the water walking that Kypria has always known.
Fortunately, the water here is still slow moving, and shallow enough that she is gasping and upright within seconds, the water reaching just past her chest here at the edge of the lake. She makes her way to the shore slowly and deliberately, shaking away the water. Her lavender mane, once sleek and flowing, now lays clumped and dripping on her white neck. It reveals the sapphire patch of hair on her right side, a jolt of bright color on her otherwise empty hide. She hears the sound of someone coming and glances up, her hazel eyes wide and embarrassed.
@[Rhaegor]