live in the moment
A sigh escaped her lips. Wings raised and fell in fluid motion, eyes admiring the land below. She banked a little to the left to make a large U-turn back in the direction she came from. Eifa had been making circles like this for what felt like hours, but she knew it must not have been that long, for the sun hadn’t moved much in the sky. It was getting close to sunset, and still she hadn’t found anything entertaining to do. Perhaps she had already done everything fun the island had to offer and was just bored of it all. All the more reason to try something new, and perhaps leave Ischia for a bit.
She flew closer to the beach now, following along the shoreline from above. Gazing down lazily, while stifling a yawn, she lowered herself closer to the sandy ground just a little to get a better look at what was below. There was something on the beach that wasn’t there before. Narrowing her eyes to focus more, she quickly realized it was another horse, lying motionless on the loose sands.
Eifa tucked in her wings and made a dive to get to the beach quicker, letting them out to even herself for a safe landing once she got there. Fear gripped at her heart as she saw the wet horse lying still. Her first thought by assessing the scene was that the horse had drowned and was washed up, but one more look at the filly told her the other was alive. Relief washed over her as she saw the filly’s chest rise and fall with each breath, but that didn’t mean everything was fine and dandy.
“Are you alright?” She asked worriedly as she approached the stranger, looking her over to make sure she had received no injuries. If the filly had been drowning, it was possible that the waves pulled her dangerously close to the ocean floor, where rocks and other hard objects could be hit and cause injuries. But thankfully she didn’t see anything that suggested she had hit something. The filly only seemed to be winded by what she assumed to have been an unexpected turn of events.
