02-12-2019, 07:27 PM
She isn’t sure why she is here.
As she grew older – though she was still young, less than half a year – it was more often that she drifted from her mother’s side, cautiously exploring the rest of what Beqanna had to offer. There was so much more to this big world than the small corner that she shared with her mother. Even though she enjoyed the quiet, and preferred to be nestled in her mother’s warm side when night fell, there was still a part of her little heart that wanted friends. Someone closer to her age, someone to laugh and play all the games she had seen other children playing. Little Everli has always been too shy to approach any of them, and so she had simply watched; their laughter ringing in her ears, their joyous thoughts echoing in her mind. It was easier to simply imagine what might be, rather than risk rejection.
Loess didn’t seem like a likely place to find friends, and yet, she is here. It is close enough to the forest that she and her mother frequented that she should be able to to explore it, and make it back before nightfall. She isn’t sure if she is imagining it, but it almost seems hotter here than the other places she has been, which she assumes it is from the lack of trees. In the forest, she was shaded by the great limbs of the trees, but here, in the wide expanse, there is nothing to hinder the summer sunshine that spilled across her mulberry and blue skin.
The terrain here was not particularly friendly, either, as her small hooves followed a winding path up a rocky hillside. It was lovely, but unforgiving – not at all something that she was used to. She was beginning to regret choosing this particular path, but when she tilts her head upward, something pale and blue catches her eye. She blinks her warm brown eyes, and just as she realizes that it’s a boy not much older than her, he vanishes. Her eyes widening in alarm, she continues her trek upwards, calling out hesitantly to what could very well be no one at all, ”Hello?” Her voice is incredibly quiet, almost carried away by a swift breeze that ripples through the canyon. She stills her movements, a dejected sigh fluttering from her blue lips. There must be something wrong with her, when complete strangers choose to disappear at the very sight of her.
@[Pteron]
As she grew older – though she was still young, less than half a year – it was more often that she drifted from her mother’s side, cautiously exploring the rest of what Beqanna had to offer. There was so much more to this big world than the small corner that she shared with her mother. Even though she enjoyed the quiet, and preferred to be nestled in her mother’s warm side when night fell, there was still a part of her little heart that wanted friends. Someone closer to her age, someone to laugh and play all the games she had seen other children playing. Little Everli has always been too shy to approach any of them, and so she had simply watched; their laughter ringing in her ears, their joyous thoughts echoing in her mind. It was easier to simply imagine what might be, rather than risk rejection.
Loess didn’t seem like a likely place to find friends, and yet, she is here. It is close enough to the forest that she and her mother frequented that she should be able to to explore it, and make it back before nightfall. She isn’t sure if she is imagining it, but it almost seems hotter here than the other places she has been, which she assumes it is from the lack of trees. In the forest, she was shaded by the great limbs of the trees, but here, in the wide expanse, there is nothing to hinder the summer sunshine that spilled across her mulberry and blue skin.
The terrain here was not particularly friendly, either, as her small hooves followed a winding path up a rocky hillside. It was lovely, but unforgiving – not at all something that she was used to. She was beginning to regret choosing this particular path, but when she tilts her head upward, something pale and blue catches her eye. She blinks her warm brown eyes, and just as she realizes that it’s a boy not much older than her, he vanishes. Her eyes widening in alarm, she continues her trek upwards, calling out hesitantly to what could very well be no one at all, ”Hello?” Her voice is incredibly quiet, almost carried away by a swift breeze that ripples through the canyon. She stills her movements, a dejected sigh fluttering from her blue lips. There must be something wrong with her, when complete strangers choose to disappear at the very sight of her.
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@[Pteron]