As her black legs slunk alongside one another, carrying the shaggy buckskin pegasus from the nearby riverbank down into the open expanse of the meadow, Eyas licked her dry lips and pulled her tri-color wings closer against herself. It was late afternoon already, more like evening really - her dark gaze drifted up towards the sky and then returned to the path in front of her - but right now was the perfect time for the roving, disbanded loner to try and pass undetected. These few hours were hard on a horse’s sight; something about the way the light slanted turned everything in one’s foreground to black silhouettes.
If she focused, perhaps she could turn herself invisible for a little while. Long enough to slip past a few remaining stragglers trying to shove down a final meal before sunset. Eyas paused to consider how she would navigate through them, looking down at her hooves now and then to confirm that, yes, she was invisible right now. When the moment seemed right she drifted on again, walking nearly unseen and unheard through the undulating waves of meadow grass. She was almost certain that no one had seen her approach from the river…
Still, she held her breath when the most direct route led her past a trio of other mares and silently hoped they wouldn’t notice how the grass bent aside where she passed. One more to go, she managed to exhale quietly. Up ahead another horse was lingering, directly blocking where Eyas longed to be. Worst of all the breeze kept shifting; one wrong step and her horrid smell would give her away.
The pegasus faltered, trying too hard on deciding which way to go around them that for a minute her invisibility turned off and then on again, making it look as if a random equine was appearing and then disappearing in the Meadow.
All of which Eyas wasn’t keeping track of, ingrained as she was in her thoughts.
@Neverwhere
If she focused, perhaps she could turn herself invisible for a little while. Long enough to slip past a few remaining stragglers trying to shove down a final meal before sunset. Eyas paused to consider how she would navigate through them, looking down at her hooves now and then to confirm that, yes, she was invisible right now. When the moment seemed right she drifted on again, walking nearly unseen and unheard through the undulating waves of meadow grass. She was almost certain that no one had seen her approach from the river…
Still, she held her breath when the most direct route led her past a trio of other mares and silently hoped they wouldn’t notice how the grass bent aside where she passed. One more to go, she managed to exhale quietly. Up ahead another horse was lingering, directly blocking where Eyas longed to be. Worst of all the breeze kept shifting; one wrong step and her horrid smell would give her away.
The pegasus faltered, trying too hard on deciding which way to go around them that for a minute her invisibility turned off and then on again, making it look as if a random equine was appearing and then disappearing in the Meadow.
All of which Eyas wasn’t keeping track of, ingrained as she was in her thoughts.
@Neverwhere