05-18-2020, 07:34 PM
Shipka
Can you talk to stars too?
It would be a strange question to ask anyone, and her thin experience has been that most would say no - and perhaps not only 'no,' because the idea of talking to stars sounds mad if you've never done it. Shipka, red-nosed and teary-eyed, only looks at the pale mare in wonder. How did she know? In one swift motion, the girl wipes the dust from her nose and circles her attention back up to those purple eyes.
"How do you know about that?"
The day is truly done, and as the sky darkens, the filly becomes less visible, not by any magic, but because her midnight coat with its flecks of white seems to fade into the background of clear sky. Not so for her companion, who glows and pulsates softly, who draws her in like a moth by looking so like the stars that she does speak to in the dark of night. The little appaloosa is enthralled and her grey eyes widen. Is that how she knows? How else could she, Shipka had not told anybody, she had hugged her secret tightly to her chest, but the star-woman saw right through her.
"Are you a star?" Her voice is an awed whisper and she closes the space between them again, although she remembers not to touch, this time, "Is that how you knew?"
She had tried to reach them in the sky without ever checking to see if there were any walking the Earth, first. A small frown turns the corners of her lips down thoughtfully.
"Are there others down here? Could... could you take me up there? What's it like? I tried to get there myself but it's such a high climb, the sun always comes up too soon! Or my mama wakes up and wants to know what I'm doing and... and I haven't told her yet, cuz, well, it's just so much more fun to have a secret."
She gushes information like a fountain, splashing into the still well of the mare without noticing that her enthusiasm is not returned in kind, and without realizing how easily she gives up that tightly held secret. Secrets are fun, but only if there's someone you can share them with and if anyone will keep them, surely it's a star? They've kept all her other secrets, so far.
"My name is Shipka! What kind of names do stars get?"
It would be a strange question to ask anyone, and her thin experience has been that most would say no - and perhaps not only 'no,' because the idea of talking to stars sounds mad if you've never done it. Shipka, red-nosed and teary-eyed, only looks at the pale mare in wonder. How did she know? In one swift motion, the girl wipes the dust from her nose and circles her attention back up to those purple eyes.
"How do you know about that?"
The day is truly done, and as the sky darkens, the filly becomes less visible, not by any magic, but because her midnight coat with its flecks of white seems to fade into the background of clear sky. Not so for her companion, who glows and pulsates softly, who draws her in like a moth by looking so like the stars that she does speak to in the dark of night. The little appaloosa is enthralled and her grey eyes widen. Is that how she knows? How else could she, Shipka had not told anybody, she had hugged her secret tightly to her chest, but the star-woman saw right through her.
"Are you a star?" Her voice is an awed whisper and she closes the space between them again, although she remembers not to touch, this time, "Is that how you knew?"
She had tried to reach them in the sky without ever checking to see if there were any walking the Earth, first. A small frown turns the corners of her lips down thoughtfully.
"Are there others down here? Could... could you take me up there? What's it like? I tried to get there myself but it's such a high climb, the sun always comes up too soon! Or my mama wakes up and wants to know what I'm doing and... and I haven't told her yet, cuz, well, it's just so much more fun to have a secret."
She gushes information like a fountain, splashing into the still well of the mare without noticing that her enthusiasm is not returned in kind, and without realizing how easily she gives up that tightly held secret. Secrets are fun, but only if there's someone you can share them with and if anyone will keep them, surely it's a star? They've kept all her other secrets, so far.
"My name is Shipka! What kind of names do stars get?"
@[Islas]