[private] Let the feeling come take you - Leilan, Nashua

[Nashua]

stars when you shine, you know how i feel
oh freedom is mine

"Me?” Nashua says, feigning shock. The gleam in his eyes says otherwise. More like a few hundred times and then some, Nash thinks with a smirk. Once the young pegasus had found wings, @[Yanhua] had more or less been the unfortunate tester of his practice landings.

As they got a little older, trying to fly over Yan had become their own version of William Tell with Nash trying to avoid the ram horns of his twin brother and Yanhua trying to avoid any lack of precision Nashua most likely had. (Popinjay had loved the stories about this game. His Aunts had frowned and tried to encourage other ways for the colts to test their growing abilities.)

The time for joking doesn’t last long. Nashua turns his attention back to Leilan when the Dragon King asks it of him. The larger stallion looks around and Nash more or less follows with a shorter version of the action, wondering if there was something they should be looking for. Leilan backs three steps away from them and then lowers his head with a command.

"Shit,” Nashua says quietly, not expecting a spar.

He glances to his brother, trying to catch the blue eyes of Yanhua. This spar is meant to be an elementary lesson on fighting another with experience, another with traits perhaps greater than their own. It’s an introduction to the other kinds of horses the twins are bound to face in the Alliance. There is even the chance that Nash and Yan might have to fight against each other but today, Nashua has an idea.

If they are to get an education about fighting, they might as make the most the opportunity and learn everything they can.

Moving carefully a few steps from Yanhua, Nashua can feel the tension coiling underneath his copper coat like electricity. His muscles tightened and the young stallion focused all his energy into charging forward, rearing up aiming to strike behind Leilan’s shoulder as he came down (is there a weakness in his scales?). Nash could attempt to distract the Freyr from this side so Yan might attempt a move of his own.

NASHUA

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