 I can remember a time when I was so afraid when even my shadow wouldn't follow me Today was going to be a day to remember. She could feel it, deep in her heart that thundered softly within her breast. She wasn't quite sure what it was about the way that the sun touched her frame created of gold not so different from the sunshine that reaches down upon the world. The unseen wind runs its finders through her silken, snowy tresses, and she just knew. Excitement raced through her veins and with a push off from the ground she is racing towards somewhere, no where, every where, all at the same time. That gleaming gold coat reflects off the snow, and she stands out against the monotone landscape. For so long, her days had been spent within so many different protective borders, Windskeep, Murmuring Rivers, Paraiso, Woodlands, Culloden, with eyes watching over her, voicing their concern for her protection. And, for so long, she had been blissfully content with the peaceful way of all of these lands, and the protection she was given. Elaina would spend her morning strolling through both the wooded and sunny areas with one or two or three of her many cousins, and then spend her afternoons beside the lake, exhausted from swimming and racing with her crimson cousin. Only to then retire to Lovelace’s cavern before beginning the day all over again in much the same fashion. What more had she been able to ask for given her situation? She had convinced herself that she didn't need grand adventures or wild thrills to be happy, Elaina thought all she needed was her home and her family. Until freedom found her bones and a wildness raced in her blood. She halted her running then, feet finding purchase within the snowy ground to bring herself to a sliding halt. The field. Golden twin peaks flicked atop her head, gossamer tendrils flicking softly against her flank. She was beginning to recognize the pieces of this land as she continued her travels. For once, she finds her mind is no longer on her crimson cousin. (Who she has still gained no word of.) Instead, she is thinking of another face, a beautiful mare she had met out in the field: Kensa. A leader here in Beqanna. Until meeting Kensa, Elaina had convinced herself that she was only sticking around this land to get Lilli and to make sure she was okay, but since meeting the mare, she has found herself beginning to relax, to calm. Roots had yet to take purchase within the soil of this new land, but they had emerged, and were looking for a place to settle. The strangest part of it though, was perhaps Elaina was not fighting the feeling, but rather, she willed them to grow faster. Perhaps, she was going to stay after all. Her steps once more pick up the pace as she moves into a trot. For what she believes to be only a moment, those amber eyes as bright as a whirling firestorm, close beneath long, dark, feminine lashes, but when they flutter back open, a mass is before her and Elaina doesn't have a chance to stop herself. “Oh no,” she says before bumping into them and quickly shuffling backwards. “Oh no,” she repeats, looking to the face she had just quite literally blundered into. “I am so sorry, I was just enjoying the day and not paying attention,” she says, shaking that head adorned with those blonde locks, revealing the heart shaped marking upon her brow. She grins then, trying to make light of an awkward situation. “I’m Elaina, although I am considering my formal title to be Elaina the clumsy, I hope the pleasure is still mine to meet you.” benjamin and beylani's sunflower-girl |
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