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Post by Crow'sia on Jan 6, 2011 1:19:10 GMT -5
Gertrude
Because she was a horse both kind of heart and with a path now set firmly in her mind, when his ears suddenly dropped, Gertrude edged closure to the stranger and nudged his side with her muzzle. Her heart pounded when she did, but he sounded so very dejected, his voice like the fading cries of a dozen lost creatures, right into her soul. She tried to still the tremor of excitement that now overwhelmed her. The anticipation of the future, right there, close enough to touch, so easy to lose.
"You could change things," she whispered as he ate. An odd thing to do. To escape her, she realized, recognizing the strange look he had as he watched her. Or to escape something else. Some memory. And because that path was so clear, like a prophecy in her mind, the very young Gertrude let intuition carry her.
"You are remembering. So then you understand. That life is unkind. It can be better," she insisted, question and statement, all mingling together, all becoming one entity.
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Post by xxhadesxx on Jan 6, 2011 1:24:42 GMT -5
Hades lifted his cranium and moved a metre away. He didn't like talking about his past life and such. as he thought about it he gazed down towards the scar along his face.
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Post by Crow'sia on Jan 6, 2011 1:37:50 GMT -5
Gertrude
And there it was, walking away, that so fragile future. Gertrude thought she'd colic, her guts felt so twisted. Did she follow, did she let him walk away? The mare didn't have to wait long though, for Hades wandered back, considerably less cheery than before.
She nodded slowly, hoping to salvage what she could.
"We can all build our future, Hades. That is why I have stayed here. Why I have asked you to stay. The past is over. Whatever you remember is a memory." Gertrude followed his gaze, up to the clouds, where the sun floated on its perpetual journey across the sky. At night, perhaps, the storm of meteors would return, and darkness would be defeated, although she feared such storms, even though no rocks had ever truly fall to the earth. "The night is when I remember."
She smiled weakly and looked away. "I am silly. It is not my business to talk like I know you more than a moment. Would you like to see the territory?"
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Post by xxhadesxx on Jan 6, 2011 1:40:58 GMT -5
Hades smiled slightly, feeling a bit more hopeful. He nodded and rubbed his cranium on his fore leg. |
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Post by Crow'sia on Jan 6, 2011 14:38:16 GMT -5
Gertrude, Teheki
"Come on then," Gertrude said, smiling. "There's a grove where we sleep sometimes, and the creek's nearby. Lots of those in the meadows, but this one's closest."
The creek was a short walk off, two hills and a copse of maple away from the edge of the Lush Fields. Golden grass, and a single, lightning-struck oak lined the banks. With the sun still high, the mare took her time with Hades, occasionally stopping to point out various different patches of trees, although there were honestly few. The fields were a sprawling plain of low hills and tall grasses. Sometimes even Gertrude lost herself.
Careful not to stumble- seeming anything less than graceful in front of the stallion was unbearable for her- Gertrude tip-toed down the slight slope, and dipped her lips into the cool water of the river to drink. She shivered with delight, when she noticed a lithe, pale form, staring at her from across the tiny brook.
"You have company, daughter," Teheki said. Her sharp eyes were darting between her and Hades in a rather comical fashion, as the other mare was forced to turn her head this way and that to see. Teheki snorted. "Have you come alone, stallion?"
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Post by xxhadesxx on Jan 6, 2011 18:16:17 GMT -5
As Hades had followed Gertrude to the Creek. As he watched Gertrude drink he smiled. Faintly seeing something on the other side, Hades moved next to Gertrude with his cranium high as he pawed the terra aggressively. "Whats it to you?" he snorted. |
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Post by Crow'sia on Jan 6, 2011 19:19:32 GMT -5
Gertrude, Teheki
"And what company it is!" she cried. For her own part, Teheki had never been kind to stallions, apart from her brother, now lost. The older mare crossed the river in one elegant leap, and settled on the other side of Gertrude. She was taller than her daughter, although not by much, and her kind face was marred by ever roving and sharp eyes.
"This is Hades," Gertrude said through gritted teeth. Teheki was rarely so antagonistic in public, and with the stallion beside her now, bigger then both of then, she feared the losing control of the situation. Particularly when she was between the two. Although Hades didn't seem the type to attack a mare, how could she tell? "And my mother Teheki."
Teheki scoffed. "You can relax, brute. You've my daughter's grace, don't you? But I like to know who is on our land all the same."
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Post by xxhadesxx on Jan 6, 2011 19:24:58 GMT -5
The obsidian stallion relaxed his stance, as he moved his cranium to look at the other mare, he grunted. "Nice to meet you.. Teheki.." The stallion grunted as he lowered his head to the creek. |
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Post by Crow'sia on Jan 6, 2011 19:32:16 GMT -5
Gertrude, Teheki
"A pleasure," came the caustic reply. Gertrude balked. Never had Teheki been so openly vitriolic. While he drank, the two mares exchanged glances, Gertrude trying to read her mother's intention, and Teheki, well, she couldn't be sure. It came as a shock, the, that her mother said, "Are you going to get on and invite him to be your lead, then?"
"What?"
"My, what did I give birth to!" Teheki rounded on the stallion with such force, Gertrude actually had wondered if she attack him. Instead, she kept a polite distance. "Would you stay with my daughter? Lead us with her?"
And all Gertrude could do was ogle, because this was Teheki, who had driven all other stallions out, who had adamantly lamented her daughter's brief relationship with the giant Nikolai. Teheki, who was still terribly scarred by her encounter with the stallion of Sunfall, and on cold days now limped. Perhaps, the younger mare thought, she was just getting old, all her plans and cunning amounting to nothing in the face of decay.
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Post by xxhadesxx on Jan 6, 2011 19:41:58 GMT -5
Hades lifted his cranium, glancing back and forth at both mares, he backed away a little. Lowering his cranium, his orbs still on both mares but mostly focusing on Gertrude. he slowly replied "I would say yes, but yet you don't know me, you don't even know what I am like, why would you ask a stranger like myself such a question without actually knowing who I am..?" |
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Post by Crow'sia on Jan 8, 2011 0:10:32 GMT -5
Gertrude, Teheki
"Then stay and defend us," Teheki said. "Times have been hard, did my daughter tell you? We ask a stranger out of need." But she wasn't watching the stallion, instead her eyes remained solely on her daughter, so that for this afternoon, Gertrude was like the center of the Earth, the pale face of the moon on one side, and the sun on the other.
Gertrude, awkward with the attention, not yet come of age with her own role, nodded slowly, trying to take in this quick change. Had she not been thinking to rashly offer the same? That it had come from Teheki had been surprising, but it changed nothing.
"You could stay with us either way. Hades. Live in the Fields. Food and shelter, like I said."
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Post by xxhadesxx on Jan 8, 2011 0:16:05 GMT -5
The obsidian stallion glanced back and forth, before moving forward.Rubbing his cranium against Gertrudes side he murmured "I would like to be your mate..., but only if you will let me.." He kept his ice blue orbs on hers |
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Post by Crow'sia on Jan 8, 2011 0:43:28 GMT -5
Gertrude, Teheki
Gertrude froze. All the muscles in her body, the blood she thought rather romantically, her stomach (rather less romantically), her mind, her breath, her heart, became still a moment and then roared to life, all so loud the mare feared the others would hear. Feared her mother, who was so very critical and sharp. Feared this stranger, so much taller than her, so unknown. She looked at the scar on his face, wondering how that had happened.
"Will you give me a moon, to know you?" she asked carefully. Her tongue was thick in her mouth, and Gertrude fumbled over the words. "Stay with me till the moon is dark, and I will tell you what I decide?"
On her other side, Teheki's hiss tickled her ears. "Gertrude, you're a fool of filly!" Gertrude's hind legs flew up towards her mother, who backed off sharply, and the young mare soared over the river, not quite as gracefully, her feet spraying water and rocks in an arch as she landed.
"I am the lead of the Fields, Teheki. In case you forget what you made me!" she growled with a menacing flick of her hooves, although the creek kept mother and daughter apart. "You are a conniving witch! I know to think before I listen to your advice!" Her ears were flat against her skull and the young mare was breathing heavily. Too heavily. She'd have to get control of herself before she fell over from a lack of air. She found Hades eyes in the dark of his face, forced herself to look straight into them. "I am sorry, Hades, but I need a moon. Just one."
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Post by xxhadesxx on Jan 8, 2011 0:47:28 GMT -5
His heart shattered into a thousand pieces, as her reply repeated in his mind. Than he got the courage and moved his cranium to face her, slowly he nodded as he went back to looking at the ground. |
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Post by Crow'sia on Jan 8, 2011 1:18:25 GMT -5
Gertrude, Teheki
On the other side of the river Teheki was practically fuming. She looked at Hades and saw in him years of carefully laid plans destroyed by his sudden appearance and the whims of her daughter. Could she salvage them, evolve them? Was this one effort enough? She made a small, sharp sound in her throat and plunged through the water.
"I'd curse your blood, were it not my own. You are your father," Teheki growled as she walked. Loud enough that Hades would hear, but what did it matter, when he was a stranger in a dying place.
"Good."
"Watch yourself, daughter, for I'll watch you." Her hooves left the cool touch of water, and Teheki's muscles bunched under her skin. Silently, she slipped into the tall grass, and without so much as a glance back walked away.
For a long time Gertrude watched the receding back of her mother, and the down turned face of Hades, wondering for all the world what she would do. She crossed the creek again, quiet and thoughtful, and nudged the stallion in the shoulder timidly.
"Have I upset you so much?"
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