The Mystic Stables
SHA MEADOWS - FLOWERBED
"EEEEEEEEEK!"
Three tiny squeaks turn into much louder screams as you kneel beside the flowerbed. You stare into the flowers, unable to locate who or whatever you just frightened. The petals are outlined in bold colors against the obsidian rock and the purple grass. All the stalks waze in the wind...except one. One stalk is quivering, like a very thin creature on a cold day. Looking closer.....
"EEEE!" Again one of the tiny creature screams as your face comes into view. So tiny...so small. The delicate thing that seems to be a pixie-pony is shrieking its lungs out, obviously afraid to the point of hysterics. Scared you will give it a heart attack, you move a hand toward it and cup the little creature, no longer than half of a human finger, in your warm palm. The sreaming stops and you sign with relief, but keep the little pony covered in your hands for a few more moments. Then slowly you open your hands....and are biten!!! The second little pony, a vicious blue stallion, has bitten you! And again! Now a third little pixie-pony, a second mare and before unseen, has come in to assault your fingertip with sharp tiny teeth!
Lying on you palm, wings folded and staring at you, the first tiny mare still seems afraid, but manages to chitter at the other two until they let go of you.... "We're not ponies!" You jump at the tiny not-a-pony's harsh rebuke. You ask politely if the little one is telepathic. "NO." it answers. "You were mouthing 'odd little ponie' the whole time that I stared at you." You tell the odd creature that perhaps it should not have been staring. All it does is smile. You remark on tiny, vulnerable creatures with attitude problems. All you get is a sneeze in reply. The little blue has fluttered onto your palm and is nuzzling the cream-colored female. The second mare, bright in her autumny colors, is flitting about your head at break-neck speed.....
Seeming to reset itself, the little creature explains.... "I am Wieyr, a female SHAENEL, NOT a pony! And this little troublemaker is my companion, NOT my mate, Dieln." The little blue makes a show of bowing deeply and showing his teeth. "Currently spinning around your face is LeafEmber, the second mare and most recent adition to this meadow. Shaenels are closely related to the much more pony-like Crenels. We are a little larger, and we have wings." She seems very proud of that fact, waving her pink pixie wings in the slight breeze, then taking up with a flutter to hover in front of your face, Dieln following quietly, doing flips and showing off. "There are all kinds of Shaenels in our species...all sorts of different wings! I am one of the first of my kind, offered a chance to bond before many of my brothers and sisters...and so I came here! Dieln here followed later, then Leaf Ember very recently. This place leaves little to be desired. The flowers are lovely, and their nectar is very sweet. But all Shaenels get a little bored sometimes. You see, we have a flaw in the mentality of our entire race....we cannot think of anything funny. That is why we spend so much time with Crenels...they are VERY fun companions! Right now, though, the closest companions I have here are Dieln, 'Ember and Shilishmyst over there...Dieln is SUCH a show-off adn Leaf is on big ball of energy, and SHil' is FAR too serious. I think they may be flawed as well. But things are not always so dull. Every so often, our bondmate Azrielen comes done to see us, and then we have a great time! I think I'll go find her and see how she fairs. Adios, traveler...and don't forget to wash behind you ears!" As quickely and oddly as the little ones came into your life, they are gone, flitting away through the flowers and out into the sunlight.....
| Your attention taken away from the odd little flits you notice something like a stone shining by the base of the stone. Movig the flowers delicately aside, you see that it's a little statue! It may be tiny, but it is still larger thatn your former companions, though it seems to be a figurine of the same type of creature. At the base it a little sign that you squint to read, smiling at the amzing craftsmenship of the Shaenel statuette before replacing it at the base of the boulder... |  |
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Again alone, you can reenter Shilishmyst's Meadow, move a bit more around the boulder to see more of the Sha Meadows, or you can continue on to the places beyond, wherever you heart may lead.....
The land becomes craggy in a giant mountain-wall within the cavern directly to the East, marking the beginning of the Leaper Leys...while behind you the purpled leaves of the Copse hides their mysteries within.....
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