Mystic Stables
LEAPER LEYS
The once grassy ground becomes a bed of gravel as you approach a rocky mountain in the middle of the cavern. The gigantic stone structure is not a wall, as you can pass around it to the East and West, but it is more like a huge stalagmite, ramming upward through the cavern cieling, a mountain-wall not extending straight up, smoothly as you may expect, but cragy and sloped, like the side of a cliff, pocked by many rockslides and years of weathering. The crags and rocks of this Ley are dotted with animals, which you recognized as being from Leaper Peak, a well-known adoption search. The mistress of these pets must have searched long and hard for them......
"And she did!" A small, but loud, eccoing voice sounds from the rocks above you. A thin, light creature of deep blue turns a sharp corner around a stalagmite, coming into veiw. It's mane seems to blaze like fire, a complete opposite of the watery blue of its fur. "I am Aquen~pyre, the only shiretal in these lands as of now. If you are wondering abut back there, how I answered you...I am a rather talented psychic as well." The little creature smiles. "Come, I will show you around our home....but watch you step! This land is fools of hidden crevices and such dangers as that!"
A deep crimson creature come into view, and the little Shiretal bows to it. You do the same, careful not to loose you balance in the steep cliff. The large animals wuffles and throws its purple, streaked mane, sharp onyx horns piercing the air. "Roho'Menwen here is a Mouga of few words..." Aquen~pyre gives a wry smile and motions with one cloven hoof. "Let us go see Roho's mate. She is the brains of the outfit!" Winking, Aquen~pyre leeds you a little ways up the steep incline to where another Mouga is drawing complex desings in the gravel....
The animal you see is striking. As she turns, her silver stripes and mane shine in the reflecting sunlight that permeates the entire cavern. Aquen~pyre bows even deeper to her, showing his amazing respect for her. The sea green mare turn her eyes to you and you become hypnotized. They are a pure white....and they glow! Like a heartbeat that begin to pulse until the glowing stays and she smiles. Moving with delicate grace, the female Mouga moves closer to you, her blue horns decorating her lovely head in a perfect crown. "I am the Mouga Kaysha'Danay. You've met my mate, Roho...I saw you TRY to speak to him...." Her voice is slightly condescending, but still containing the love she obviously feels for the other Mouga. I am the eldest of the Mouga here, and a seer. See the design in the gravel there?" She points a hoof at the large pictogram she was drawing when you first saw her. "That is a seeing glyph. It is very large and complicated and, unfortunately, nowhere near done. When it is, it will allow me to almost double my powers of clarvoyance and Finding, as well as Future-scanning and Predicting! Please, Aquen, I ask you to go now...I must finish before the seasons turn again, and it is only a quarter done. Thank you for bringing me that lovely visitor." She kisses that little Shiretal on the forehead and he blushes.
Come along, travelor, we must go. Leave her to her work." Down the rocky natural stairsteps you go, following Aquen closely. As you move down the treacherous slope, lined as it is with gravel and sand, you spot two more animals off to the side. Aquen soon notices the you've stopped, and rejoins you, also looking at the two new animals. "These are the Xenexus," he explains casually. They are powerful creatures wih a strong natural aura.= that is tangible if you near them. But they also have very violent tempers, so nearing them is not always a good idea...." Aquen smiles wrily as he points out a small pink female....
That one there, the female, is Su'Mes-onwi El'Shea, a Xenexus very strong in the natural healing of plants. It is sadi that she can make ting grow just by thinking they already have. Her mate is right there..." He points out another Xenexus trudging up the hill toward Su'Mes', a dark green and blue creature...
"He is Vex'Espian El'Shea. He came to this Ley after Su'Mes' did, and it was love at first sight." Aquen's eyes sparkle with memories of the couple's first meeting. "Su'Mes' was attempting with all her might to make a Faschasha blossom plant grow out of the pure rock ground around here, and failing, becoming more miserable by the second. But then, out of nowhere, Vex' arrived and boosted her aura. The plant still grows today...you can see it ther, just over the hill." And indeed, you can. The fuzzy-looking blossom almost glow golden against the dull gray rock and you can smell as sweet sroma every time the breeze blows from that direction. "But come now, wanderer, we must go, at least from this section of the Leys...there is another, but you'll have to find a new guide...." You continue you progress down the mountainside for several more minutes. Once at the bottom, Aquen~pyre bids you a quick farewell and a promise that six more Leaper creature will occupy this space at some point soon, a Hirari and a Kliratal, as well as one of a new breed which Azrielen herself named, called a Solsolkitie! Also, a special Gintu and a Feafox, who should live in the Kennels, but has demanded to be placed here with his Leaper brothers and sisters. Also a Mosratal will be here, an creature that looks like a Wris'Latora - a biting horse that Az also hope to have one of soon! "Oh so many newcomers!" Aquen exclaims in hopefully mock dismay, before scampering back up the hill to speak with the Xenexus once again.
You are left alone with a choice. Standing in waving grass at the mountain's base once more, you look once more over your shoulder at the meadows beyond. Do you walk around the mountain to a second section of the Leaper Leys, or do you think better of it and move on....
You could move West toward the Sha Meadows or East to the Miscellania Meadows. To the South, the grass turns silvery at the start of the Silver Meadows. The Leanser Knoll lies SouthEast, surrounded in tall shrubs. To the SouthWest lay the Equaritha Hills. Oppositely, to the NorthEast lies an copse of violet and green in the Leaper Leys, and in the distant NorthWest. a wall of obscuring mists stand. Directly to the North, around the craggy mountain-wall, are the rolling fields of the Unicorn Meadows, home of the Unicorn Friends.....
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