The Mystic Stables
THE COPSE - UNDERCOPSE
The fusia vines surround you again as you move into another thick area of rejuvenated copse. Comet follows a bit behind you, nudging you every now and then, until you reach an open area ringed in fusuia grasses and purple flowers that make the air perfumed with their scent. Comet stops to smell a flower, grins mysteriously and slightly like a mischevious imp, and then leaves you to your own resources. You are wondering why she would bring you and leave you here in the middle of an empty, if lovely, copse, when a violent rustling of the trees above your head startles you. You nearly end up on your rump when a small flash of grey ZINGS! over your head in an uncontrolled wad of feathers and prompty smashes into a tree at the other end of the copse....
You run over to make sure the pegasus is allright and find the smallish stallion unharmed, shaking off the hit as if it was a common occurance. You are a little stunned and the pegasus looks at you funny. "Huh? Who are you? Why do you look at me that way...all is well...just a tree. I hit trees ALL the time and don't really feel it much anymore...." He shakes out his wings, stretching them and about to take off again when he shakes his head, just seeming to realize that you are, indeed, still there. He looks at you again, head cocked to the side and ears forward while you introduce yourself.
He quickly screws himself up into an equine form of 'attention' and bows his head, introducing himself as Zfana'Lemad, or Searing Winds, but everyone calls him Zefy. You giggle at the nickname and he looks at you funny again, like you were a really odd-looking insect. He goes on to say that he came here only a few season ago and Comet looked after him because they are of the same Realm. Tenatively you ask if he's still 'all there' from hitting the trees so many times. He laughs and smiles at you. "Forest says that hitting trees doesn't kill me, so it makes me stronger! I agree.....how else could I learn to fly in a forest without hitting in the trees now and then? I guess it just caried over into adulthood...it's a habit, you could say." You agree that it makes sense, in a very strange sort of way.
Zefy puters around a bit more, preening a loose feather out of his wings and complaining about molting and itching. He begins to trot down a little side path that you'd never seen before, still muttering, when he again realizes you haven't left yet and turns about, staring at you. "Wanna come?"
Come where, exactly, you ask.
"To the beach! The Beach! I'm an Oranian Pegasus, so I need to go to beach now and then! See the path?" he points a hoof down the pathway he was about to take and now you can see that it does lead out of the cavern into a light place where you can see sand and rocks. Indeed, a private beach! "I love the sea because my mother, she used to take me to the beach and pour the water over me. It was not as warm as it is here, but it was nice! Come, come! To the Beach!"
You can see the little stallion's desire to be outside in the waves and can picture him racing the crests to the shore with his enthusiastic love of flight, but you politely refuse, citing the need to keep moving if you want to see all the the Hold has to offer! He nods and turns his tail, bolting down the narrow path and through the small rock archway onto the sand, kicking the dusty mix back into the pathway in his haste and leaving you grinning ear to ear in his wake....
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NAME: Zfana'Lemad MEANING: Searing Winds SHORTENED: 'Lemad, Zefy AGE: Adult GENDER: Male SPECIES: Equine TYPE: Oranian Pegasus THYME: Water SIRE: Kisho DAME: Tro'leme MATE: None OFFSPRING: None ORIGIN: Oranian Shores |
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You move after a bit of listening to the seemingly far-off sounds of waves and wind that every now and then bring you a bit of 'Lemad's laughter, stumbling back along the path to the Flames' Clearing, or moving onward through the sparse undergrowth toward Another Section of the UnderCopse, still pondering your future, the forest's, and that of the interesting and reckless youth that you've just had the pleasure of meeting. Or you could opt to head out of the Copse all together and explore more of the Mystic Stables.....
Though you can see almost nothing through the thick foliage, you remember the directions from your journey through the Mystic Meadows. Onward to the NorthWest is the verdant and shining green of the many Sha Fields, while going back out the way you came will take you back toward the Equaritha Fields.....
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