Along the Path

The shell in your pocket and curiosity on your mind, you follow the small furrow the white rabbit left in the grass, wondering if you should be wandering off the path like this. Only a few minutes pass before you are far from the trail, the rabbit's furrow your only guide and the trees beginning to thicken. The sounds of nature seem softer now that the path's emptiness isn't there to amplify them, but you're more aware of them: the swish of leaves and grass, the sound of bird's wings, the cry of a fox in the small forest off to your left....

...and the sound of footsteps moving through the trees. Fingering the shell and wondering if it can keep you as safe from predators as it did Snowy the rabbit, you press yourself to a tree and keep an eye out for whatever is wandering near.

"You might as well come out, traveler," comes a laughing voice, "I scented you three minutes ago."

The creature waiting for you when you peer around the tree trunk is burnished gold with a strange mixture of traits. Her head appears canine, with odd furry ears, crimson eyes and a white horn growing between them. Her forelegs appear draconic, as they are clawed, but from about two-thirds of the way up are black and shaggy. Her hindlegs are equine, cloven-hoofed; her tail is short with a black and white foxish tip, and her mane a fiery red. Seven orangish swirls run down the sides of her neck and curl just in front of her gold-feathered wings.
"Come on," she calls, coaxong. "I won't hurt you."
You step out, keeping a hand on the tree, and the creature grins.
"Lost, huh? I'm Sunlight Shading. C'mon, there's a game trail nearby, you can find your way to the main path from there." She smirks, grins, and trots off into the trees.

You stumble over a root and then run to catch up with her. Shading grins over her shoulder and stretches out her wings.
"So where're you headed?"
You tell her you're just wandering. She pouts a little.
"Aww, no destination in mind? I could hop you over to one of the nearer areas. Not as far as Sandshores, hoh no, but Talon's Roost or the Dark, maybe even Roamer Grasslands. I can definately make the Sweetwater, and Rio can take you to the Chakaani, or even Underwave."
You stare at her for a moment, forgetting to keep pace, then walk quickly to catch up.
"Hop me over?" you say, a little suspicious.
"Fly you, of course," laughs Shading. "I'm not as strong as the dragons, so I can't carry you too far, but we're pretty much in the center of the Meadows... which is in the center of the realm, just about. So a short hop is easy."

Well, traveler? Are you going to take her up on her offer, and be 'hopped' to the Dark, Talon's Roost, or maybe Roamer Grasslands? Or are you prone to vertigo and would rather she just showed you to the path? Or, you can always try to forge your own path - there can't be anything too mean in Remember Meadows, right?....

Name	Sunlight Shading
Gender	Female
Type	Whorling (Ultimate Fusion)
'Parent' Whorlings	FyreRayne & Rah'na'mih'sk
Origin	The Everrealm

Tárakyna (C) me, Jessica Dragontamer. Compass rose (C) Lessa Lynn. Critters (C) their respective creators. Background courtesy of ABTA.