Post by stormbringer on Feb 25, 2008 18:40:00 GMT -5
[Incandescent] STARLiGHT
our hopes and EXPECTATiONS
our hopes and EXPECTATiONS
Starlight refuses to stop, always shining in the darkest depths of the night. Anger, hatred, war, betrayal, they do not affect stars. The light of the pinpricks of celestial light is… Incandescent. It never ends. Like the love a young dapple gray had for her dying brother. The hope she pointed out in the stars, and her name that became of it, Incandescent Starlight. Now, around seven years later, she’s in her prime. And she’s here.
Star galloped. She could feel the air against her face, but it did little to cool her. The air was stifling and hotter than anything she’d ever encountered before. She was quite resigned to the fact that she’d probably never go back to the herd of Eerie Silence, her old King, who had gotten the gorgeous dapple in a trade with her birth herd. Silence’s herd had a unique system, dividing slaves into two categories, mares who had foals with Eerie Silence, mares who had yet to have them with him. Mothers and Daughters, and the test, the test of your foal bearing abilities and genetics came from the bachelors, the equivalent of free roamers, a group of stallions calling themselves the Phantom Roamers. Her son and her true love, Chinook, ran with the Phantoms, and she did miss them, but in a betrayal, Starlight had been stolen and sold by her original herd’s King, and when the Phantom Roamers had come looking for her, the sniveling ‘King’ that had ruled her just before had dropped her here and ran, like the coward he was. The mare was quite certain that she’d never see her son or any of the Roamers again, and she simply decided to make the best of it. Incandescent Starlight always made the best of it. And so she stood. It was impossible to show them she was a fantastic breeder, producing foals that an elite bloodline was being built on, somewhere far away in the headlands where the herd she’d called home was. She’d been there for almost six years and given them six foals, who had in turn (at count when she’d left) given the herd a total of five new foals, all of whom their King found pleasingly beautiful, and strong. Several of her kin ran with the Roamers, and several of her daughters were rearing foals of their own. She wasn’t concerned about her newborn colt very much, since her eldest daughter’s foal had recently died, and her milk continued to run. Really, easygoing Starlight wasn’t worried at all, though she’d have liked to say goodbye to her sons, daughters, grandchildren, her mate, her King… So many needed closure, but she had a sneaking suspicion that they’d be taking the lands of the stallion who stole her, and that would teach him. Only Eerie Silence’s children ran with the Phantom Roamers, so her old King would probably be killed. Served him right!
But now, the hardy, elegant mare had a bright new future. She wasn’t tall, but her legs were long, slim, and her chest was deep but slim, giving her a delicate but tall appearance, though she was stronger than her physique led others to believe. Her real strength lay in her endurance and stamina, though she was not slow, or weak, but speed and strength were not her strongest traits. Her coat was a nice shade of steely blue gray and covered in dapples that went from a silver tinged ivory on the outer edges to brilliant white in the centers, and were smaller on her still-gray face. Her mane was long, perhaps slightly off white, and prismatic, with a tail to match. Beneath the sun as it sat at is zenith rainbows rippled along its length, which was quite a long length.
Her silken banner dropped near the ground and she moved into her floating trot, trying to catch the eye of any stallion, or perhaps a mare, that sought someone new to keep. Though she was still wrapping her mind around the concept of being a ‘slave’ (that word had never been used in her past) she was willing to serve someone. Actually, she needed to serve someone. She wasn’t sure what she’d do if left to her own devices.
The advice of an older mare still resounded in her head, respect female rulers, too, but Starlight really needed a male Master, someone she could look up to with an almost father-like quality. You see, this was how she was raised, respect first you King, then your father, then anyone else. She wasn’t sure how these rules would work with a Queen, first respect you Queen, then your mother? Or then your father? This kind of thing mattered to her. She had and almost childish mind, because she needed to know these things. Though smart, and somewhat reserved, she was not depressed but really rather bubbly around those she really knew. She liked to know the answers to questions and had been known to walk up to complete strangers to ask for the answers. She was inquisitive, but probably one of the hardest workers one will encounter. Overall a pleasing specimen, who would probably benefit from a male ruler who knows exactly how to tell her what to do.
black holes and REVELATiONS
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