Bright eyes & subtle variations of blue

[blackcatluvr]

ooc: the title doesn't mean anything, it's just a lyric I like.


bic:

Elodie heard swift water somewhere below her. Carefully she made her way down the incline to the ground. She tilted her copper auds to concentrate on where she had heard the water.
She thought to herself, Water would be good right about now, I'm parched.

She smelled the fresh rain that had left everything glistening. It had rained not even ten minutes before she had gotten to this new place. Rain was rare for this time of year, but fires were plentiful. Rain had been needed.

Elodie's chestnut coat gleamed healthily in the summer sun. She had been wandering the countryside by herself for about 5 days now, after being kicked out of her previous herd by the jealous mares.

Why they had been jealous, Elodie knew not. It wasn't like she was a sight to behold.
Sure, she may've not have had as many scars as the others, but that was only because she knew how to avoid situations to give her scars. She was also much more articulate than some she had met, because her mother taught her before she was taken away.

Elodie came to a river.
Ah! So here is the source of the sound!

She put her muzzle down to the water and took a few lond draughts of it before looking up, and smelling the air for anything that could possibly pose a threat to her.

Not smelling, seeing, or hearing anything unusual, she shook her mane and took another drink from the clear water.

The rocks in the water were worn smooth from time. The water sparkled.

This is a nice place. I may stay here for a little while. It seems safe. Other horses have traversed this area, I smell them. Elodie told herself.



ooc: my cat....is weird. lol. randomness! yay! hehe

[clownfish]

OOC: nice! and yes, very random

Demonio trotted into the place he had heard of was called Sunshine River. He heard some water splashing in the river not to far away. Demonio lifted his head to smell for predators or any horses. He suddenly caught on the scent of a mare. Just what he needed! What if this was Rhiannon, the mare he had been looking for for so long? But then his hopes went down when he sniffed again and didn't smell any sign of a colt. He sighed but didn't lose all hope. Demonio quickly trotted over to the river, got a quick drink, and then continued trotting upstream where the smell came from. To his outmost disappointment, instead of Rhiannon, he saw another mare. Just another plain old mare. Most stallions would get excited about this because a mare is a mare, and they are the most precious thing in the stallion's world. But Demonio couldn't hide his disappointment. There was too much of it to hide. He sighed. But a mare was a mare, and he couldn't just let a chance like that slip. After all, he wouldn't mind having a few more mares once he found Rhiannon. So he casually walked up to the mare and said in his velvety voice." Hello there. I am Demonio. What might your name be?"

[blackcatluvr]

ooc: lol, yeppers!

Elodie wasn't focused on her surroundings and didn't hear the other horse walk up to her.
She jumped when she heard the horse's voice. Elodie turned around and realized it was a stallion. He looked disappointed about something, and Elodie, being the curious creature she was, wondered why.
"Hello, Demonio. I am Elodie. How are you this lovely summer afternoon?"
Elodie was on her guard. She didn't fully trust stallions, especially lone ones. She was tense and ready to flee if she found him untrustworthy or dangerous to her well-being.

[clownfish]

Demonio studied the mare from her forelock down to her hoofs. He could see she wasn't very comfortable with a stallion around that she didn't know, but Demonio could get this mare warmed up to him easily. " Hello, Elodie. I am doing fine. Well... actually, not really.... but good enough. And how might you be?" Demonio looked around and behind the mare. He didn't see anything but water, grass, and a few tree's. " Are you alone, Elodie?" While he waited for the mare's answer, he shook his thick mane and kneeled down to scratch his strong, buckskin leg. Demonio flicked a fly off his ear with just a flick, and then settled down and looked back at the Elodie. She was a very beautiful mare indeed, but she was the type who wasn't just going to fall into the hands of any stallion. It would take some luck to get her into Demonio's herd.

[blackcatluvr]

Elodie shifted uncomfortably when she noticed Demonio studying her. She wasn't used to stallions studying her from forelock to hoof like he did.
"Why are you not doing so well, Demonio? If you don't mind me asking, that is..." Elodie watched as he looked around her.
"Yes, I am alone. I've been alone for about 5 days, after being kicked out of the herd I was in. The lead mare had gotten jealous for some reason, as if I was a threat."
Elodie thought for a moment. Actually, I have been alone for 4 1/2 summers now. I was sold to a man when I was 1 1/2, and that was the beginning. I never saw my family again. And I've never had a foal, never really wanted one, or needed one for that matter. Being kicked out of all the herds I've been in wouldn't have been good for a foal. Also, I never stay in one herd for too long, not long enough to form many friends that would leave the ones they've known for years for one they'd known for only 7 moons or so. So, yes, I'm alone, and have been for some time now. Are you alone, or do you have a herd somewhere?"

[clownfish]

Demonio stopped studying Elodie when he saw that she was very uncomfortable. He looked out over the blue, clear river instead. " No Elodie, I don't mind you asking. You see, I was not much of a stallion before, and I am not much of a stallion now. But I once covered a mare, a beautiful mare named Rhiannon. Two years later I found out that a colt had been born unto Rhiannon. It was my colt. I went looking for the colt and heard that he was in Sunshine River. Well, now I am here and looking for them still. When I came to the river, I smelled you and thought for a second you were Rhiannon. I saw you, Elodie, and I was so disappointed. I am sorry for not hiding it, but there was too much disappointment. And now I am alone, a bachelor stallion." Demonio looked down at the ground, feeling ashamed.

[blackcatluvr]

Elodie listened to Demonio's story.
"Well, I could try to help you find her, if she and the colt really mean that much to you. I shouldn't be out here alone, anyways. The wilderness can be a very dangerous place for a lone mare, or lone stallion for that matter, if they don't know how to defend themselves properly."
Elodie shifted her weight, waiting for his reply, but thought of something.
"Why did you leave....Rhiannon, if you covered her? Did you not think she would concieve a foal?"
Elodie looked at the river, which was fairly peaceful, and felt a little jealousy for the mares with foals. She had never had a foal, too dangerous to have one, just wandering around like she did. And now that she thought about it, she never really had a family, either. After all, she was taken away from her family when she was young, too young to form a lasting relationship with her mother anyhow.
"Also, Demonio, why didn't you stay with her? You could've had a chance at having a family. Many would love that. But, like me, we don't have the chance."

[clownfish]

Demonio thought about that question for a while. Very embarassed, he said," Well.... you see..... Rhiannon and me weren't getting along. She insisted on going back to her original herd here in Sunshine River, or near here, anyway. I followed her, but wasn't welcome in the herd. I always tried to sneak in. That is one reason why I have these scars. The other scars are from battles over mares, but that dosen't matter. Well Elodie. That is why I didn't stay with Rhiannon. I couldn't fight off the stallion that Rhiannon was with. I am just a lowlife stallion, not a champion fighter. I tried many times, but every time I failed. That is why, that is why I lost Rhiannon."

[blackcatluvr]

Elodie could tell that Demonio was embarrassed by what he was going to tell her.
Elodie listened intently to what he had to say before responding, "Why weren't you welcome into the herd? I understand many herds wouldn't welcome a stallion willingly, because the lead stallion may think him a threat, but Rhiannon was with you. I would think that that would be good enough. But, who am I to know? I didn't grow up in the wilderness, I grew up with man, and their noisy machines. When I fell out of that horse trailer, I had no clue as to what happened in the wild, with the mustangs I'd heard my mother talk about." Elodie hadn't noticed the scars until he said something about them. She looked them over. Now that she noticed, he did have quite a few. "You're not a lowlife stallion Demonio, you just weren't strong enough to fight off the other stallion. If anyone should be embarassed, it should be Rhiannon. She didn't try to stay with you, although she knew she was most likely carrying your foal. And now, her foal will most likely never know his real father, because she didn't stand up for herself.....or, is it wrong for a mare to stand up for herself in the wild, and just be submissive and go to whichever stallion wins a fight over her? Does love not count for anything in the wild?"
Elodie was angry as she said those words. Angry at this Rhiannon, for not standing up for herself and staying with Demonio. Elodie thought that if this Rhiannon mare had truly cared for Demonio, she would have had stayed with him, instead of letting the other stallion simply take her away.

[clownfish]

Out of all the things that had surprised Demonio, this was ranking right up at the top. " Elodie, your blaming Rhiannon instead of me? Why, your the first horse who has done that. Every other horse I have told this story to said I should be very ashamed and embarassed because a stallion's job is to care for and protect the mares from danger. Every other horse said I should have kept her and tried to work things out. I tell them I tried to work things out, but either Rhiannon didn't really like me, she liked the other stallion better, she wanted to see me get hurt, or I didn't try hard enough. That is most likely the answer. I probaly didn't try hard enough." The hope Demonio had gotten from Elodie had now totally faded, probaly never to come back again.

[blackcatluvr]

"Well, I think if she cared enough for you, she would've fought to stay with you. You probably tried your hardest, she just didn't care for you enough."
Elodie thought for a moment before speaking.
"So Demonio, where will you go after this? Will you try to get Rhiannon and your colt back? Or will you go elsewhere? I'd like to come with you. You seem....trustworthy enough, and not a threat to my well-being." Elodie continued after she sighed, "Unless, you wouldn't like a companion to come with you. I wouldn't be much trouble. I....sort of know how to fend for myself."
Elodie hoped he would say that she could come with him to....wherever he would be going. She was getting awfully tired of jumping from horse herd to horse herd, and wandering alone by herself. This gave her an idea.
"Or, if you wouldn't mind.....we could make our own herd, and try to get some horses to join or...something. Because I'm tired of jumping from herd to herd, never having a permanent place to call home. Don't you get tired of wandering around without a herd?"

[clownfish]

Demonio sighed at the thought of never seeing Rhiannon again. Then he looked up at Elodie. She had just offered to make a herd! Usually the stallion asked that, but Demonio was overjoyed anyways. He would finally have a mare who would listen to him and didn't blame him for what had happened to Rhiannon and the colt. " Yes Elodie, that would be wonderful. I would love to make our own herd. You can trust me, I would never hurt you." The Mustang sighed. " I am getting very tired of being along and a bachelor." Then Demonio perked up. " Well, it is your choice where we go. We could go claim a territory or we could go looking for some mares for you to gossip with and chat with while I am tending the territory." Demonio nuzzled the Canadian Horse. He was so happy to have a family at last.

[blackcatluvr]

Elodie knew it was normally the stallion that offered to start a herd, but she was tired of being alone. So, she had offered. And he said yes! Elodie was overjoyed at the idea of having a place she could possibly call home, permanently, and a family.
"I'm glad I can trust you, Demonio. You're probably one of the only horses I've met that I can fully trust." Elodie gazed around the area they were in. "Well, where is there to go? This is the first place I've been to, so I don't know where any other place is. As for the mares, I'm sure I can make some friends. I'd like friends. That may be an idea for me. But first, we must find a territory. Do you know of any?"
Elodie nuzzled the buckskin mustang after he nuzzled her. She was estatic. She smiled happilyas she thought, Now, I'll finally have a home and a family, somewhere I belong.


ooc:soo...I looked at the territories. Seems all of them are taken up. The only one I can think of would be in Wild Horse Valley, because Eclipse doesn't really...have a herd, it's only him...think Demonio could fight him and try to win that territory? The other herd there is the one with Almosa, Bindaree, and Zania, my other charrie.

[clownfish]

OOC: ya, Demonio could try fighting Eclipse. So do u want to start the post?

[blackcatluvr]

OOC: Okie dokie. *off to WHV*

[manda]

CF, Rhiannon didn't love Demonio, and he didn't love her. She was a low ranked mare and he forcebred her. He came looking for them so that he could control Rhiannon and so that he could see his colt and have him as an heir.

[clownfish]

I know I just made up a different ending because it sounds kind of weird for Demonio to say to Elodie that he forcebred her and stuff. Swede said I should make up a different ending.