RIGEL

SHOW ME WHAT LOVE IS

Perhaps he was a little too innocent for the world, bearing silvery marks under rose gold and pink, but that didn't stop Rigel from wandering in to open areas as he usually would. Didn't stop him from leaving the borders of Delumine to make his way through the Eluetheria Plain and feel the long grasses tickle at his belly from such a short stature that he stood at.

He wandered with long legs, and came to a pause, tilting his horned head as he saw the figures in the distance, the motions of others that were too far to make details out of the face. Part of him wanted to join, but part of him remained a little wary at least, some sort of little self preservation. It wasn't long that the group moved, kicking up soft clouds of dust behind them in the heat of the day, and Rigel drew in a breath before letting it out, small shoulders slumping and his body even giving a small slump.

He felt alone, very much so, even as his head leaned back and his pale eyes caught the sight of the birds above. Those that he used to share a connection with, no longer since he had left his homeland behind. He had lost all of his ability, and it felt like some piece of him was missing and gone, a chunk that he could no longer find, or fill. A void, an ache.

The Delumine caretaker sighed, and instead dropped his head to nibble at the grasses gently, plucking at them and blinking as he did, finding that he was losing himself in his thoughts.

RIGEL

SHOW ME WHAT LOVE IS

The words were surprising, enough to cause the kirin to lift his head, blinking several times as his head came up. Rigel shifted himself a little, and he curled his shoulders just slightly, allowing his pale gaze to flicker and move. Finally, he caught sight of something, someone rather, and he made a soft sound under his breath, a little shocked at the sudden sight of the head and neck. Eyes went wide as he lifted himself up, standing at his whole height of thirteen some odd hands. It wasn't impressive, really, but it was still something.

"I can't talk to the animals anymore. They don't hear me. Ever... ever since I came here, there's no one to listen, and the animals run in fear." His ears went down, feeling the pang of icy sadness. Growing up, he'd talked to animals, cared for them, and grew flowers and plants. He could still do the latter, but the animals still caused his heart to ache now that he couldn't hear their little voices anymore.

Slowly, he inched himself toward the other, wary, pausing again and lifting a hoof, simply holding it there in the air. "Are you... are you a horse?" He looked strange, whoever he was, with his head stretching up over a bunch of shrubs and brush, their colors fading with the change of the seasons.

RIGEL

SHOW ME WHAT LOVE IS

Honestly he was.. startled. Never before had Rigel seen someone so shaggy coated, more fur and hair than he'd seen on anyone. What was more, was the other wasn't that much taller than him, certainly a rarity for the small kirin. His eyes brightened up somewhat upon seeing how the stranger was a little bit bigger than him, with a more rugged look than his own smooth features.

"Maybe... I've been so.. used to just speaking with them. But when I left my homeland a few years ago, once I got out of the borders, their voices went silent and they fled. I thought perhaps that would change here." It was clearly something that bothered him, the magic of his old home had been an integral part of himself, woven in to his bones and being. Here, there was no magic, at least, not that he possessed.

The story made him smile, and there was an unknown horse in his mind, no clear coat color or features, just there, with two crows. "I suppose.. that would work. I was just so used to talking to them that when I do now and they run off, I don't know what I did wrong. But.. that's because the magic is gone, more than anything. Maybe I should try to make a friend slowly, instead of scaring them off."

The kirin smiled, his eyes closing a moment as he felt the ripple of joy over himself, making him ease his muscles where they had been so tight, and --- "Oh!" Pale eyes opened and shock wrote itself on his face, soon replaced with embarrassment as he looked at his newfound company. "I'm so sorry. I'm Rigel!"

RIGEL

SHOW ME WHAT LOVE IS

Feliks. The name would be remembered, because it wasn't often he came across anyone remotely his own size, even if he was still the shorter of the two. Both ears twisted forward in a curious way, and he leaned himself just slightly, stretching out his neck before their muzzles touched and he drew back, a smile on the white marked lips of his. A friend then, it seemed, was made. It eased his sadness away about the animals, at least.

"Not that long, maybe only a season." He smiled a little, the gleam in his eye warm and welcoming, friendly. "I wouldn't know much about the politics myself. I'm in the Dawn Court, and found I fit in there more than any of the others, but each one has its own ideals and culture. I'd say learn about them as much as you can and see which you'd fit in the most."

His lips are still formed in to that smile, but the question takes him off guard. What... what was he? At first he wasn't sure what to say, unsure of what Feliks even meant until he said something about unicorns and pegasi. Only then did a laugh sputter from his lips, and his antlered head lifted up slightly, pale eyes shimmering. "I'm a kirin!" He even did a small twirl, somewhat. He walked a little circle in place to show himself off to the other, hair floating along his back in the wind, soft and plush, before he was grinning once more.

"There's a few of us here, in Novus, so you might see some others. Our scales sort of give us away more than our horns do."