HER DARK EYES drank up each expression that played across Kauri’s face, and for a moment she was afraid at what could have been. That she had interrupted neither reverie nor play was obvious, though the gravity of the damage that his internal demons were capable of doing – even hungered to unleash – had not sunken in. The stallion cloaked in dusky evening had been engulfed in something that Hydra could not understand, set on some jagged path that her experiences generously ushered her away from.
For now, darling. The beasts of Novus dance to a mischievous drum.
She wanted to press against him, to offer a warm shoulder on this autumn night. She wanted to show that he was not alone, though the strangeness of it all was too new and Hydra too frigid in her youthful awkwardness.
The metallic tinkling of his chain danced in her ears, and she tilted her head in curiosity as if just noticing the glinting adornments. She smiled, soft and genuine, as he extended his muzzle towards hers. Briefly she admired the angular planes of the ghostly white buzzard’s beak that had risen to greet her, pondering why it was that others wore bits and pieces of the dead. She shook her head as she withdrew her nose, the shark’s teeth that were nestled in her thick mid-length mane clinking lightly, hollowly.
Blinking, she frowned slightly at his end remark and flicked her long forelock aside. Hydra was too naïve, too new to the realm of Novus, and too outcast from her community to have known love that was not between parent and child. Even friendship had evaded her like a dipping swallow, hovering just out of reach before dodging back to the sky in a flash of glittering navy.
“I find that this time of night is the best time to think, to just be,” she spoke as a smile flit across her black lips. “No, no… boys are gross and full of cooties, remember? I’d hate to catch those!” She jested. “Speaking of catching things, I’d hate to catch cold. Shall we?” she invited as she began to leave the cool water, hauling her muscular figure from the creek in languid strides. “I’m Hydra, by the way.”
It felt like ages since she had shared her name with a stranger.
For now, darling. The beasts of Novus dance to a mischievous drum.
She wanted to press against him, to offer a warm shoulder on this autumn night. She wanted to show that he was not alone, though the strangeness of it all was too new and Hydra too frigid in her youthful awkwardness.
The metallic tinkling of his chain danced in her ears, and she tilted her head in curiosity as if just noticing the glinting adornments. She smiled, soft and genuine, as he extended his muzzle towards hers. Briefly she admired the angular planes of the ghostly white buzzard’s beak that had risen to greet her, pondering why it was that others wore bits and pieces of the dead. She shook her head as she withdrew her nose, the shark’s teeth that were nestled in her thick mid-length mane clinking lightly, hollowly.
Blinking, she frowned slightly at his end remark and flicked her long forelock aside. Hydra was too naïve, too new to the realm of Novus, and too outcast from her community to have known love that was not between parent and child. Even friendship had evaded her like a dipping swallow, hovering just out of reach before dodging back to the sky in a flash of glittering navy.
“I find that this time of night is the best time to think, to just be,” she spoke as a smile flit across her black lips. “No, no… boys are gross and full of cooties, remember? I’d hate to catch those!” She jested. “Speaking of catching things, I’d hate to catch cold. Shall we?” she invited as she began to leave the cool water, hauling her muscular figure from the creek in languid strides. “I’m Hydra, by the way.”
It felt like ages since she had shared her name with a stranger.
H Y D R A
How the heavens they opened up
Like arms of dazzling gold
With our rain-washed histories well, we do not need to be told
Like arms of dazzling gold
With our rain-washed histories well, we do not need to be told
@Kauri
ooc. So sorry for the delay!
ooc. So sorry for the delay!
