The wild things have more sense of it than any equine, it seems. They’ve all packed up house and fled back a ways, distancing themselves from the almost mystical line in the sand drawn by where the waves used to touch the shore. There were those, of course, who had the untimely luck to be connected to an equine, of course, which is where Oculos found himself now, pacing back and forth barely beyond where the tide would fall normally, and even that was too deep for his own sensibility. He panted with an almost uncontrollable anxiety, picking his way on graceful legs amongst the bare and drying tidal pools, back and forth and back and forth, drawing his own line in the sand— perhaps not as permanent as that left by the sea, but certainly more relevant now.
Outwards, beyond the drying, cracked, dark brown earth and its rapidly dissipating lakes of water, which was all now but the remnants of dry seafoam, like some rabid beast had stumbled here, Kassandra trekked outwards. She picked her way carefully amongst the dying ammonites and clumps of seaweed, cringing visibly when she stepped on a starfish and crushed it into a sandy paste with one hoof. Her star-blessed, silverite eyes were filled with worry and concern.
Kassandra spent her entire life, thus far, locked in a tower, save for the brief moments she was lost and dying in the desert. Now, here, was something completely alien to her. The sea, of course, was a desert with its life underwater, and the great, blue abyss above was merely a disguise. But what was more barren than a desert? What was more barren than the sea, when the sea was not there?
She would be the first to admit that a terrible curiosity was what brought her out here, even despite the warnings of her finer senses and her companion, Oculos. She wanted to see what mysteries the sea held when the blue sheet of the world was pulled back? What mysteries rested beneath?
She was so taken in by the strangeness of the occasion that she didn’t realize there were others horses in the vicinity until she almost bumbled into them, their voices falling to the back of her conscience like the constant whispers of her visions. The roan with the glimmering stars speckling on her rump took pause and lifted her head, ears alert, watching the gathering some bit away, too nervous to approach further.
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notes drops this here in a big hurry cause i gotta GO but i wanted to get this out at least.
tagged @isra @acton @Raum and everyone else
Outwards, beyond the drying, cracked, dark brown earth and its rapidly dissipating lakes of water, which was all now but the remnants of dry seafoam, like some rabid beast had stumbled here, Kassandra trekked outwards. She picked her way carefully amongst the dying ammonites and clumps of seaweed, cringing visibly when she stepped on a starfish and crushed it into a sandy paste with one hoof. Her star-blessed, silverite eyes were filled with worry and concern.
Kassandra spent her entire life, thus far, locked in a tower, save for the brief moments she was lost and dying in the desert. Now, here, was something completely alien to her. The sea, of course, was a desert with its life underwater, and the great, blue abyss above was merely a disguise. But what was more barren than a desert? What was more barren than the sea, when the sea was not there?
She would be the first to admit that a terrible curiosity was what brought her out here, even despite the warnings of her finer senses and her companion, Oculos. She wanted to see what mysteries the sea held when the blue sheet of the world was pulled back? What mysteries rested beneath?
She was so taken in by the strangeness of the occasion that she didn’t realize there were others horses in the vicinity until she almost bumbled into them, their voices falling to the back of her conscience like the constant whispers of her visions. The roan with the glimmering stars speckling on her rump took pause and lifted her head, ears alert, watching the gathering some bit away, too nervous to approach further.
words 414
notes drops this here in a big hurry cause i gotta GO but i wanted to get this out at least.
tagged @isra @acton @Raum and everyone else
