B e l o w Z e r o
and we were dancing, dancing
like we're made of starlight, starlight
The cave mouth was foreboding, and a part of her was nervous about entering.
The last time she had to enter a cave like this, the kraken had emerged angrily, tentacles waving, wanting to smack her, hunt her, grab her. She remembered the snapping of it's beak, the baleful anger in its eyes. Shard had shoved her out of the way then, the two escaping in the kind of speed only true fear could escape. Today, though, she was alone . . . No, not alone. The soft croon from her spine, the cold feel of icicles against her neck as Yukime rubbed her forehead and crest in reassurance. Yuki kept her from being alone. So the two walked in. Or rather, Bel walked in while the ice serpent rode on her shoulders. She moved with a soft click of hoof on rock the only sound. Around her, the vapors rolling off her spine dropped in temperature, seeming to coat her in mist, but her nervous became more obvious as a lattice of frost began to grow up her hooves and legs, the fluke of her tail, leaving frost patterns on the ground with each step she took.
Be at peace The telepathic whisper reached her thoughts.
She turned her head, glowing cyan eyes meeting the glowing navy of her companion and it was only then that the mare realized she had walked far enough for her bioluminescence to activate. All down her spine and along her face, the dark blue striping and dots where now a cyan, the glow pitching the color out to light up the rock tunnels around them. Atop her back, her companions stripes where doing the same, but in a deep navy, the two creating their own light to walk with.
The light was a comfort, left over from her time with the pod.
She felt herself relax, the frost disappearing until it shined on her hooves and the ground she walked over only - hinting she wasn't as fully calm as she would like to be. But it was a start, the adventure was beginning to feel exciting again, unknown. New. And for the marine mammal, that was exciting.
"Bel"
Yukime
@Cicatrix
Notes:: <3
The last time she had to enter a cave like this, the kraken had emerged angrily, tentacles waving, wanting to smack her, hunt her, grab her. She remembered the snapping of it's beak, the baleful anger in its eyes. Shard had shoved her out of the way then, the two escaping in the kind of speed only true fear could escape. Today, though, she was alone . . . No, not alone. The soft croon from her spine, the cold feel of icicles against her neck as Yukime rubbed her forehead and crest in reassurance. Yuki kept her from being alone. So the two walked in. Or rather, Bel walked in while the ice serpent rode on her shoulders. She moved with a soft click of hoof on rock the only sound. Around her, the vapors rolling off her spine dropped in temperature, seeming to coat her in mist, but her nervous became more obvious as a lattice of frost began to grow up her hooves and legs, the fluke of her tail, leaving frost patterns on the ground with each step she took.
Be at peace The telepathic whisper reached her thoughts.
She turned her head, glowing cyan eyes meeting the glowing navy of her companion and it was only then that the mare realized she had walked far enough for her bioluminescence to activate. All down her spine and along her face, the dark blue striping and dots where now a cyan, the glow pitching the color out to light up the rock tunnels around them. Atop her back, her companions stripes where doing the same, but in a deep navy, the two creating their own light to walk with.
The light was a comfort, left over from her time with the pod.
She felt herself relax, the frost disappearing until it shined on her hooves and the ground she walked over only - hinting she wasn't as fully calm as she would like to be. But it was a start, the adventure was beginning to feel exciting again, unknown. New. And for the marine mammal, that was exciting.
"Bel"
Yukime
@
Notes:: <3
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