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Let there be fire.
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 09:56:47 PM by BADR

Beschea

As a child, it had not taken him long to know of the creatures that he had shared the desert with. During the days, everything was still, for the most part. The only activity to be seen had been the vultures that circled overhead, hungrily staring down at the horses that milled about in various different directions, and then the jackals that lingered on the edges of the herd, watching for a child that was not being tended to, waiting to spring…

Otherwise, the desert had turned out to be relatively dead.

At night though, it was as though the world came to life. There were small birds, sandpipers that could be seen picking around the bushes near dusk, small bugs that suddenly came to life, buzzing around heads and crawling across leaves and the spines of grasses and ferns. There were even small rodents, mouse-like in appearance that scurried across the sands and picked at various vegetation in hopes to find food. The water got cooler, and the sky seemed to open up, sometimes raining down even more water to better sustain herdlife, and even the air grew to unnaturally cool tempuratures. Night, as it would be, was a much more hospitable place in the desert.

The darkness had even been cut out by the moon, which often glowed large over the dunes, painting everything with silvery white rays and lighting up the large oasis as though it were daylight, minus the obnoxiously blaring heat.

No wonder Badr was confused to find the mare wandering around during the day.

“It’s cooler at night too.” He says, pushing on a bit and softening his voice trying to be friendlier than before, trying to get past the girl’s shell-like exterior to get t know her better… he hopes. With a little sigh, he continues on. “Nikola stopped by.” His voice is flat, the only movement seen is a lazy flick of the stallion’s golden tail across his haunches before he finishes his statement. “He only came to take Pierce.”

badr
The misguided jailbird.
stallion. flaxen liver chestnut. unknown crossbreed.
ee aa ff. fifteen & three hands. eight years. russell.
html & character by Russell
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