JASPER|stallion|age seven|bay|anglo-arab x dolahest|
Ah the desert. This was truly a place that tested the instincts and skill of even the toughest of stallions and mares alike. It was not just the extreme climate during the day and night, it was the emptiness or the lack of presence that infected the mind and could drive the most sound of intellects mad. It was very amusing to Jasper, who rather thought the desert as homey as the mountains, plains, and forests. The moon was a gentle crescent this eve and he was on the move. The night air was cold to the skin and was refreshing against the mild sweat he was building up. "Woohoo!" he exclaimed as he ran free across the scorched earth that lay cracked and dry beneath his hooves. For a soul that had found himself taken by the sea in a wild storm, having survived to find himself washed up on unknown shores bordering a desert no less...he was quite a jolly sprite. To the dark bay, now deceivingly black in the night, a whole new adventure was unraveling.
The day had been a sticky one and he dared to cross this unfamiliar desert in the devastating heat. How fortunate that he should come across stony ruins uncovered by gusting winds. The sands were shifting still among them and who knew how tall these stone structures once stood. Heck, an entire mountain could be buried under these sands for all he knew. Nonetheless he was grateful for the shelter the towering stones provided. His evening was kicked off with a dust storm that announced itself with roaring thunder. He remained in his bunker until the last possible moment when he took flight with a confident grin plastered to his lips. He winded around the structures as they were buried within minutes by the storm that felt like it was at the stallion's hooves. The adrenaline of his thrilling escape still coursed through his veins though the hours had passed and storm had shifted and likely died.
And as luck would have it, palms came into view and other sparse foliage. The stallion slowed and took in the spectacle. His mind was still in tact and the heat was not around to tempt him so surely he was not dreaming this. He could smell equines, those of his kind though he yet could see no one. He directly, ignoring the fact that this land may very well be occupied and made way to the waters of which its freshness he could already taste.
|played by vnes| |