Vita Nova's ashen-colored ear lobes lay flat against her skull as she watched Koray descend the dune without as much of a word directed to her. "Selfish brat." She muttered under her breathe, in between her laboring inhales, and watched from the tallest point of the dune as he moved from the soft sloping sand to the riverbank below with ease. Nova really didn't like Koray. The more she thought about it the more she realized she couldn't find one thing she liked about him. This realization made her heart flutter in her chest with a brief bit of worry. She silently hoped that his father and the rest of his family wasn't just like him. With a soft snort and deep inhale, Nova then followed his long trail in the sand and trotted after him down the slope.
She trotted right up to him, the side of her damp shoulder, barrel and hind end bumping against him as she rushed past and into the shallow waters. She had every intention of splashing him as she rolled by. The water felt fine against her ankles and moved into it until it reached her chest. Only there did she let out a long exhale, and pursed her lips together to sip from the surface. She drank quite heavily, slurping for a long span before lifting her head. She studied Koray for a long moment from her position within the water, and slowly moved to stand by him again at the riverbank. She didn't bother to give him any room before giving a nice shake and ridding the excess water from her coat.
Nova listened half heartedly to him as she strolled around in the general area, nostrils flared as she sniffed some tough, brush-like foliage and itched her side against the trunk of a tall palm tree. She hovered there in the shade, cocking one hip high over the other as she rested a hind ankle. The mare listened to Koray now as he offered up the cliff notes version of who lived here. Every so often her gaze would drift to her surroundings, which she found more interesting than Koray. She still couldn't believe she was standing in a desert, of all places, and that she lived here now.
She committed the names he rambled off to memory, especially Orhan. He was really the only one that mattered. "How long have you been away from this place?" She asks with a gentle flick of her dark tail. "What if it's changed since you left?" Nova wasn't all that worried about her position here. If Koray had been pushed out of the herd she wanted to know why. She didn't plan on aligning herself with him here. She had enough to offer this Orhan with or without Koray that she didn't intend to be turned away, no matter what happened. It did remind her of the Praire, however. Even though the place of her birth looked exactly the same when she returned looking for her father, it couldn't have been any more different. The herd she'd grown up with was gone.
Koray finally asks about her and she eyes him for a long minute before offering up a few details. "I was born in Prairie on Luthien. My father is Valentine, who ruled there for some time. I spent some time with my mother on the mainlands and recently returned on my own." Nova decided that Koray didn't need to know about Nephilim. He didn't need to know about her brother, Shamwari, wherever he was. Or even her mother, Evaline. It's not like he cared anyway.
4 | Mare | Evaline x Valentine | Smoky Back Splash | 15 hh | © Vinyl |
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