The Lost Islands
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The dunes are endless, they sparkle in the high sunlight. She is reminded of home and those who had sent her on this particular task. Bring home the princes, they said, and you can lead your own platoon--but Zazu only wanted the honor of racing. Even now she can feel it in her bones, an itch she cannot scratch, something churning deep inside her gut. She looks at the stallion, the prince, and he seems almost amused by her actions. Zazu flicks her tail at him, he falls inside stride beside her. His voice is like the wind in the palm fronds, she flicks a brown ear at him and shrugs the slightest bit.

"We are trained to be invisible. Pehket would have it no other way," she tells him as they walk together towards the oasis. "It is a compliment of the highest that the crown prince thinks of me as no more than a ghost, that is what I am. In the Scouts, in the order of Pehket, to be invisible is highly regarded."

Zazu looks around them, at the little patch of trees and the great shrubs. The oasis is small but the water is cool, clear, she looks down at herself. There are small minnows dancing in the shallows, she tries not to distub them as she dips her head down to drink. And she gulps down water quick, her throat bobbing, her eyes half closed. Zazu hears him and she lifts her chin only a little. "Your sister-in-law?" She muses with a wicked grin, last she knew none of the princes had any wives to them and yet, here in this wasteland they had managed?

"So you have all found wives then? In this wasted land, far from Mira and your sworn oaths, you have taken brides?" Zazu smiles at him, just a little, her tongue flicking the roof of her mouth in a 'tsk' that is parts playful and parts serious.

The little sabino shakes her body, dust clouds billow from off her. For now, her third is quenched but still, the water is quite lovely. She places one hoof into the oasis, then another, pawing the water a little so it splashes against her narrow chest. "This is good water," she tells him and lowers her head to skim her lips against the surface, "good bathing water and drinking water."

And Zazu plunges herself right in.


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