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Lena had had a rough time the last couple days, after a crash landing she had wandered aimlessly around til she had found something that was familiar. She supposed she was lucky to have not gotten into more trouble than that because the number of evil soquilis seemed to be on the rise. More and more she heard about soquilis being cured and getting a dose of Curse Powder, making them into skinwalkers. The number of kalonas had never been low either. Smiling at her reflection, enjoying the way it distorted in the water Lena just decided that she’d take one day at a time and enjoy herself. It didn’t really make much sense, her line of thought, but that was just the way her mind worked. Maybe someday she’d be able to figure things out more easily. Bah!

Shaking her mane, her braids jangling from the bands that Aely always put on her soquilis. It was a sign of affection that all of hers had metal that would jingle. Others probably had it too, but she knew Aely worked hard to be able to get them on the manes she decided to braid. The rest got other grooming treats… not that she had a clue what they were. Where was her mind today? Perhaps standing beside the river had dulled her mind?

Lena’s eyes got about the size of dinner plates when the word, “BOO!” echoed into her mind. She had just been thinking about all sorts of evil creatures and then suddenly someone is surprising her with a visit? Side-stepping, a rush of cold going through her legs, Lena gazed with wide-eyes at the mare that had startled her. The cold was not from adrenaline, no. Instead of moving backwards or taking to the sky Lena had managed to step into the river… Several steps in fact. Even with the hot summer sun beating down on the water’s surface it was still icey colt. Shaking her head in quite a bit of confusion and a bit of fear, Lena tried to process just what had happened to her. Why had the other mare done that? It was a rather mean thing to do to someone that you don’t even know…

Opening her eyes even wider, if that was possible, she managed to keep her cool and step out of the cold water. She’d be dry in no time at all with it being so warm out. “Boo?” She said dumbly. Still not quite sure what was going on. Others would probably snap and get mean with the person who had played the trick, but Lena just figured she had been doing something wrong. “Uhm.. am I in your normal spot?” Maybe that’s what people said when someone else was standing in their exact spot at this particular river at this time a day. Yes, that was probably it.

Lena grinned a bit and settled dociley to the side. She was more than happy to stay out of the water and let Atalanta enjoy the cold water. Usually she enjoyed going into the river, but today just wasn’t one of those usually’s. “Oh.. I’ve never been here before as far as I can remember, but I forget a lot.” At least with all the faults she saw in herself, being dishonest was not one of them. The other mare looked a lot like Lena. Okay, not a lot but this was the first wind mare she had ever met. Except she wasn’t just a wind, was she? “You have a lion’s tail… and wings.. what does that make you? I know unicorns have that tail sometimes and winds have wings…”

Her train of thought derailed quickly and the lime green eyes widened to watch Ata go a bit further into the water. “I like your wings too of course.. and why would I try to scare you?” Her words were a bit out of order, as usual…. Shaking her head, the metal bands jangling once again, Lena gave another easy smile. “There are so many soquilis around, yet I always seem to be away from them. I’m glad to meet another girl, think we’ll stay friends?” The idea made her giggle, a high sweet sound that still had an almost child-like purity to it.

So it was fun to sneak up on people? What a ridiculous idea. What was truly fun at least for Lena was getting to go out and fight the bad guys and slay the monsters. Of course, she had learned awhile ago that the monsters were too strong for her to take down and she had never met a knight. That didn’t mean it wasn’t fun to pretend. “Oh.. I suppose I am. I usually have things on my mind that keep me from really focusing, yanno?” She smiled easily, purely happy once again even if she had been scared.

Giggling softly, her braids jangling once again as Lena nearly vibrated with a simple mirth, “That’s neat, she must be a unicorn. Both of my parents have wings like me.” She stretched her blue-tipped wings out just to make her point. “A lot of my herd members have tails like that… They all like ‘em. Draezan, he has wings, a horn, and a tail like that. He must be most like you?”

Lena breathed deeply and thought over the question as if it was the most important thing she had ever been asked. "Flying is fun if it's done right, but I don't really ever do it the right way." She thought of her hurt knees and banged up self and just smiled. "My parents both have wings, but my friend Lovey Dovey doesn't. She would be fun to fly with I think." Thinking of her parents just made fuzzies in Lena's brain, "Uhm.. my parents didn't really pay any attention to me or my brothers when we were growing up."

"I'm not a real good flyer, but I'll try to go too.. and race!