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 Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 1:51 pm
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 2:07 pm
> >Valdien
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Valdien's ears were held erect, straining for any unwelcome sound. He was on patrol, of course, sent by his Chosen, King Azreth.
The King had matters of state to attend to today, so he had sent Valdien out into the fields and woods surrounding the castle to search for any sign of the Six.
From what 'Reth had told him the night before, the Six's agents were moving again, trying to infiltrate the ranks of the King's army.
But Valdien had always had a good sixth sense, so to speak, and he knew that if anyone could ferret out the spies, he could.
Giving his body a shake to settle the purple mantle around his shoulders, Valdien stepped into a trot, lifting his legs high with each step, so the gold of his bracers would catch the sun.
If any of the Six's agents were here, he wanted to draw them to him and save himself the trouble of searching.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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Chivalry< <will never die.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 2:33 pm
Earrach was slowly moving around the lovely shaded clearing when the sudden sound of hard hoof beats were heard.
Fearing a enemy of the king, Earrach looked around in a panicked frenzy trying to find a safe place to hide. Due to her coloring, Earrach knew she would stand out in the king's woods. Desperation filled her as no safe haven was to be found.
She decided to take refuge in the cospe of trees off to her left, she slowly started backing up when the hoof beats got louder as if they were almost on top of her. Earrach had just settled behind a rather large tree with some branches that would provide some cover when a magnificent flash of gold caught her eye.
"What is that?" Earrach thought to herself. "Its so blinding but I can not look away."
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 3:01 pm
> >Valdien
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Valdien halted in his tracks, hearing the faint sound of a branch snapping beneath a hoof.
Enemy.
With a bugle, Valdien pushed off of the ground with his muscled haunches, springing into the small copse of trees where the sound had originated from.
The muscled stallion crashed through the dense branches and underbrush, barreling into the mare with his chest, the gold seal of his mantle catching her square in the shoulder, knocking her off-balance.
Valdien stood, his legs planted widely apart, head lowered on his arched, muscled neck, and he snorted a low warning.
"Who are you, mare? I have not seen you in the Herd before." Valdien's voice was a rough baritone, the tension in his tone clearly audible. He did not take kindly to any horse, be it mare or stallion, that he did not personally know in these dark times.
After all, one could not be sure who was friend and who was foe.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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Chivalry< <will never die.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 3:12 pm
Earrach was standing with her head lowered hoping to make herself so small that whomever it was that was passing by would not notice her, when all of a sudden the trees and branches were being snapped and pulled away from her and a hard muscled chest smacked her on the upper shoulder causing her to sway off balance and topple over onto her side.
Earrach heard the meancing warning in the deep words that were uttered to her after she fell. Fearing for her safety she was terrified at who she had just encountered but her pride would not allow her to be defeated that easily.
Raising her eyes only, Earrach was suddenly staring into the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen. Captivated by those memorizing eyes, Earrach was at a loss of words.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 3:35 pm
> >Valdien
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"Well?" Valdien's icy blues blazed with suspicion as he looked down at the mare by his hooves. He raised a foreleg in warning, the gold-plated bracer he wore catching dappled sunlight from between the branches of trees.
The stallion's lavender mane fell haphazardly over one eye, and he gave his head a toss, flicking the stray lock of hair away from his face.
"Speak now, mare. I am guardian of the Fields and of the Herds, and I suggest you heed my words, on threat of interrogation." Valdien hated being so coarse; in situations like this, he had to throw his honorable nature to the wind, even with mares.
He could not take a chance that might possibly endanger the Herds and their foals. The Six had already picked off sixteen unbonded Azrein last month. If this was another one of their agents, coming to defile those he protected, he would be forced to take action.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Chivalry< <will never die.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 3:55 pm
"What power," Earrach thought. "His mane is such a lovely shade of purple, his eyes are such a glacier color of blue, his face looked to be sculpted by the finest artisian in all the king's land and his body there were no words to describe the fine specimen standing in front of her."
Suddenly, a foreleg was in front of her face and a deeper more forceful voice spoke. Earrach knew she must speak but what to say? "He says his name is Valdien and he is one of the Chosen Guardians. How can I be sure?"
Summoning every ounce of her pride and her defiance she raised her head, stared straight into thos glorious eyes and spoke in a icy tone "My name is Earrach and I am no threat to you or our King." " I was just over there in that clearing enjoying the feel of the shade and the lovely grass when I heard hoof beats pounding over the ground, naturally afraid since enemies are at every turn I hid but to no avail you found me anyway."
Earrach waited with baited breath to see what this magnificent stallion would do or say.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:08 pm
> >Valdien
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Valdien took a step back to allow the mare room to rise, but he gave no ground to her verbal assault. He watched her look him over, an amused glitter in his eyes. He knew he was a handsome stallion, and did not hesitate to use it to his advantage. When she had finished speaking, Valdien cocked his head, gathering his thoughts before replying.
"And have you been Chosen?" If she hadn't been, then she needed to find a Bonded immediately. There was no time to waste, for each day the strength of the Six rose while their own faltered.
Valdien lowered his head, giving her a nudge on her ribs to help her rise. Right now, the mare posed no threat, and Valdien was sure that if she showed any hostility, he could neutralize her attack.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Chivalry< <will never die.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:28 pm
Earrach laid stock still awaiting his response, when suddenly in a more determined but not angry voice asked if she is chosen.
"How to answer?" Earrach thought. "I'm technically not chosen yet but could be should I be honest or kinda not tell the whole truth of my possible bonding?" thought Earrach.
Putting her forelegs out in front of her, Earrach slowly pushed herself to a standing position not wanting to make any moves that Valdien would take as threatening. Once Earrach stood, she lifted her head proudly, looked Valdien straight in the eye and responded to his question as honestly as she could.
"No I do not believe I have been chosen though it is possible, that is why I am here. I need to find out if I have been and why." responded Earrach.
Lowering her eyes and head she awaited Valdien's answer as that one answer would decide her fate.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:37 pm
> >Valdien
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Valdien's muscles relaxed, and he extended his neck to brush his nose against the mare's cheek. This was good news.
"Good," the stallion murmured softly. "Follow me, then, and we shall see who belongs to you.
[[This is where you can introduce your Original Character if you want -- since humans are bonded to Azrein, generally we RPers play both. Like I play King Azreth and Valdien, his chosen, you can play Earrach and a character of your own devising.]]
Valdien turns on his heels, striding from the sheltered copse of trees, back out into the full sunlight of the spring day. He pauses, waiting for the mare to follow him up to the stables, where there are sure to be humans that wish to be Chosen lingering.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Chivalry< <will never die.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:56 pm
Valdien's soft nizzle and response caused Earrach to shiver with the most delicious feeling though she had no idea what it was.
" Yes I will follow you" said Earrach as she stepped slowly and carefully behind Valdien.
Earrach noticed which direction Valdien has halted awaiting her to follow, anticipation and fear started beating through her. "How am I to do this?
she thought to herself. "How can I deny Aednat after all she had done for me." though Earrach. This betrayal bit deep into Earrach's soul, for she had thought that she was truly bonded to Aednat already though nothing official was stated it was widely accepted.
Looking in the direction of the stables Earrach allowed a tear to slowly fall from her eyes as she awaited her fate.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 5:06 pm
> >Valdien
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"Come, now," Valdien spoke softly, soothing. "What are these tears upon your face?" The stallion nudged her jawline. "You do not wish to Bond, my lady?" Valdien tilted his head in genuine puzzlement.
There was nothing better than bonding with a human. So much love, so much devotion...there well of emotions was too deep and too complex to even begin to explain.
But the mare seemed...well, she seemed skittish at best. Unsure whether she really wanted to bond. And Val supposed he couldn't blame her, really. Choosing to Bond was a heavy decision, and once you bonded, you were with your Chosen for life.
But it was worth it...so why was she so frightened?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Chivalry< <will never die.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 5:15 pm
The soothing voice of Valdien washed over Earrach as she stood there with the tears now flowing freely down her face unable to stop them and not even wanting to try.
"I should tell him but once he finds out the name of my chosen he will look at me the same way every living creature does with absolute scorn and hatred" thought Earrach. "I am surprised that he has not already since I had told him my name" Earrach though silently to herself.
Gathering up her pride and the love she has for Aednat, Earrach raised her head slightly relishing in the nuzzle that Valdien had bestowed upon her and spoke her voice crackling due to the pain in her heart "I believe I have a chosen and once you hear the name of that chosen you will look at me differently and that I can not bear" Earrach said honestly.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 5:26 pm
> >Valdien
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"My dear, sure if you have been Chosen, then it is sanctioned. What is your human's name? Valdien furrowed his eyebrows, a bit worried.
For the mare to get so worked up was not a good sign. Though, the fact that the horse had Bonded already meant they had one more pair to use against the Six.
Valdien hated thinking of Azrein and Humans like pawns upon a chessboard, but there could be no helping it. As the Guardian, it was his job.
What is your Bonded's name?" he repeated, his voice soft.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Chivalry< <will never die.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 6:01 pm
Valdien was being so kind in regards to her feelings and Earrach did not want it to end though it must. "Once I tell him my chosen's name he will look at me with hatred, disdain and mistrust, its not only her it's me as well. How does he not know my name? Most azrein's do and I thought all the Guardians did as well."
Earrach summoned every single ounce of her fiery determination and pride, she looked Valdien straight in the eye and forced her voice to be cool, calm and commanding. "My chosen is Aednat."
Earrach awaited the scorn, the haterd and the disdain that she knew would be forthcoming and stood her ground.
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