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Post by Brise on Nov 6, 2014 16:55:57 GMT -7
Crumbling in disgrace
But there's nothing more sadistic than an infant Waving his pistol in my face He wants me right down on my knees Change was such a unique concept, one she dared to question and manipulate. But this time is was different, for this change was so overwhelming, so life-changing, it was far too giant to even begin to alter. It would make her a bit more responsible, a bit more open to the world. Never again would she be alone or left behind, well at least not for a while. Perhaps it was no mistake or it might be the biggest one in her life. Only fate knew, and what a fickle bitch she could be.
Yet her thoughts shifted away as she studied the egg before her. It was trembling slightly and hairline fractures decorated the shell. It shivered once more before slightly splitting. A small ebony paw reached for the sky. The tiniest hint of a smile played on her lips as a velvety head poked out. The pup walked over on weak legs {similar to that over a foal's first few steps} and sniffed her hoof. The boy sat square down and looked at Brise with his tail wagging mercilessly.
She reached her muzzle down to sniff the creature and she was met with a quick, sloppy kiss. Brise laughed softly and smiled down at the innocent bundle of joy. "Bonjour, Loki. Welcome to the monde." Her words were light and full of laughter. Perhaps she could take the creature instead of leaving it here. After all it isn't everyday a goddess gives you a gift. She looked at the dog tenderly and crouched down to stroke its skull.
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Post by Brahm on Nov 6, 2014 17:40:11 GMT -7
WORDS: 255 | TAG: Brise | NOTES: sorry for any awkwardness
The scene before him was not one he had witnessed before. A creature, a mammal, had been hatched from an egg and he could not help the nausea that churned in his near empty stomach. He had only ever seen a canine birthed from a female of their species, but, here in Black Hollow, they broke that law and allowed such an alien arrival of life.
An arrival he could not tear his bright eyes from.
From where he stood a good distance in the oddly colored field, her words were barely heard. Her lilting voice was enough, though, to bring him from his blank stare from the ebony dog. Brahm's dark banded ears perked and his chiseled head lifted back into its resting position high atop his neck. There it tilted ever so slightly as he worked to place the accent of the painted mare.
Even the beat his mind took to run through the voices of his past was too long, it gave the unknown woman a window to lift her head and spy his large, golden form. Remembering the way he had given Iona a start with a late introduction, a light step was taken in the pair's direction and a nickered grunt forced itself from his black nostrils.
"In all my years, I have never seen such a birth." The heavy warmblood took a few more steps towards the mare and her companion, voice bleached of emotion rumbling deep within his chest. "Is this a common thing in Black Hollow, ma'am?"
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Post by Requiem on Nov 6, 2014 20:25:51 GMT -7
The familiar sound of onyx coated pistons making contact with the Earth was the only sound the lass echoed. Her silent figure, almost looking like a flaming ghost, of sorts plodded along the lengthy path, going who knows where. Requiem was a wanderer, a child of the bird you could say, yet she wielded no wings to take off. Shaking out her flaming tassles, the shadow she casted mimicked her every move, circling the mare's lazy bodice much like a shark as the sun went from one of her broad shoulders to the other in a simple bend from the path. And much like a shark indeed, the wafting scent of a new arrival drifted ever so sweetly towards the dark lass.
Her strides grew ever so closer to the sweet scent, the smell of something pure and innocent, beckoning her almost. Stopping dead in her tracks, the view of a golden equine filled her orbs. Was this the smell of the thing so pure, so innocent? From closer inspection, a second scent hit her, one that was oddly familiar. As her orbs zoomed in, she could make out a 'defect' in the other's party's wings. No, it can't be... And with a wide grin, the mare gave out a warning nicker, loud enough to touch only his ear and his alone.
And then she sprung. Like a wolf chasing deer, the girl's obsidian stilts carries her swiftly closer to the brute. Stopping at just the right time, she skidded to a halt, slightly bumping into his oblivious bulk. Shoving him ever so softly, her bright vocals rang out. "Hey Brahm! What are you doing all the way out here? No more birds to terrorize?" With a swift turn of her crown towards the direction Brahm's orbs originally were, Requiem stopped with all bubbly character. Aha, there you are... Turning her charcoal frame to the other pegasus, Requiem could make out the sight of yet another smaller creature. Tilting her head in curiosity, the mare decided she wouldn't go any nearer to the new equine or it's weird animal friend.
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Post by Brise on Nov 7, 2014 18:09:45 GMT -7
Crumbling in disgrace
But there's nothing more sadistic than an infant Waving his pistol in my face He wants me right down on my knees The embrace lasted only a few moments before voices drifted over the violet lands. Her ears peaked immediately and an angry snarl spread across her features. She lifted her painted face to look at the intruders and disdain chiseled itself into her eyes. She glared at the stonily, saying nothing but showing her disapproval for their rude interruption. She started to walk towards them but forgot the wiggling creature nipped at her heels could not waddle that far for a moment. She slowly kneeled onto the ground and beckoned for the pup to clamber onto her spine. The male did so slowly but soon settled laying his head on her withers and falling fast asleep.
She slowly walked over to the stallion, of whom looked like a zebra and mule had a fun night, and a mare kissed by markings of lightning, well... It could be fire as well. It did not matter for flames of fury danced within her eyes and they were set on the odd pair chatting pleasantly. When the brute spoke Brise turned to him still throwing off a loathing stare. "Yes." Her voice was clipped, her foreign accent making it alien. Her bodice was rigid and unfriendly. She carried an extremely demanding presence, almost like she could suck the respect out of you without effort.
She then turned to the unicorn. The girl radiated a bubbly energy, yet there was something wicked, even forced about it. This caught Brise's curiosity quite quickly. She studied the mare a bit more before speaking. "I don't believe I caught your name. Mine's Brise." Her words held a certain regalia, for when she spoke the tone was dead but impatient at the same time.
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Post by Brahm on Nov 8, 2014 17:29:05 GMT -7
The dunskin had wanted to chide his dark friend for her brash entrance, but could not speak ill of her in the presence of another. Nothing could justify tearing down a comrade in the face of a stranger, even if his voice was hushed enough so that only she could hear. Rather, he gave her a light bump back and tossed a stern glance her way, his eyes displaying a silent warning while his body welcoming her presence and its touch.
From Requiem, Brahm's attention was quickly snapped back at the sound of the female pegasus' approach. The closer the oddly marked creature came, the more palpable the stranger's disdain became. His body responded involuntarily, the muscles below his sooty pelt contracting over their bone frame, his feathers puffing up as his wings shifted against themselves and his ribs. The heavy warmblood's matched the stranger's in stiffness with his brightly scarred skin stretched taunt over his bulk, ears laced back and black nostrils flared.
His brain barely registered her answer, eyes bleached of emotion as he watched the pegasus turn to his fiery marked friend. The dun stallion's presence ignored, he strangled down a grunt before the noise could escape and took a step back from Brise on his powerful limbs.
Even with his threatening stance, he could not intrude on the mares' conversation should they wish to continue solely between themselves.
But he remained ready, head only turning to expel the spittle that had pooled in his mouth before returning to its high position atop his thick, gently curled neck where he cast a questioning glance Requiem's way. Should this Brise feel brave enough to put the fury in her scarlet eyes into action, the old soldier would not object to sinking his cookie-cutter teeth into her ebony hide. While he was certain his friend could hold her own against this opponent, he could not push down his defensiveness.
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Post by Requiem on Nov 8, 2014 20:47:52 GMT -7
Raising her ebony crown, the mare's doe optics caught the hard glare of the brute, causing her to shift her weight uncomfortably, even taking a small scoot away from him. All signs stood out about his demeanor, and she understood why. The voice of a flat, yet feminine equine poked the mare's dishes like a dagger, one that she could not ignore.
And her clam position was now long gone. The inky maiden stood with the body language of belligerent being, yet her eyes said otherwise. Her hazel pools spoke words of a placid being, and rightfully so as her words, free from accent, tumbled from her maw. Arching her crest ever so slightly as to lower her bi-colored bone, and on the tip a small purple sphere of light. A brow raised ever so slightly; well, the muscle above her lantern at least. Her own voice added itself into the atmosphere, lingering towards the dishes of her counterparts. "Requiem. My name is Requiem."
And with a slight crease to her clenched jaw, Requiem's bodice seemed to relax, the tense muscles now loosened as they blended back into form. With a wandering eye, the lass studied the small, innocent being quite acutely. Some sort of wolf pup, it seemed yet she wasn't so sure. A curious sight to behold, knowing that is was not everyday a mammal busted from the cloak of an egg shell.
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Post by Brise on Nov 9, 2014 18:48:28 GMT -7
Crumbl ing in disgrace
But there's nothing more sadistic than an infant Waving his pistol in my face He wants me right down on my knees The normal response to being threatened by a horse with three times as much strength of you would to be to back up and apologize, correct? Brise did no such thing, she merely looked at him boredly although she was studying his moves with razor precision. Every twitch of his muscles was seen by Brise. "Lay your feathers flat boy. You ain't no pretty peacock, so there is no need to show them off. How long did you serve in some sort of militia?" Her words were still free of emotion but her face was blanketed in curiosity. She had met a general whom had told her of Black Hollow, and he moved in a similar way to the beast before her. Though this one seemed to have a rather inflated hero complex. Brise remained unfazed by the stallion's obvious threat he held over her and slowly turned back to the unicorn. "Interesting. And how long have you let others pick your fights for you?" Brise's eyes drifted towards Brahm and then back to the mare. If she was right there was more than just a fiery marking running up her thighs, there was some running through her veins. After allowing adequate time to get under her company's skin, granted that she was even able to, Brise cleared her throat and looked at both of the figure before her with the same distant glance. "As much fun as it is instigating I do have a proposal for you both. Peacock, you seem to have an substantial amount of training and I am in need of that. I could over you a general position in the herd I am forming, should you prove worthy of it. And you, Requiem, you seem a bit stressed even with the hulk guarding you. Perhaps you are in need of a, shall we say, group setting." Loki started yipping at the end of her sentence, ruining the dramatic flare she was looking for. Brise tossed her neck and listened as Loki cried in surprise at the hair thrown in his face.
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Post by Brahm on Nov 10, 2014 1:43:19 GMT -7
WORDS: 473 | TAG: Brise / Requiem | NOTES: that's a lot of speech <:
Brahm did not miss the way her gaze followed each minuscule movement of his large form, nor the way curiosity played across her features heavily marked features as she slipped insult after insult from her white lips. When he responded to her question, it was as bleached as hers with a velvety touch to his normally rough baritone and not a touch of the scorn he had felt when addressed by Brise's nicknames.
"Of course, ma'am, I never meant to imply kinship with such a haughty, overly colorful bird. The title fits you and the excessive painting of your crown so much more appropriately." His massive shoulders loosened during his speech, just enough so that he may roll them in a soft shrug as his right rear leg shifting rigidly to jangle the pale chain and cuffs above and below its hock. The cuffs stood as reminders of his old life among conquerors and comrades, identifiers of rank and alliance. But now one pair stood broken and his service slandered by a stranger. "And your assumption was quite off. For nearly thrice the years you seem to have been breathing, I've never served in something as mild as a militia."
His gentlemanly tones fade off as Brise's attention shifted to his comrade. The youth threw a tease Requiem's way, one that the dunskin wished for her to take and show the contemptuous thing that she was fully capable of defending herself.
Whatever his fiery marked friend found appropriate to respond with, Brahm would offer her a tiny half-smile only she could see.
The conversation quickly turned from the heavily painted mare working to get under their skin to trying to recruit them. For a moment, the heavy warmblood considered being surprised, but could not. It was often that those of arrogant mind also carried an ambitious heart, and land was the most sought-after prize of this breed of youth.
He gave a loud snort as he shook loose his muscles and turned an amused eye on the pegasus mare and the pitiful, yipping thing on her neck. "Your tactic of gathering followers is to butter them up with insults before offering them a position under you? I can see that working well for you in the future."
Once again, he kept his voice level and smooth, letting on nothing but the soft mirth reflecting in his bright green gaze and the poorly disguised prick of sarcasm in his last sentence. He continued on in his docile tones after a beat for Brise, and possibly Requiem's, reply, "Before I shout yea or nay at an idea proposed to me by an equine whose name I just learned, would you oblige me the details of your prospective herd? Rank, rules, location; the general to give me an idea of what I may get myself into."
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Post by Requiem on Nov 10, 2014 8:35:59 GMT -7
The obsidian unicorn's lobes would swivel upon her cranium as she caught the first question, almost instantly wiping the curious smirk off of her velveteens. Regaining a sort of formal posture, the ebony figures muscles would quiver as a result to the comment. She had been in plenty of spars, some for the rush of the adrenaline and others for the fight of life. Stomping a single hind hoof in protest, her voice would quickly melt from her tongue, words ringing through the air. "Why, I've had my fair share of fights as I belong to no one but shadows." Her tone wasn't sweet, nor was it full of anger. Something bland, yet tasteful.
And with the next line of dialogue the other Pegasus dripped from her labias, which very much caught the lady off guard, Requiem gave some time to let the words settle in her mind. She must be out of her god damned mind... A small, poking voice spoke in the unicorn's own cranium. And another retaliated. There is a promise of safety. Maybe I should take it? And with a roll of her withers, Requiem's final answer seemed to peek out of her jaws rather than slip into the breeze. "Well, I suppose I could use the civilization. Might not be as bad as the other horses say, I just hope you know I'm not signing a pact to be a slave or anything. I'm capable of looking for my self." You might regret this.. and with a violent shake of her crest, the mare hoped to be-rid of the voices that spoke against this choice. With a small, unsure gleam in her hazel pools, the mare turned her attention back to the familiar dun stallion, reading his masculine face like a book.
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Post by Brise on Nov 10, 2014 11:53:07 GMT -7
Crumbling in disgrace
But there's nothing more sadistic than an infant Waving his pistol in my face He wants me right down on my knees His insult back was quite a good one and Brise took it with the elegance of a peacock. "Ah, clever and strong. Looks like I found the Hercules of these lands." The dry humor that ran through her voice almost brushed out her accent but it lingered just barely. Her emotionless eyes flitted to meet his, a slight challenge hidden in them. "I did not mean to insult a veteran, please pardon my rashness." There was no sincerity in her voice, merely the curl of her mocking lip. She looked at his cuff and chain disconnectedly and did not prod any further. She was not stupid, should she pick a fight with this beast she would not win. Humiliation did not look good on Brise. She turned back to the unicorn and listened to her defensive response with an even more amused face. "The shadows are stupid not to sharpen your tongue some more. At least your friend here can throw me something I could laugh at." Her words were sharp, ones that rang with a certain air to not argue with them. Even the pup upon her back stopped chewing on her wings and shuddered. Her attention was drawn back to the brute, a rather demented grin drawn across her lips at his comment. "Would you rather me kiss your scars and promise you the world? I will be doing no such thing. I am also only ruffling up your rather dull feathers to see if you are actually worth my time. I don't recruit arrogant, narcissistic asses. It doesn't look pretty in war. And I am being honest, showing you whom you would have to follow under. I'm not wearing a mask or pulling off some act. I'm not some stupid colt trying to manipulate you into wanting to follow you. Should you say you were not the least bit amused, you would be lying." Her tone went back to one a queen would use to scold her offspring. The beast spoke again and then Requiem. "It seems as though Requiem here is not in need of any other motive than her own for a herd. That makes things a bit easier. And relax, mademoiselle, I am not going to make you sign a labor contract with your own blood. I'm not that cruel." A wicked gleam shone in her eyes as she spoke, and she turned to Brahm with it still flickering. "I will be moving into Dewberry when I acquire adequate resources. Have you not been here long enough to travel much, it a rather grand lake with everything a herd would require, including a rather useful military advantage. Fog suits ambushes nicely, does it not? It would be an aristocracy and should you two oblige to assist me in forming the first herd in these parts I would reward you quite handsomely, for titles gain respect and hold power. The rules would be established by those with influence, which could be you two."
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Post by Brahm on Nov 11, 2014 9:41:38 GMT -7
The pegasus was quickly growing tired of this mare and her antics. The only thing keeping his eyes from rolling from her mocking comment and faux plea for pardon was the refusal to display something so childish. But even the threat of allowing such an immature gesture possibly fuel the painted thing with more dulling blades to try and work under his dull golden skin began to seemed not nearly as strong a deterrent as the words were turned back to Requiem.
Even as he wished he could will his body and mind to stand at the stiff attention they had held when first the instigator had broken their duo rather than the lull they had slumped into, use the intensity of the once wired muscles and lunge forward to snap out her tongue, it was simply something he could not do.
The now still pup on her back that had been chewing on her black wings seemed to have more bite than she and striking out based on unbacked bark alone was not a common thing for Brahm.
And then the mare played a royal tone, scolding him even as she painted herself a hypocrite. From what he had seen of Brise, he would call her both. The brute found her self-righteous, seeming almost immediately to place herself high above the pair and work to bring them below her at the measly cost of her voice. He figured she felt entitled to rule simply because they graced the earth with their presence and could not help but slip a comment in about her last sentence.
"I will not lie, but you may find I am hardly laughing with you."
Before the white face mare could turn from her speech to Requiem with her gleaming eyes, Brahm spoke up again in a worn baritone similar to the one she had used when speaking to him just moments before. "Ma'am, I would have believed you would have realized this without me having to spell it out." From scolding to excrutiatingly slow as he sounded out each syllable with the patience of a mother teaching her child to speak, speeding up only slightly after his first sentence. "Easy or not, I am not Requiem, and she is not I. If you plan on recruiting beyond the range of arrogant, narcissistic asses, you will have to learn that everyone will differ in what they ask when you present an offer."
In response to his questions, Brise went on about the land she wished to secure and of ranks and power. His jaw tightened and ground his flat molars in small circular rotations as she prattled on, loosening only when her words faded from the air to allow the shake of his head that followed a more comfortable one for himself.
"Fog would be beneficial in an ambush, yes, but for the wrong side."
He gave a huff through barely flared nostrils, gold flecked eyes bored into her scarlet ones with a coldness unbefitting his didactic voice he continued after a pause long enough for reply. "With titles, the only power they gain is the power their supporters give them. You can name yourself Empress of Gods, but without the support of those gods, you are nothing.
"Similar to power, is the respect and influence you speak of. For strangers to respect your title, it must first be given respect by those above it. No one will respect a Duke or his influence if his King treats him as a Jester." For a beat while he spoke his gaze flickered towards Requiem, searching her face as she had done his. He did not allow it to linger for more than a fraction of a moment before snapping back to the pegasus. "This means, to make well on your promise, you must set aside your contempt for those around you and allow yourself to hold the positions in your aristocracy in the regard you want your people to hold them."
Brahm maneuvered in as tight half-circle as he could perform around himself to stand with his rump facing Brise and his wing brushing against his shorter friend's rump, thick neck carrying his head over his shoulder closest to Requiem. The time he took to reach his new position was more than enough for replies from both mares.
"Now, if you were truthful in saying that you were indeed providing us with an unclouded window into the ruler we can expect to serve under, I can safely assume the level of courtesy you have shown me as a prospective general will not differ if I agree to take the position. I cannot accept if my Queen is to treat me like a fool regardless if I am to be a serf or a King." The dunskin offered a dutiful dip of his head to each, bumping the friesian's rump with his wing as he gave her a small smile. "But, I must respect your decision and will not hound you to change your mind. I hope this works out for you.
"As for you, Brise, thanks for the extremely tedious waste of time. I hope my some part of my advice gets through that foreign skull, even it will most likely be wasted on one such as yourself."
Here, he lingered for a moment, with a dare in his steady gaze for the Queen of Instigators to try her hand once more.
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Post by Requiem on Nov 12, 2014 20:23:08 GMT -7
Like a foal caught up between her parent's argument, the smaller Friesian lass seemed to shrink to an even smaller size, her obsidian dishes turning every which way as she let the two bicker to and fro. Her skin would shiver in the places the large brute's dual wings bumped her, sending back a half smile. The words that were being said stung her cranium, and in many cases she wanted to defend her friend, but that would only make matters for everyone worse. Requiem's aunt had once told her ' Bickerin' ain't solve nuthin yung lady and don you or yer cousin think other wise' What a strange character, her aunt was... ripping her mind away from the past, the small mare would only stare as she saw the pools from each party twinkle with anger, maybe even hatred. With a nervous jolt through her hind hoof, her charcoal audits drank in the words of Brahm's wise words, and the hissing pain or Brise's. Not sure which team to roote for really, the lass let the two go at it, her own hazel optics reflecting the emotions of a placid, being yet her mind screamed, almost playing tug of war. Take the rabbit, or the wolf? Protection, or peace? Brise Brahm
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