The Mystic Stables
THE COPSE - SUBRAINFOREST
You pick you way through the thick barrier of vines and step into a large area that is indeed slightly warmer than the last. Or perhaps it just seems that way because it is far more heavy wooded than the last area. All around you are large leaves and roots thicker than your own body. Huge trunks of obviously ancient trees span hundreds of feet into the air. You look up into the air through a crevice in the leafy canopy and make out the dark roof of the immense cavern, craged and pitted and dark from such a distance. It must be a thousand feet up at least...perhaps more!
The walk over the uneven ground, hopping giant roots and climbing through vines as thick as you arms. The sheer beauty of this place, so ancient and grown wild, takes you in. The life and energy of the place can be felt flowing all around you. You try to guess the age of the place by the sheer size of its native plants and cannot even fathom it. Thousands of years...you whisper it to yourself and wonder...
"It's true..." a voice says behind you and you whirl about to see a smallish yellow Teinalken before you lose your balance and fall on your rump! The Tein shakes his handsome head and offers you his clawed foot to help pull yourself out from between the roots where you fell. Dusting yourself off, you alternately apologize, thank, and ask the stallion his name and what he means. "What I meant was that it's true....what you think about the tree. It is over two millenia old, one of the oldest in the Hold. Many of the trees down here were the first to grow in this place. And as for who I am...I'm Ker'Avin of the Lands Of Fate." He bows slightly and then hops nimbly unto a thick swinging vine in front of you, inviting you to sit next to him on the huge vine...it must be almost two feet around! He keeps talking as you look about... "The Lady Azrielen brought me back from the Islands of my Hatching a good while ago. I've just recently reached my adulthood. See the tattoo below my eye? I recieved that from Aron, one of the Hold residents, to mark my ascent to stallionhood." He smiles proudly and look around. "The Lady Az placed me here because our kind love the lushness and water of the rainforest and because she said I could learn much from this place, of nature and my place in life. All of it seemed a little screwy if you ask me!" You share a hearty laugh and talk a bit more of his home and his chores about the Hold, and then his eyes light up when you broach the subject of family.....
"OH! Did I not mention 'Kaen! I can't believe I'd do that!" You scratch your head and ask just who Kaen might be...and are startled to see Ker' blush! "'Kaen is very special....we Teinalken have breeding groups called Vyrites. They're much like herd of wild horses...with one mare and an ever-changing number of females. A good while back I met a lovely female Tein at an Orchard that I frequent. It is a gathering place for many animals and I have many friends there. One day, when the sun was high ad spring blossoms were al over, I caught sight of a Tein across the field, very shy and introverted, who could have been my twin! I approached her and she shunned me...she was very sad. Over the next few weeks she opened up a bit more from her self-imposed sorrow and we became tenative, but strong friends. Her full name is Kohaiku'Yuuyami'Kaen, or Amber Dusk Flame...and she was as fiery as her anme when she wanted to be! She was hurt badly, it seems, in the past, and my advances reminded her of the old pains. But then, only a few weeks ago, I found her again and right on the spot I proposed to her to be my first mate...to begin the Vyrite of the Split Reflections!" You giggle a bit at the melodrama, trying to hide your smile and failing....
"What? Is it the name? Well you see, me and Kaen look almost exactly the same, but we are very different. You can visit her in her field on Altair....Vega's realm....."
He goes on for a bit about 'Kaen and new love and all the wonders entailed in such, and then on to his new friends and his Mistress, before you both simply run out of words to say and bid one another a fond farewell.....
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NAME: Ker'Avin MEANING: Unknown SHORTENED: Ker' AGE: Adult GENDER: Male SPECIES: Equicanidus TYPE: Teinalken DAME: Wild SIRE: Wild VYRITE: Split Reflection MATE: 'Kaen ORIGIN: Lands Of Fate Ker'Avin's Foal Pic |
Slightly disappointed that you must go, you look behind you and see the veil of impossibly thick vines that mark the path you took from the last chamber. You could return down that path to The Tringarri's Lair or you could follow a new path off you you right. You feel warm air wafting from that direction, but this time it is not any warmer than the place you are now. Smells of the RainForest fill you nostrils as that wind wafts you. You could follow that hypnotizing pull of exploration into another section of the Sub-RainForest, or you could simply harness the energy and power you feel all about you and leave this place entirely to begin a new journey elswhere in the Mystic Stables.....
Though you can see almost nothing through the thick foliage, you remember the directions from your journey through the Mystic Meadows. Onward to the NorthWest is the verdant and shining green of the many Sha Fields, while going back out the way you came will take you back toward the Equaritha Fields.....
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