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- #21
Pepper sighed - because of course this pegasus, who interrupted her walk to yell at her (good intentions or not) would need to rest so soon after he insisted that he be her escort. She glanced at Puppa as Orion took off from the ground to look for somewhere suitable.
"Do you think he'd be able to find us if I just ran off?" She asked her tail, only to jump a bit as Orion landed beside her, before Puppa could reply. She nodded tersely when she was asked to follow him. It wasn't too long before they reached a small clearing, cozy enough for two ponies with bushes that had berries on them. Pepper moved towards the berry bushes to try and determine if they were edible or poisonous. She'd brought some trail mix and other snacks with her in her saddle bag, but if free food was readily available...
She hadn't been watching Orion shuffling off into the woods. She hadn't watched as he gathered firewood and she didn't realize that he'd started a fire until the smell of smoke filled the air. Her legs locked and Puppa growled - the first sound her tail had made since they'd left Winterbloom. The normally sleek fur along her spine and haunches raised and bristled - a natural fear response. Puppa's fur was bushed out too.
He'd made a fire, of all things. She wanted to scream - at Orion, out of terror, but she couldn't do more than glance over her shoulder at it. At the orange and yellow flames, licking along the wood. She remembered the stories - every ghoulie did. It had only been five years since they'd come out of hiding. She had family members, in her lineage, who had been burned alive... at the hands of outsiders - pegasi weren't the cause, but unicorns had been. Orion... he'd said that his mother was a unicorn. Any number of his siblings could be unicorns too.
Wild-eyed and and practically frothing at the mouth as her fear rooted her to the spot, Puppa was rearing back, shoving against Pepper to spur her into movement. Peppermint stumbled forward a step and then, as though remembering she could move, bolted out of the clearing. She kept running, shoving branches out of her way. The scent of smoke remained in her nostrils and she wanted to be clear of it. As the sky darkened and the shadows grew, Peppermint dove into the nearest shadow, accessing her shadow magic - her birthright and ghoulie trait - the thing that ghoulies had been burned for having. Her physical form melted away into shadows as she hid away in it, slinking from one shadow to the next. She would get away from the fire and the pony who started it. And she would continue her journey to the mines, alone. @Shadrya
((I hope this is an okay spot to wrap up this RP! I'm happy to have them meet again later, though perhaps not directly after this one. ^^ Thanks for RPing with me! I had a ton of fun with this one!))
"Do you think he'd be able to find us if I just ran off?" She asked her tail, only to jump a bit as Orion landed beside her, before Puppa could reply. She nodded tersely when she was asked to follow him. It wasn't too long before they reached a small clearing, cozy enough for two ponies with bushes that had berries on them. Pepper moved towards the berry bushes to try and determine if they were edible or poisonous. She'd brought some trail mix and other snacks with her in her saddle bag, but if free food was readily available...
She hadn't been watching Orion shuffling off into the woods. She hadn't watched as he gathered firewood and she didn't realize that he'd started a fire until the smell of smoke filled the air. Her legs locked and Puppa growled - the first sound her tail had made since they'd left Winterbloom. The normally sleek fur along her spine and haunches raised and bristled - a natural fear response. Puppa's fur was bushed out too.
He'd made a fire, of all things. She wanted to scream - at Orion, out of terror, but she couldn't do more than glance over her shoulder at it. At the orange and yellow flames, licking along the wood. She remembered the stories - every ghoulie did. It had only been five years since they'd come out of hiding. She had family members, in her lineage, who had been burned alive... at the hands of outsiders - pegasi weren't the cause, but unicorns had been. Orion... he'd said that his mother was a unicorn. Any number of his siblings could be unicorns too.
Wild-eyed and and practically frothing at the mouth as her fear rooted her to the spot, Puppa was rearing back, shoving against Pepper to spur her into movement. Peppermint stumbled forward a step and then, as though remembering she could move, bolted out of the clearing. She kept running, shoving branches out of her way. The scent of smoke remained in her nostrils and she wanted to be clear of it. As the sky darkened and the shadows grew, Peppermint dove into the nearest shadow, accessing her shadow magic - her birthright and ghoulie trait - the thing that ghoulies had been burned for having. Her physical form melted away into shadows as she hid away in it, slinking from one shadow to the next. She would get away from the fire and the pony who started it. And she would continue her journey to the mines, alone. @Shadrya
((I hope this is an okay spot to wrap up this RP! I'm happy to have them meet again later, though perhaps not directly after this one. ^^ Thanks for RPing with me! I had a ton of fun with this one!))