Solira: The Ocean: FOR ALANNA & DUSAN

alone I walk the winding way
it's over, no longer, I feel it growing stronger
I'll live to die another day, until I fade away
why give up, why give in...it's not enough, it never is
so I will go on until the end

- Breaking Benjamin, "until the end"

My search for the boy from before the burning brought to mind the fact that there are probably other children here. If that is the case I would like to know them and so today will be spent in looking. It is a sunny day and the light reflects golden upon the tidal pools while playing off the tops of the ocean ways in a most fascinating manner. This distracts me for only a moment however magnificent the sight, I am a hard one to sideline when my mind is set on something specific. In no time at all I am traveling along the beach again eyes and ears open for any sign of a youthful equine.

There is a slight chill in the air one that speaks of winter to come, a winter I do not look forward to. Shaking off the thought as something that can not be changed and as such not rating concern I continue. A mornings worth of walking has brought me to the end of the beach and a partially secluded sandy spit where it does not surprise me to find two youngsters. One is a colt the other a tall snowy filly. The pale hued girl is older, almost too old to be considered a child but not quite. I watch the pair of them for a time determining by their closeness and obvious trust of one another as well as their similarities in form that they must be relations of some sort.

The air moves strangely around them, a strangeness akin to that which I noticed about the Severus creature in Desreal nearly a season ago. I know now that this is an indication of the power, the elements, in play perhaps even an indication that these two have some level of mastery. This power is not something I like or trust but what would make me ill at ease in an adult does not effect me near as much in a child. The presence of the elements here is noted and set aside for the time being. So with no further ado I advance on the pair in as unthreatening a manner as I can manage. “Hello…”

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Call me JANTZ for that is my name. Watch out for my 16.2hh, dark LIVER CHESTNUT coated person for I have the potential to be deadly. Trust what I know for I have spent SEVEN long years learning it. The blood of DON, GRONINGEN, TRAKEHNER, MUSTANG, ARABIAN & FRIESIAN runs in my veins. Do not ask the names of my parents for I remember them not. Look for me in SOLIRA under the heading of SPY, know my class as ESPIONAGE within which I hold the rank of NONE and mark my element as UNLEARNED. Tie my heart strings to LOCHSME until the day I die and trace my blood down to BILLIS & RONDI. My strings are pulled by the beautiful TZARRA who should be credited with both my creation and my words.