Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:36 pm by Songhue
She smiled as Flutter started to move easier, checking on this other from time to time as she struggled to flow with the way the rocks slid. It was good, seeing someone catch on to the trick it had taken her weeks to learn.
"Just like that, very nice! You'll be outsriping me soon, with those back paws of yours."
Laughing, she pulled a face as Flutter declaired the game had not been called stone tumbling, her eyes glowing merrily.
"I had been in a strange state of mind when I came to be with Songhue. It was not easy, having the bond between myself and Wolfy severed, even if I was placed in the care of the fae when it happened. I spent a lot of time alone."
Her ears flicked slightly at the memory, days of wandering her new home flashing through her mind in mere moments. A small smile lingered on her lips, yet her eyes grew heavy with the visions.
"She came to me one day, as she did from time to time, and asked if I knew what was wrong... Or if I lived in a blank state of confused pain. I didn't know how to answer her, in truth."
The small hand, the soft touch, a calming breeze... The sweet smell of the sea nearby. Even then, something about the fae's presence had helped her.
Songhue smiled as Sign's words carried her, standing with a flick of her wings and some obvious effort, a breeze springing up to brush Sign's forelock aside. The mare smiled, gliding easier over the stones, watching her bonded out of the corner of her eye as the tale was woven between the pair.
"Do you know why the streams do not sink into the earth in defeat, my tender droplet?"
"There is too much water, I had thought."
"It is so, in a way.. Yet I ask you, if these waters stilled, what would come of the stream?"
"It would lose it's source and become dry."
"So in order to live, these waters must move constantly, is it not so? They must ever churn and change"
"Yes, I suppose, M'Lady."
"I know this change is hard for you. I also know that you are no stream, fair one. Yet perhaps this stream will help you to see that while change may be difficult, it can also be good."
"These streams flow easily, though, strange one. How can they know what it is, to have such a thing happen?"
"They do not flow so easily, my dear. Look, and you will see."
"The stones?"
"Aye, the stones. They ever hinder the progress, the change, the flow of life. And yet, the aid it as well."
The little fae smiled here and hopped across the stream on the stones, just as she had so long ago. Sign snorted lightly, ears flicking in amusement as they relived this moment, together.
"That aids you, M'Lady, not the stream."
"Ah, yet where would my feet have gone if not for the stones? Within the water, to hinder the flow."
A pause, a moment where the Sign that skipped over the stones stared into the eyes of the fae that stood on the bank. A small breeze touched their faces, the moment building in intensity as Sign stilled, hooves splishing in the stream before quieting.
"Such things that hinder the flow of life and bring change can be used for aid, if one but knows how, dear Sign. Can you use these stones and unlock their secret? Or will you give up on such a thing the first time you fall into the water."
"Why would I bother, if I am ever to fall?"
"Because there will always be water there to catch you, Sign."
