Username: heyheygirl101
Name; Anchor to the Other Side // Amara
Gender: Mare
Halter Color: Magenta with grey smoke like her markings
Personality: Amara seems slightly crazy, but it is merely because she can see what others cannot. In truth Amara can see the dead but it is often very difficult for her to decipher whether a horse is dead or alive. Which is why she appears to be crazy because she carries on conversations with thin air. Amara's soul purpose for being on this earth is to provide an easy way to pass over to the other side, something only 3 others share with her.
Smoke Meaning: Amara's smokey markings is something that to most seems hauntingly beautiful. When people describe like this she often has a little chuckle, because they don't know how right they are. Amara is an Anchor. Yeah you read that right, an Anchor, they provide a safe way to cross to the other side, the ghostly realm, heaven, what ever you decide to call it. Her markings are what make her noticeable to ghosts. In our realm they may be black, but in the ghostly realm they glow, which is why ghosts are always able to find her, and are so drawn to her. She shares these markings with 3 other beings, however they are unique to each individual.
1 Extra: story:
One Final Goodbye
I grazed next to my mother, it was just as any other day had started, I wanted milk but mother had told me no yet again, saying I had to learn to not depend on her for food, for we could be separated at anytime. I of course could think of how we could be seperated, owners loved us and would not part us. Sadly there are much stronger forces that can part a mother from her child.
It came suddenly, the sinister yowl of a cougar as it leaps towards its prey, giving it only warning enough to accept death, that was only if you knew you were the target. My mother thought I was the target, even I thought I was the target, but we were both wrong. The cougar had targeted my much stronger mother, and was hoping that she would come to get me away, a mother instinct can make them very easy prey.
I watched in shock as my mother lay dying before my eyes, the cougar had looked into my eyes and fled, then I had not known why, but know I all to well the reason others do not like to be close. "Amara..." My mother called, she was weak and near her end, I could tell by the searching look in her eyes. "Amara... Remember... Stay... Str...ong... In..." She did not finish her words. "Strong in what?" I cried "MOTHER?!" I realized then she was forever gone from my life and from my world.
*****
I remember waking up in the barn, it was dark and I called for my mother before the events of the day returned to my mind, my body shook violently as I sobbed, remembering the way she had nuzzled me, and the sad fact that my mother would never be able to nuzzle me again. Then I heard a voice almost as faint as a whisper calling out to me, it had a similar sound to my mother's call but I knew it couldn't be. "Open your inner eyes" it called to me. What are inner eyes?, I thought to myself, utterly confused because my own eyes were open and I could see no one around me. So the question was who was talking. I decided that trying this inner eye opening couldn't do me any harm, a part of me still regrets that decision. I focused with my mind, trying to see what was obviously in front of me, scrunching up my features I knew I looked silly but I wanted to see what was obviously unseen to me before. After what felt like five minutes but couldn't have been more than one, I opened my eyes, and there before me stood a very pale and wispy version of my mother. Her voice came clear this time, "Amara remain calm, and do not touch me." she said forcefully. "I am still part of the dead, but you possess the same gift I did, you are an Anchor." Now it is important that you remember that I was not yet a yearling, and my mother who had not even 24 hours ago stood before me, albeit a little different but at that time I could not comprehend that she was dead, because she was so clearly alive. "Mother!" I cried out in joy I jumped towards her and then she was gone and the wispy grey world I had entered disappeared. "Mother?!?" I called. Her whispering call did not return, "MOTHER?!!?" I tried again and still nothing. My joy crumbled away from me in seconds, torn down by the grief that had returned to my heart with my mother's sudden disappearance. I curled into a tiny ball, as if I were curled up against her, and cried myself to sleep.
*****
She nuzzled my cheek as she always did, when she wanted to wake me up. I pushed my head against it relishing in what love I could recieve in my dreams. "Wake up Amara." her whispy voice fluttered into my ear, "Wake Up." the force of the second opened my eyes, it was as if she had yelled it in my mind. I looked around confused for a moment before I realized I was back in this strange world of grey and smoke. "Mother?" I asked into the wisps. "Get up Amara. You must understand before I go." I panicked she could not leave me again, I had just gotten her back. "Go where?" I asked terrified of the answer, "You know where I must go Amara, I am dead." There it was the dreaded D word, the one I had been avoiding saying both inside of my head and outloud, because I believed if I did not acknowledge the fact that she was gone she couldn't be, and so far it had been working, because there she was right in front of me. "Amara listen to me quickly." my mother ordered. I forced myself to look into her eyes, the eyes which I shared with her. "You are what allows us to pass over to the greener pasture, you anchor the two worlds together, you are sorta like a bridge darling." she explained. "All you have to do is let me and spirits like me pass through, so that we do not get trapped in the void. Do you understand?" she asked and I froze because I truly didn't understand, it was coming at me so quickly that I wondered if I could even remember half of what she was saying after she had left me. "All you have to do Amara is open up your heart to me, and imagine that your heart holds the greener pastures, and that once I touch you I will transported there." I nodded my head in understanding and did as I was told, concetrating on opening up my heart my mother, and sending her to greener pastures. It was hard because I didn't want to say goodbye to her, I just wanted to have my mom again. I also didn't want to trap her in the void so I hoped and wished that made it there safely. I noticed then that my entire body started to glow, that's when I saw my mother's eyes, they were a sparkling purple, nothing like mine anymore. "Be strong my little Amara, and remember that I am always in your heart." her voice choked on the last word and her eyes welled up as mine had too. She gave me one last nuzzle, and the light my body had given off was gone, I was my normal colour and in my normal world again as tears started to roll down my face. "Goodbye mother..." I whispered as the tears started to flow and my breathes started to come in heaves. The last thing I remember from that night was her lingering nuzzle on my cheek.
by hiraeth + hound » Thu Jul 23, 2015 8:48 pm 
Dalgony 
