by leverage » Sun Jan 04, 2015 3:47 am
Username: Kiokami
Equid Name: Aitheria "The wind"
Gender: Mare
Height: 12.2 hh
Dream: I open my eyes, or at least I believe I open my eyes, to a blackness like the wings of a raven. The air around me is mobile but soundless; I am alone here. I shut my eyes, and open them again- there is no change either way. The darkness is not an attack, nor is it a void- it is open, free, a feeling of forever there around me in the gently moving air, a forever I cannot see but I can feel it like you can feel the sun on your back. Whatever this is, I feel as if anything could happen to me here, and nothing could possibly hold me back.
Curiously, I take a single step forward, and when my hoof touches the ground that is somehow both smooth and seemingly missing from under me, my eyes are touched by a gently light from under my foot. I life my foot, searching for what I stepped on, but what I find under my feet is not a stone nor a creature but a star, glowing beside me, a pinprick of light just somehow so much brighter than that. It is a sun, a soul, a star under me, as if my own hoof-print has summoned this light into existence. I place my hoof down again, a little bit beyond the star, and another light erupts from there. Though there is still darkness all around, there is now light by me, my own glowing path of my own creation to guide my way home.
Without thinking, I move forward, a slow walk. My eyes are on the ground still, watching the stars glow gently, a rainbow of whites and yellows and blues and even a hint of green. It isn’t long before I’ve made a path, so long I can’t see where I started- did I really move that far? I don’t seem to recall it, but the glowing path stretches for miles. Now the starts on what must be the ground light up a little more, I can see gently swirling blue and black behind me, as if the starts are lighting up not just the ground and me but this whole world. It is all around me, the night sky, and I am part of it, indivisible from the stars themselves. I cannot help myself but to gallop!
Faster and faster I move, and the stars keep appearing, and this world grows brighter and brighter around me, and I can see more. I stretch my legs out from under me, further and further as if I am jumping galaxies, bridging constellations, running past the moon’s very orbit! Around me is everything, and yet I am all- and the stars are there for me, to guide me, basking their light. I pant in the air, cool yet vibrant, though I am not tired but instead feel rejuvenated, and more so the faster I move. So I move faster, a race against the shooting stars, one I can do nothing but win!
All at once, the stars from my feet are all around me, then they are beside me- arranging themselves in constellations. Fiery forms around me, equids of every side painted of the moonlight itself! Even in my run I can see their moonlight muscles pulsing beside me, and feel their hoof-beats echo beside my own like a song. They race beside me, infinite in their number, a herd of power and might that can wash away any dusk into the night itself- and here I am, leading the charge! For a magical moment, I feel on top of the world, above it all- and I wonder for a moment if I can fly. The next time my hooves are off the ground, I find I can.
When I go to take my next step, my hooves find nothing, and yet everything, and there is nothing below me. The starts around me, my own galaxy, as I leave the ground that held me for so long, and the stallions and mares made of stars come as well, and I am taking them with me, my own starlight ancestors. I am everything, and everything is beside me. The whole world- every sound, every sight, every experience the world hold to offer- is beside me, and for a moment, I am free, I am everything. I am all.
Awake, asleep, I don’t know. All I know is that, for a moment, I became the night.
Word count: 747
Please do not contact me about selling my WMEs or their breeding slots. I am not interested in selling and will not reply.