The Academy: don't fart then

The roan stood, gazing into the forlorn skies pregnant with rain clouds. She stood, staring but unseeing as the world past by her and she submerged herself in her memories, in her chamber of thoughts which echoed with a lonely misery. He was drowning her, he was breaking her and she was struggling to fight away from him, to make this life her own. But she was beginning to run out of air, she was slipping, and he pulled her down, down down into the blue and the cold and the wet. Into the dark, the swallowing dark.

She hears her name. Like a faint light it beckons her back. Blinking into the gray world, Huyana’s black head turns, amber eyes prodding the surroundings until she finds the similarly marked mare embarking towards her, eyes on fire with curious hunger. A smile at once spreads across Huyana’s lips, for she knows the spark well, knows the hunger for even now she starves and thirsts and lusts and hunts for knowledge and understanding. Teacher. It felt like not too long ago she had been in this mare’s footsteps, standing before her teacher, the golden Courage. Courage was a seer now, and Huyana an apprentice. She sighed, humbled by change’s flowing course.

”Hello, Indira.” She inclines her head, body turning to face the mare so her neck wouldn’t be curled around her shoulder. Huyana no longer balked at the idea of using her newest ability of poking through minds. She understood now the value and importance and power of the trait. It no longer frightened her as she could flex its control with ease, delving as deep or as lightly as she desired. She ony used it when she felt it would save mundane things, or if she was particularly greedy and someone was keeping something vital or important to her. She would not abuse it…much. She enjoyed the power of it. Shaking her head, sending her black mane across her nape, she settled into a relaxed position. They had much to discuss, the element was a complex place full of many mysteries. Huyana had to be careful not to ramble, so eager to explain everything at once. It would be so much easier if Indira could read her mind too, but of course she had to earn it through this manner, as all did.

”I’m Huyana, as I’m sure you know. I’m a water apprentice in Solira, and I hope you’ll find me a valuable source to your curious mind.” She smiled knowingly, the grin stretching into her calm eyes. ”I’m not sure what Hypatia has told you, she knows more than I, but the herd life keeps her busy. What do you wish to know?” Huyana’s water hummed within her, occasionally dripping from her mane or pooling around her hooves. It could not feel anything within this mare, Huyana had been equally void upon meeting Courage who danced with fire and water. It was remarkable to Huyana. ”And which element do you intend to choose?” Not that you really chose, they picked you.

Water II - Bullet Rain - Apprentice - Solira