The long walk from visiting her grandparents had left Zaiella standing still along one of the main streams she would have to cross on her way home, enjoying the cool feel of the passing water along her hooves as she day-dreamed. Slowly but surely time was catching up to her as it wasn’t as easy to make the trip back and forth in a day or so without multiple resting spots. How had it snuck up so quickly that her legs ached with the exertion, but she was still unwilling to fly the distance. ‘It probably would be easier,’ Her mind lectured her as she dropped her head to the stream and drank down the cool waters. However as much as logic would prevail that she could make it there within a day with the help of the wind and cutting through the clear skies above; habit and comfort dictated she take the long tiring road. Doing the trip in the comfort of spring spared her the scalding summer sun on her back across the flatlands at least. Her father would be so disappointed to hear she was already sore and winded, surely, he would begin to take her for long runs as he did religiously every morning. He had little trouble making it to his parent’s mountainous home in record time…as in he was constantly trying to beat his own personal record.
It wasn’t her cup of tea to say the least.
Her new young aunts were so adorable, she had loved playing with them and getting to know them under her grandparents’ watchful eyes. Laying with them as they listened to Twilight and Cosette reminisce about their younger years made her feel like she was a little filly again, sitting with Zendaiya and Zigmund all over again. Yet they were all adults now, and the years had long since passed. “At least its all flat from here on in.” She smiled and turned to look across the meadow to all the budding spring flowers, perhaps it wasn’t so bad she slowed down in her age – she noticed more and more the little changes in the world around her now that she wasn’t running past them to keep up in childish glee.
It did, however, make it a bit lonely along these familiar long solo trips she took to visit her family spread to the wind.
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