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 Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 5:45 pm
Pachamama Breeze was having one of the days of all time. She'd had the very longest time - between meeting a bunch of Kalonas to meeting Ayaz and subsequently saving his entire life, Pacha felt like she'd gotten more living done in the past forty-eight hours than she had in perhaps her entire life previous to that time. It almost felt like those two days belonged to someone else entirely, except that Pacha was still the one who had to deal with the consequences of the actions.
The consequences namely being? Her father - Viracocha. He was protective of all his children, and Pacha had spent the entire trip homeward trying to think of how to justify or smooth over her conspicuous absence from the herd.
In the end, she hadn't been able to think of anything. She couldn't imagine trying to sneak in under the radar and avoid it - he was her father, for crying out loud - so she'd decided that she had to squeeze out a little more bravery before she could finally put this whole debacle behind her.
Pacha felt better the second she crossed into her herd lands; here, she was safe. She almost wanted to cry, but she forced herself to remain strong - at least until she got through talking to her father and got somewhere alone for a little while. In the meantime, she forced her exhausted hooves to carry her toward her father, ready to take whatever he had in store for her.
"Hi, Daddy," Pacha greeted him quietly, trying for a sheepish smile. "I'm back."
((wc: 262))
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Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2024 5:01 am
His heart was in his throat as he paced. Pacha had been gone for two days now without word of where she went. Was she captured by the kalona nearby that refuse to let their herd alone? Was she hurt? He hadn't slept since she was found to be gone. He sent out search parties, one of which notified him that she'd been spotted headed for home. It didn't make the anxiety better. Vira had told the scouts to leave her be and let her return to him - he needed to have a word with her first. He was expecting her returning to him, yet when he heard her tiny voice he all but collapsed with relief. Before he could scold her or say anything at all he was upon her, nuzzling her and checking for injuries but mostly just breathing her in with relief and love and he embraced her.
He pulled away after a moment, his face now hardened. "Where were you?! What were you thinking?! You can't just disappear without an escort out into the wilds there are kalona and who knows what else out there just waiting for us to make stupid decisions! You know better than this! What were you out doing?!" He glared at her, waiting for the explanation.
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2024 1:44 pm
Pacha felt tears well in her eyes as her father rushed toward her, and she accepted his nuzzling with relief - it had been small, but there had been a part of her that had been worried that her father would be so furious at her that he wouldn't be worried, but that was evidently not the case.
"I'm sorry," Pacha choked out as soon as she was able. "I didn't mean to be gone for so long, I didn't even mean to be gone hardly at all, Daddy, I promise. I-- I thought I didn't need an escort, because I'm an adult now, but..." Pacha's ears drooped.
"I guess I found an escort on my own," she said, deciding that was the easiest way to explain her chance encounter with Ayaz - because otherwise, she thought that Viracocha might mistakenly think that Ayaz was a villain in this story as well, when in fact that couldn't have been further from the truth. "I met a stallion after... well, I guess I'm getting ahead of myself," she said with a sigh, shaking her head at herself.
Now that she was here, in truth, a wave of exhaustion had swept over her, and she wasn't sure she would be able to string together a coherent story to tell her father - but she also knew that he wasn't exactly just going to let her go about her business until he got some kind of explanation.
"I wandered too far. And I... I did run into a family of... of Kalonas," she said, her voice trembling slightly. "They didn't hurt me, I don't even know if they wanted to, but... I ran from them, and got even more disoriented than I had been to begin-with. But I escaped, and I'm safe! But I was... well, I was lost, and then I stumbled upon Ayaz, the stallion I mentioned, and he escorted me closer to home, and I would've been home yesterday evening, except... well, Daddy," Pacha said, pausing to straighten up slightly.
"He slipped off the edge of a cliff, just fell straight downwards. And he is a big stallion, like you, but with very large wings that were crushed underneath him. He wears - or, I guess I should say, wore a purple hood, and I had to use that to help hoist him up! And I did! I saved him, Daddy!" The brightness, the pride in Pacha's face was unmistakable. "And before we departed this morning, I even healed his wing. Not-- not all the way, of course, but I've never-- I hadn't ever done that before, Daddy, but I did it! I saved him and I healed him. So-- so that's why I'm so late back. I'm-- I'm sorry for scaring you. I wasn't exactly having a wonderful time myself," she added with a weak little chuckle.
"More than anything, I am so happy to be home."
((wc: 484))
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