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Your Name: Beejoux
Name of Newbie: Redbud-Tree
Why are you nominating this newbie?: Super nice, very active. It'd be nice if she could get her hands on something not aquatic.
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-first entry on the 11th for ~Twilight...Angel~(page 1)

Your Name: stormflower
Name of Newbie: Redbud-Tree
Why are you nominating this newbie?: She has been around the shop for awhile now and though shy she remains dedicated and nice to all and does not complain when she does not win in a raffle and remains positive for the next one and congratulates the winners. She would be a welcome member to our family.
Do they meet the below newbie definition?: yes indeed ^^

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*as a side note her name that I choose, Antiga, means old in Catalan*


Antiga slowly walked up to the entrance of the village said to contain the hunters of her ancesters, The Kawani Village. She also wore a cloak as to try and divert attention away from her appearence. As she took a step through, the gulped hard, not sure what she should expect. Not sure if there may be some kind of gaurd or ambush waiting for her as she continued in.

Now, with her entire body inside the village, Antiga took a better look around. Nothing seemed to be jumping out at her or calling any sort of attention to her.
"So far so good," She said as she let out a small sigh of relief.
As she walked into the village a little further, she took in all the different smells around her. As Antiga bent over to smell what seemed to be some kind of offering laid out, a couple of foals burts out from around the corner of a building, startling her. In turn, causing her to take a few steps back and trip a little on her cloak. As she continued to slowly back away from the foals, who had stopped running when they heard her gasp, Antiga's cloak slowly fell off of her and onto the ground. "Oh, no!" She gasped, trying to pull it back up and over her. Suddenly, she heard the two foals laughing, she stopped trying to pull at her cloak to stare over at them.
"What is wrong with you?" They stopped laughing for a second, starting back at her with smiles plastered on their face.
"Aren't you going to alert someone I'm here or something?" She looked them over, showing her confusion as to why they didn't scream or yell... or even just attack her themselves on her face.
One of the foals, bearing four beautiful black wings stepped closer to her, tilting his head to the side.
"Why would we do something like that? Are you royalty or something?" She bent her head down to look into his clear light blue eyes.
"No... I just thought.... nevermind..." She sighed a bit, clearly this foal didn't understand, which was good for her. His friend stepped foreward, stopping next to the black winged foal, snickering a bit,
"You're funny." He looked at her with fiery red eyes and baring sharp teeth. Feeling slightly threatened Antiga stepped back a bit, ruffling her wings. The foals had already turned around, trotting off in the direction of what she believed to be the main square of the village.

Antiga feared the village a little less now, knowing that she had already escaped what could have been a vicious attack.
"Maybe they've forgotten what we look like?" Now walking with a bit more confidence, she abandoned her cloak.

As she walked a bit closer to the middle of the village, she saw more two-leggers, or humans as they are called, and even more different kinds of Soquili. She attempted to keep her eye on everything that was moving, but before she knew it, there was a two-legger standing right in front of her, holding out it's hand. She cocked her head a bit, gazing suspiciously at the two-legger before looking to see what it held out in it's hand.
"An apple!" As she realized what it was, she sniffed it, trying to make sure that there was nothing bad going on with it. When she was satisfied, she took the apple, eating it in one bite. The two-legger giggled at her and then, the most unexpected thing happened, it PATTED Antiga! She was so stunned that she just stood there, unsure as to what to do next as the two-legger waved at her and skipped away. She lightly fluffed out her wings, deciding to herself that maybe, just maybe, this place isn't as bad as she thought. Before she made any kind of final thoughts on it though, she decided it would be best to continue looking around.

As she took a quick peek into an open window, someone reached out and lightly touched her nose. She pulled away and continued around the side of the house, thinking that she might see the two-legger that did it. As she rounded the house, she saw a beautiful cream and black colored stallion bearing a horn. He smiled at her, walking toward her down the alley. As he walked past her, he nodded at her a bit, continuing on his way down the street, walking away and dissapearing into another alley.

Antiga walked a bit further. As she walked past what slightly resembled some type of holding pen for animals, she happened to see a bucket of water. Upon seeing it, she decided that she was actually rather thirsty. Walking over to it, she sniffed the entire bucket until she was sure that it wasn't some kind of trap of distraction, then sniffed the water to make sure that there wasn't anything weird going on with it. Happy with how it smelled she happily started to gulp down the water. Before long, she felt her side being lightly poked. She cautiously looked up from the bucket, seeing a slightly smaller than average mare smiling sweetly at her.
"I don't think I've seen you around here before," She said, still smiling
"Oh no..." Antiga thought as she backed away from the mare a bit. "it was all a trap... they're going to get me now..." The mare just continued to smile, not noticing how frightened she seemed to make Antiga.
"I just wanted to greet you and see if you needed any help getting around." Antiga's jaw nearly dropped to the ground, amazing at how... nice... this mare seemed to be. She slowly shook her head no, the stunned expression on her face not seeming to fade. The mare giggled a bit as she saw it,
"Well, if you do need anything, don't be afraid to ask anyone around." With that, she winked a beautfully green eye, turning around to walk away, her white coat shimmering gold in the sun. Antiga wasn't sure what kind of Soquili that mare could possibly be, but there was no denying her beauty.

Antiga decided, after a good stretch, that she should continue on again, seeing anything else that there might be to see. Slowly continuing down the street, taking in all the Soquili and two-leggers surrounding her, an interresting smell caught a hold of her nose. She looked around a bit, finding the source to be a bush with some strange looking black berries on it. Although she had never seen these kinds of berries before, the wonderful smell made her stomach rumble. She decided that they couldn't be that bad if they smelled so good, sticking her nose right into the bush and licking at the berries happily. These berried weren't part of her usual diet, but they certainly were delicious. As she continued to eat, she came nose to nose with what looked like a canine. She backed out of the bush, startled by the strange looking stallion, who then lifted up his head. As she looked him over a bit closer, she realized that what she thought looked like a canine nose, was actually just smudging from the berries they were both just dinning on. Despite her earlier fright, she let out a small giggle. The stallion looked confused until he noticed his nose. Licking it off, he laughed lightly, appoligizeing for his appearence, having been covered from head to hoof in berry stains. He then bowed smally, as wings of what seemed to be made of light, shimmer on his back. Taking his leave, he told her that those berries were delicious and that she should definitly eat some more.

Antiga watched in awe as the stallion walked away, seeing the wings of light one last time as he rounded a corner. Mostly in awe of his bad eating habbits. Antiga quietly wondered to herself how many different Soquili breeds there could possible be in exsistence now. She had never even heard of anything as different as they are in all her years. Looking down the strees she soon realized that she wasn't too far away from the main square now. She could see many different Soquili and familiers walking around with, what seemed like hundreds, of two-leggers. She stood still for a minute, not only because the scene before her stunned her, but because she was unsure as to how she should react to the humans and things around her. Deciding that she was just being silly and paranoid, since all the things she had seen so far today were far from terrible, she strood confindently foreward, right toward the center. Antiga held her head high believing that she should simply be who she in for this new village, seeing what will happen. Maybe she'll learn new things about herself she never understood before.

As she stood near the edge of the crowd, all in the main square, she was simply in awe of all the things going on around her. She saw the little foals from earlier first, one chasing the other around the square and tripping on some poor filly's long snow white hair. Moving a bit more into the crowd, she saw the gorgeous cream and black stallion with the horn. As she took a closer look at him, she noticed he had a long tail with just a tuft of fur at the end of it. Looking back up at his muzzle she saw some pixie-like Soquili perched there, talking to him. As she continued to stare at the pixie, she felt something tickling her tummy. Looking down, she saw a small fox familiar stepping out from beneth her, smiling up awkwardly and appoligizing for not paying attention to where she was going. As Antiga kept her eye on the fox, she saw it prance right up to the berry covered stallion from earlier, his wings made of light sparkling out in the open. He was all cleaned up now and looked stunning with a rainbow flecked white coat. She noticed a two-legger beside him, brushind his fur as the little fox snugggled up to his legs. As she turned her head to look around once again, she came muzzle to muzzle with the same stunning green eyes from earlier. She looked a bit closer, stepping back and realized it was the mare with the beautiful gold flecked coat from earlier. The mare smiled as she lightly nosed Antiga's muzzle. Antiga blushed lightly, not expecting the gesture.
"I see you found the main square with no problem," The mare said, smiling brighter than the sun itself. Antiga nodded a bit, becoming shy around her seemingly new found friend. The mare winked, lightly bumping her rump into Antiga's. Antiga smiled and took the mares hint, starting to walk further into the square with her, prepared to meet whoever else she could form a nice little friendship with. And, maybe, learn a little more about these new breeds of Soquili and the two-leggers who are nothing like those of her ancesters. Perhaps she could even find a two-legger of her own to brush her feathers.
"yeah... that would be nice..." The mare smiled at Antiga again as they walked toward the rainbow flecked stallion, who was smiling broadly at them both.


*okay, it turned out long, but I hope that's okay. I was enjoying creating the story and everything <3*

Chalin galloped before gliding yet again she had done this most of her way. The village seemed no where. Of course it was rumors they could be wrong. But as the village finally came into sight she sighed. It was about time, settling down fully to a stop at the edge she stared into the village.

It was busy at first all she seen was soquili, finally she took a step nothing gained from just sitting around. Of course that was a bad idea after it started. As she headed farther into what she assumed was the center not only was it full of soquili but 2 legged, rumors refereed to them as humans. She snorted and shook her head these soquili accepted the humans as if they were in fact the same. Soquilis were rubbed with strange tools, tails and manes were braided treats were given....... she had to remember to swallow as the drool pooled in her mouth.

Finally she started moving again pausing to watch this and that before one of the humans approached her.
"would you like to be brushed?" She held out one of those items Chalin had seen used on the others, now she was curious what was so great about it.

Nodding she waited for the human to work, the moment the brush touched her skin she felt like melting. The sensation the power the love, it was all there. If she had been a cat she have purred. But before she knew it she was done. She turned back to the human a sad look on her face. That sent the person giggling as if she knew what was on Chalin's mind.

Holding out a apple she smiled "sorry its all over."

With pain Chalin finally headed on already she had so much to tell hers, they were wrong legends talked about them like they were monsters. Wiping bits of apple off her beak she turned and started heading out the way she had come. "Maybe just a bit longer." She turned back to the girl that had brushed her, "cause that felt good." She had been speaking to her self but quickly blushed as soquili all over snickered.

There was so much more to try she couldn't leave yet. With that she turned and headed back in.

Still waiting on Sheacka. I'll PM her.