08-05-2016, 02:02 PM
Flight
"You can't be serious?" I spoke incredulously, looking at Nightmare Moon. We were at the balcony's edge at the moment, overlooking the forest in the late summer night. Even at night it was still fairly warm, insects chirping away far below in the deep green of nature. Warm wind blew through my air slightly as I folded my arms across my chest. Nightmare playfully cocked a fine eyebrow with a small smile on her lips, rings ruffling somewhat before she replied to question snarkily: "Do I appear to be the joking type to you?"
"In a subtlety sadistic way, yes."
"Have I ever hurt you?"
"No."
"Precisely my point."
"I still hate flying though, that's MY point."
Her head cocked to the side a bit, an ear flicked in thought. "You don't trust me?"
"No, of course I do," I replied swiftly, fearing I'd given off the wrong idea of why I didn't want to fly. It really wasn't that I didn't trust her. I trusted Nightmare Moon more than I trusted anyone else in the entire world, more than I had my entire life really. Still didn't change the fact I hated flying though. It'd never been anything I enjoyed and never saw a reason as to why that could possibly change.
"Then hold on and trust me," her regal horn was surrounded by a purple aura as she levitated my body gently into the air and onto her awaiting back. Nightmare was about equal in height to me, though to be fair the horn added a bit and she was strong so she gave no indication I even weighed a thing. I felt my cheeks flush as I tightened my grip on her sides with legs and held on to her with my hands, feeling the toned muscle of her frame as placed her weight on her long legs, beautiful black wings flaring out in a magnificent display and took to the air.
I gave a sharp breath and my heart beat like a jackhammer in my sternum and I held on tighter involuntarily as we ascended. Her ethereal, blue, eternally shimmering mane flowed behind her, the hair caressing my arm and coiled around me somewhat in reassurance. The wind whipped past us faster than I thought it would and I could smell the foreign sweetness of the air mixing with nature below us. I hadn't realized I'd clenched my eyes shut for the whole thing and cautiously opened them. We were air born, but not too high up. The trees looked fairly small beneath us, and turning my gaze upward the stars seemed closer than they ever had before. I had a half a mind to reach out with a hand pluck one out of the sky, feel its heat in my hands as its light burned away, hidden in my grasp.
In this moment it seemed entirely possible.
The sky was cloudless tonight, it occurred to me passingly perhaps she had something to do with that. Her wings flapped every few seconds or so but she seemed to rely primarily on air currents. Probably trying not to go too high.
"So?" She looked back me mischievously, teal eye glinting in the darkness, "it's not that bad hm?"
I chuckled, my grip had relaxed and I only just now noticed my heart had stopped racing for dear life. "No."
Nightmare Moon smiled before refocusing her attention ahead. A rock ravine of sorts lay ahead and with another great flap of her feathered wings lifted up higher so we were just above its uneven entrance. Looking down I observed as we passed over it, the jagged line carved into the earth by the elements and time itself shifting and changing before every blink. Like how one of those yellow or white lines in roads pass by in a blur during a car ride should one choose to look out the window. The few trees that dotted the land here passed by in a similar manner until we came to its end.
Now we overlooked a gigantic lake. A deep, dark blue enclosed by rocks and the forest. So isolated and scenery. Unreal, even. She dipped downwards at it, to both our pleasures I did not tense up as we now came within inches towards the body of water. With a calculated tip of her body, a wingtip sliced through its undisturbed surface, droplets spraying about freely before rejoining the mass they had been carved out of.
Out of my own curiosity I lightly shifted my own weight, allowing the toe of my right shoe to cut into the water as well, a few droplets landing on my forearm. I did not wipe the off. I ran a hand along her neck for a moment as she lifted us up once more for a few seconds longer, her armored hooves delicately connecting with solid earth again.
I found myself laughing now, jovially as I swung a leg free. Exhilaration coursed through my veins like hot lighting, my legs felt unsteady but it was a strangely elevating feeling. I felt my back lean against her shoulder as I realized I'd nearly tipped over. She grinned, flashing me a white, sharp teeth.
"You alright there?"
"Yeah, just-wow. That was...that was incredible Nightmare." I had my face turned to the night sky now, the hundreds of burning stars seemed to shine all the brighter, beckoning us back to their embrace.
"Told you," she chuckled, playfully nudging me, the cold armor brushing against my skin.
"Is flying always so...liberating?" We sat down in the grass simultaneously my body resting against her, feeling her mane coil around my wrist affectionately, her tail following suite with my right leg.
"With you? Yes, it is."
I smiled, holding a hoof, the warmth of body and softness of her jet black fur always so loving and familiar.
"Can we do that again soon?"
Nightmare beamed at me playfully, eyes half lidded.
"How do you think we're going to return home?"
"You can't be serious?" I spoke incredulously, looking at Nightmare Moon. We were at the balcony's edge at the moment, overlooking the forest in the late summer night. Even at night it was still fairly warm, insects chirping away far below in the deep green of nature. Warm wind blew through my air slightly as I folded my arms across my chest. Nightmare playfully cocked a fine eyebrow with a small smile on her lips, rings ruffling somewhat before she replied to question snarkily: "Do I appear to be the joking type to you?"
"In a subtlety sadistic way, yes."
"Have I ever hurt you?"
"No."
"Precisely my point."
"I still hate flying though, that's MY point."
Her head cocked to the side a bit, an ear flicked in thought. "You don't trust me?"
"No, of course I do," I replied swiftly, fearing I'd given off the wrong idea of why I didn't want to fly. It really wasn't that I didn't trust her. I trusted Nightmare Moon more than I trusted anyone else in the entire world, more than I had my entire life really. Still didn't change the fact I hated flying though. It'd never been anything I enjoyed and never saw a reason as to why that could possibly change.
"Then hold on and trust me," her regal horn was surrounded by a purple aura as she levitated my body gently into the air and onto her awaiting back. Nightmare was about equal in height to me, though to be fair the horn added a bit and she was strong so she gave no indication I even weighed a thing. I felt my cheeks flush as I tightened my grip on her sides with legs and held on to her with my hands, feeling the toned muscle of her frame as placed her weight on her long legs, beautiful black wings flaring out in a magnificent display and took to the air.
I gave a sharp breath and my heart beat like a jackhammer in my sternum and I held on tighter involuntarily as we ascended. Her ethereal, blue, eternally shimmering mane flowed behind her, the hair caressing my arm and coiled around me somewhat in reassurance. The wind whipped past us faster than I thought it would and I could smell the foreign sweetness of the air mixing with nature below us. I hadn't realized I'd clenched my eyes shut for the whole thing and cautiously opened them. We were air born, but not too high up. The trees looked fairly small beneath us, and turning my gaze upward the stars seemed closer than they ever had before. I had a half a mind to reach out with a hand pluck one out of the sky, feel its heat in my hands as its light burned away, hidden in my grasp.
In this moment it seemed entirely possible.
The sky was cloudless tonight, it occurred to me passingly perhaps she had something to do with that. Her wings flapped every few seconds or so but she seemed to rely primarily on air currents. Probably trying not to go too high.
"So?" She looked back me mischievously, teal eye glinting in the darkness, "it's not that bad hm?"
I chuckled, my grip had relaxed and I only just now noticed my heart had stopped racing for dear life. "No."
Nightmare Moon smiled before refocusing her attention ahead. A rock ravine of sorts lay ahead and with another great flap of her feathered wings lifted up higher so we were just above its uneven entrance. Looking down I observed as we passed over it, the jagged line carved into the earth by the elements and time itself shifting and changing before every blink. Like how one of those yellow or white lines in roads pass by in a blur during a car ride should one choose to look out the window. The few trees that dotted the land here passed by in a similar manner until we came to its end.
Now we overlooked a gigantic lake. A deep, dark blue enclosed by rocks and the forest. So isolated and scenery. Unreal, even. She dipped downwards at it, to both our pleasures I did not tense up as we now came within inches towards the body of water. With a calculated tip of her body, a wingtip sliced through its undisturbed surface, droplets spraying about freely before rejoining the mass they had been carved out of.
Out of my own curiosity I lightly shifted my own weight, allowing the toe of my right shoe to cut into the water as well, a few droplets landing on my forearm. I did not wipe the off. I ran a hand along her neck for a moment as she lifted us up once more for a few seconds longer, her armored hooves delicately connecting with solid earth again.
I found myself laughing now, jovially as I swung a leg free. Exhilaration coursed through my veins like hot lighting, my legs felt unsteady but it was a strangely elevating feeling. I felt my back lean against her shoulder as I realized I'd nearly tipped over. She grinned, flashing me a white, sharp teeth.
"You alright there?"
"Yeah, just-wow. That was...that was incredible Nightmare." I had my face turned to the night sky now, the hundreds of burning stars seemed to shine all the brighter, beckoning us back to their embrace.
"Told you," she chuckled, playfully nudging me, the cold armor brushing against my skin.
"Is flying always so...liberating?" We sat down in the grass simultaneously my body resting against her, feeling her mane coil around my wrist affectionately, her tail following suite with my right leg.
"With you? Yes, it is."
I smiled, holding a hoof, the warmth of body and softness of her jet black fur always so loving and familiar.
"Can we do that again soon?"
Nightmare beamed at me playfully, eyes half lidded.
"How do you think we're going to return home?"