11-11-2016, 01:53 PM
The Waterfall
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The sun's dying rays still shone in the sky, providing a moody but pleasant effect as we crossed through some bushes and falling leaves, I took the time to flick a leaf off my leg before I noticed the sound of rushing water reached my ears. I looked, pushing my glasses back up on my face properly to notice Nightmare Rarity had vanished, I blinked just to make certain my eyes weren't deceiving me.
"Nightmare?" I called out, ducking under some branches to be greeted by the sight of the base of a waterfall. Mist hung in the cool air and the singing of frogs on the rocks mingled with the eternal sound of flowing water. It was a deep frothing white color, shifting into a deep blue as it rippled into a softer form. Stars were beginning to reflect in the surface of the stiller part of the waterfall's base met seamlessly with the rocks. The grass was a lush, bright green and gleamed with a faint moisture.
I about jumped out of my skin when I felt something warm lick the back of my neck, I yelped and shifted away to turn and get a good look at...her. Nightmare Rarity hung upside down a strong, overhanging branch light a bat, her hair flowing downwards as a result, but still beautiful and glinting like the darkened sky. She smirked, showing sharp, predatory teeth, an enticing chuckle emitted from her.
"Was that really necessary?" I grunted, absently rubbing the back of my neck, feeling heated but playful all the same. She shrugged, which was a surreal sight upside down and grinned wider at me.
"What can I say? You taste good."
I felt my cheeks get hotter at that remark, which her eyes surely noticed as I saw her give me a knowing, half lidded stare.
"Uhhh...how're you doing that?" I asked, finally acknowledging her upside down presence.
"Magic."
"Of course."
Gently she detached and gracefully allowed her hooves to meet the grassy earth once more, taking a moment to shake a bit of her mane out of her face. I saw the faintest trail of flowing shadow drift from as her swung for a few brief seconds, gifting my eyes with her radiance.
"What do you think?" She gestured towards the waterfall with a black hoof, drawing my attention away from her and returning it to the water itself. "It's beautiful, Nightmare, what is it called."
"It has no name, few know of it to begin with." Her should brushed against me, causing a pleasurable rush through my veins at the familiar contact of fur on skin. "It's been around for a millennia, unchanged. Always flowing. A constant."
I smiled, feeling an underlying meaning behind her choice of words, feeling their truth resonate in my heart warmly, it built in the center before bursting out to spread and swim freely forever. I hadn't notice I had been running a free hand through her silky mane and down her neck for several minutes, it was instinctual now.
There was a bit of a chill, but neither of us paid it any heed. This was our moment, another to be experienced as it was shared between us.
We sat near the edge, looking into the water to see the sky reflecting back us, like thousands of tiny stars had made their new home within the water itself, she dipped a hoof in it gently, sending dozens of sift ripples across the surface until they simply faded away. Drawing it along the water and bring it back up, her horn glowing with magical energy, droplets falling turning to small, perfect sapphires. They floated silently in the misty air, gleaming from the light of her horn. She took my right hand with a hoof, turning my palm upward and allowed the sapphires to fall into my hand. My amazed, breathless laugh made her smile at me as I looked at them, six beautiful gems.
Water immortalized in my hand, I closed my fingers over them, my left enclosing over my right as I held them. This ancient water, transformed into gems.
Another moment carefully frozen in the waterfall of time.
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The sun's dying rays still shone in the sky, providing a moody but pleasant effect as we crossed through some bushes and falling leaves, I took the time to flick a leaf off my leg before I noticed the sound of rushing water reached my ears. I looked, pushing my glasses back up on my face properly to notice Nightmare Rarity had vanished, I blinked just to make certain my eyes weren't deceiving me.
"Nightmare?" I called out, ducking under some branches to be greeted by the sight of the base of a waterfall. Mist hung in the cool air and the singing of frogs on the rocks mingled with the eternal sound of flowing water. It was a deep frothing white color, shifting into a deep blue as it rippled into a softer form. Stars were beginning to reflect in the surface of the stiller part of the waterfall's base met seamlessly with the rocks. The grass was a lush, bright green and gleamed with a faint moisture.
I about jumped out of my skin when I felt something warm lick the back of my neck, I yelped and shifted away to turn and get a good look at...her. Nightmare Rarity hung upside down a strong, overhanging branch light a bat, her hair flowing downwards as a result, but still beautiful and glinting like the darkened sky. She smirked, showing sharp, predatory teeth, an enticing chuckle emitted from her.
"Was that really necessary?" I grunted, absently rubbing the back of my neck, feeling heated but playful all the same. She shrugged, which was a surreal sight upside down and grinned wider at me.
"What can I say? You taste good."
I felt my cheeks get hotter at that remark, which her eyes surely noticed as I saw her give me a knowing, half lidded stare.
"Uhhh...how're you doing that?" I asked, finally acknowledging her upside down presence.
"Magic."
"Of course."
Gently she detached and gracefully allowed her hooves to meet the grassy earth once more, taking a moment to shake a bit of her mane out of her face. I saw the faintest trail of flowing shadow drift from as her swung for a few brief seconds, gifting my eyes with her radiance.
"What do you think?" She gestured towards the waterfall with a black hoof, drawing my attention away from her and returning it to the water itself. "It's beautiful, Nightmare, what is it called."
"It has no name, few know of it to begin with." Her should brushed against me, causing a pleasurable rush through my veins at the familiar contact of fur on skin. "It's been around for a millennia, unchanged. Always flowing. A constant."
I smiled, feeling an underlying meaning behind her choice of words, feeling their truth resonate in my heart warmly, it built in the center before bursting out to spread and swim freely forever. I hadn't notice I had been running a free hand through her silky mane and down her neck for several minutes, it was instinctual now.
There was a bit of a chill, but neither of us paid it any heed. This was our moment, another to be experienced as it was shared between us.
We sat near the edge, looking into the water to see the sky reflecting back us, like thousands of tiny stars had made their new home within the water itself, she dipped a hoof in it gently, sending dozens of sift ripples across the surface until they simply faded away. Drawing it along the water and bring it back up, her horn glowing with magical energy, droplets falling turning to small, perfect sapphires. They floated silently in the misty air, gleaming from the light of her horn. She took my right hand with a hoof, turning my palm upward and allowed the sapphires to fall into my hand. My amazed, breathless laugh made her smile at me as I looked at them, six beautiful gems.
Water immortalized in my hand, I closed my fingers over them, my left enclosing over my right as I held them. This ancient water, transformed into gems.
Another moment carefully frozen in the waterfall of time.