Beneath your feet is snowgrass and egg & bacon bushes grow sporadically throughout the way.
In the distance you can see the purple and blue ranges, rocky scrubland extending before them. The ribbon gums give way to shorter vegetation to the East.
There is a soft rustle behind you and you turn to see a strange equine standing behind you.She is the same soft brown as the tree bark and the streaky nature of her mane & tail make her blend into her surroundings surprisingly well.
Shyly she bobs her head in greetings to you the coloured stones hung from her horns clacking aginst the dark ivory spires.
"Ehllo." The mare smiles timidly.
"I am called Seiro'Gishoud, it means 'Orange Flower' in the native tongue of my parents. Darkhorse fostered me as a young foal so I only have slight memories of them now...." She pauses a moment thoughtfully then continues.
"Rakishi are a mixture of deer and horse, a little like a Pah'llock I suppose, though our species are completly unrelated. We come from the Willow Fields of Lands of Fate."
She flips her tail. "I am aligned with the houses of Earth and Dance, attuned to not only nature around me but also the rhythm of the earth itself."
She smiles shyly,bobs her head once more and melts back into the trees. Indeed her graceful stride seems to imitate the very dance of the bark streamers that catch the wind here.
In next to no time she is gone, leaving you to choose your path: To the North West, out into the scrublands, back into the marshes or South towards the hub mountain where you an make out a small cave.
As you are about to leave you notice, enchanted into a stone, the graven legend:
Senshi'Rahla x Ornai'Tark
Genotype
Coat: SS, ds
Mane: DS, sd
Tail: h, d*
ForeFeet: H, d
HindFeet: H, d
Horns: g, d*
Mutation: N, y