You venture out into the open meadows, breathing in the scent of new grasses and wildflowers. Ahead the forest edge undulates, creating pockets of isolated meadow.
Occassionally you can see a distant fourlegged shape amble across the open in the, grazing.
Nearby there is a rustle and you turn your attention to the strange pegasai, browsing off a clump of snowgrass. As it sees you it pauses, finishes it's mouthful and ambles over.
Crekitty, guardian of the Meadowlands. DO NOT TAKE His voice is a deep booming tone, for with a voice like that the creature must surely be a he! And greets you heartily and he introduces himself as Crehsohrin.
The tall beast is obvioulsy well spoken and begins to inform you in a most scholarly tone on the meadow inhabitants you are momentarily distracted by a flash of orange and yellow as a butterfly floats past. Crehsohrin seems to notice it as well as his voice faulters, an ear flicks and his long white whiskers begin to twitch. For a moment it seems as though he's mentally fighting something then his eyes shift from a light blue to a green.
"Fluttery thing!" She, for it is certainly a females voice, cries out, suddenly frisking and leaping at a butterfly, hir eyes flashing green.
"Cre-kitty catch fluttery thing!"
Crehsohrin catches it in midair in hir mouth, crouching down cat like to eat it with gusto.
Mid-chew sHe freezes, hir now blue again eyes wide, and swallows queasily.
"I just ate something alive didn't I...?!" He says and shudders, his tail lashing from side to side in distress.
He shudders once more and whimpers ears flat, worried you wrap your arms arouns his neck and he hides his long, tan face against you, all his earlier composure lost.
In barely a whisper he speaks, his voice muffled all the more by your shirt.
"I keep trying to convince myself I'm still Crehsohrin but I am not... Kitanya and I are constantly struggling to be in control..." He shudders once more. "You cannot understand how it is to have your identity forced to remain in the same vessel as that of another and maintain one's sanity ...she and I were caught in a mage storm that swept from the Tir's waste through our own worlds.
One minute I was in the air, soaring strong to my favorite alpine grazing ledge, the next I was buffetted into oblivion by a sour scented wind. When I.. We awoke we were this.."

There is a comforting pur deep in hir throat and Crekitty relaxes, though by hir blue eyes the pegasus is still in dominance. Hir frame sags a little and sHe leans on you and sighs, nodding to hirself. "Alright, share but no eating wriggling things." Crehsohrin's voice rumbles. One of hir eyes alters to green again.
Crekitty's whiskers twitch and in a new voice, one which puts you in mind of something crouching in bushes and basking in sunlight, speaks.
"At last you let me forwards a little. The number of times I've had to wait until you were off guard to so much as see daylight..." Hir ears drop in apology and Crehsohrin's voice is remorseful. "I hadn't realised what sheer isolation I had kept you in..." His voice trails off as a sinuous shrug ripples over hir shoulders and Kitanya replies. "What is done is done and of no importance as long as it doesn't happen again."
Both eyes refocus on you and the creature Crekitty, for the first time speaks in it's own voice, an amalgamation of the pegasus and leopard. "We are new to the Tir, both of us. I.." Crehsohrin's voice becomes stronger "do not think we could fit any where else now... and I" Kitanya takes over. "Could not care less."
"Darkhorse made open her offer of home for us both here while we try and sort out our differences..." Crekitty's tail lashes. "And we have agreed to be guardian for the meadow lands now that Saratoga has left."
The dual natured creature cocks it's ears, listening to the wind for a moment intently, then bobs it's head politely and moves away in a stride that is part lope, part canter, springing into the air catlike to patrol the lands under hir protection.
From here you could go back into the forest, towards the stream you can hear bubbling nearby, further into the meadows or across towards the large cave you can see in the mountainside that flanks the far side of the meadow.

Crekitty is dearly mine if you steal Hir I will be most incensed,
and you will find yourself with one bloodied and furious hippogryph at your throat screaming for justice
~Darkhorse