Hoping to confuse them, Riverglade flew north, instead of going southwest to Canyon Herd's territory. But the sky-herders caught onto her quickly, wrangling her out of the sky, all the while communication using the series of whistles and clicks known in the sky-herder language.
Riverglade wanted to be a sky-herder when she was older, and used to watch them train in Canyon Herd. The agile mares soon noticed her, and had given her some pointers on understanding their language.
But this sounded different. All she could pick up on was that the gray sky-herding mare's name was Graydawn. The rest sounded different, and garbled. She assumed that each herd's sky-herding language was slightly different, so the enemy wouldn't understand them.
Riverglade must have slowed down while realizing this, because the next thing she knew, the small mares were right above her head. Suddenly they swooped down in front of her, blocking her path, and forcing her to turn around. She flew hard and fast, hoping to lose them and head back towards Canyon Herd's lands. That was the problem. She was flying so fast, her eyes were tearing up, and everything was blurry, and she couldn't see where she was going.
Then Cloudfire and a heavily spotted dark bay stallion darted up and grabbed out of the sky.
(sorry this one was so short, I'll probably post another chapter later today)
Descriptions: Canyon Herd
Riverglade: Bold, blue roan filly speckled with dozens of tiny light-brown, gray, and white dots, with dark, dusty-blue wings, dark stormy-gray mane and tail, brown legs.
Lightbreeze: Pretty light palomino filly with gold-tipped pink-champagne colored feathers, thin blaze, and one small hind sock.
Stormwing: Overstallion. Intimidating brown grullo with dark-turquoise feathers, snip on nose, 4 high socks. Brightcloud: Lead mare. Pretty cremello with mix of light and dark pink feathers, thin stripe down face, 4 small socks, and twinkling blue eyes. Flamefire: Top captain in Canyon Herd's Army. Bay roan stallion with blood-red feathers, stripe down face, and two hind white socks. Ashwind: Dark, dapple gray colt with pale-green feathers and silver mane and tail.
Nightshade: Boisterous bay colt with yellow feathers, golden eyes. Sunfeather: Shy dun filly with red-orange feathers, dorsal stripe, and golden eyes. Nightshade's twin sister.
Sunflower: Palomino mare with a light purple feathers, large star on forehead, and 3 white socks.
Sablestone: Young, buttermilk buckskin pinto stallion with sky blue feathers, blue eyes, bald face.
Plains Herd:
Hawkwing: Overstallion. Ruthless brown pinto with white feathers tipped in brown. (or whatever color hawk wings are hehehe see what I did there? hehe)
Mooncloud: Lead mare. Dark silver appaloosa mare with light aqua feathers, long, wavy, black mane and tail, and black points.
Cloudfire: Captain. Perlino stallion with dark purple feathers, thin blaze down face.
Aspenglade: Skyherder. Small, red dun mare with coral feathers and blaze.
Graydawn: Skyherder. Gray mare with red feathers, and broken stripe on face.
Poor Riverglade
Aweee...Riverglade is captured once again...
Oh no!