*ooh, we're catching up to where I am in writing it right now...*
Bright lights swarmed Riverglade's vision, blinding her. It added on to the pain she already felt in her wings. She looked around, confused. This land was flat, and fairly dry, with few trees, and hills in the background with caves. This wasn't Canyon Herd's territory. Then she remembered.
The pain. Flying away. Being caught. Hawkwing. Sablestone's betrayal. Plains Herd. She stood up, shakily, and staggered backwards, tripped, and fell down. Everything went black again.
When she woke up, she was blinded again, her ears were ringing, and her wings still hurt.
"Oh, good. She's awake." Said a kind, but unfamiliar voice. Owner of the voice stepped in front of Riverglade. She was a chestnut snowflake appaloosa mare with a wide blaze, 4 white socks, and light yellow wings. Riverglade realized that it seemed a lot of Plains Herd steeds had either pinto or appaloosa markings, and remembered her mother, Brightcloud, explaining this to her.
" In Plains Herd, there isn't much they can camoflauge with, to hide from predators. So instead, their coats are typically spotted, or splotched, making it hard for predators to single one steed out." She explained.
Riverglade lurched unsteadily to her hooves, and fanned for wings. But they felt different. Lighter. She glanced at her wings out of the corner of her eye, and was repulsed at what she saw. She staggered backwards. What had they done to her wings? No. No, no, no, no, no, this can't be happening. She thought. The sky herders had taken out her flight feathers! They were missing! Gone!
Tears sprang to her eyes unwillingly as the realization hit her. She couldn't fly. Of course, she knew her flight feathers would grow back, but that takes moons. She didn't have moons. She had to get back to Canyon Herd as soon as possible.
The chestnut mare looked at her with sympathy. Riverglade saw that. "I don't want your pity" She spat at the mare.
She nickered. "Of course you don't," She said. She began walking towards Riverglade. Riverglade backed away, warily. "Who are you?" She asked, her eyes rolling, exposing the whites.
The mare softened. "I'm sorry. You don't even know who I am, and here I go, walking up to you. Especially after the ordeal you've been through. I'm Gingerroot, the Plains Herd medicine mare. Now, if I may ask, what's your name?"
"I'm Riverglade. First and only foal of Stormwing and Brightcloud, overstallion and lead mare of Canyon Herd." Riverglade said proudly. "Who are they?" She then asked, jerking her head towards the two stallions and the skyherder standing multiple winglengths apart from each other, guarding her.
"They're your guards," Gingerroot said.
*sorry that ended so abruptly, I wrote this chapter really long in my notebook where I write this, and had to split the chapter in half*
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.
Gingerroot: Chestnut snowflake appaloosa mare with light yellow feathers, wide blaze, 4 tall white socks.
I like Gingerroot! (I wish you had picked a different name though... it makes it hard to read when there is a double R or other letter in the middle.)
Also, "Riverglade lurched unsteadily to her hooves, and fanned for wings." Don't you mean "fanned her wings"?
O O P S. yep, I did mean that. I'm just the world's worst typer. half the time it takes my to type something is just me going back and editing everything. XD
And yeah, Gingerroot is kind of hard to read, but I got the idea for her character from a horse game I play called and one of the horses that I own on it is a chestnut snowflake appaloosa named Gingerroot. (I name most of my horses with TGH nameing system)
I like this a lot! Riverglade is in trouble! When I do names like that, I usually do one instead of double, like I would say Gingeroot not Gingerroot.
ooh, smart!
This is really good!
Thank you!