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June 9, 2011 - 5:31am — SarieBearie
[=10]The place they stood was too perfect.
“Where are we?” asked Aspen, so quietly that it barely carried to Vipin. Xylia, small as ever, stood staring at the flowering of violets at her hooves and seemed terrified. Vipin’s calm blue eyes had become a mess of emotions, and he looked at the trees lining the field and brilliant sun overhead, brighter than lightning.
“Beyond the void, I assume,” said Vipin, just as softly as his sister before him.
Everything breathed.
They stood motionless for many moments, swaying slightly, frightened and amazed and full of boundless love all at once. It was true: the place was absolutely beautiful and seemed too eerily quiet to be there. But, as Vipin moved for the first time, several things happened—the wind picked up, the flowers hummed, and a brilliantly red doe sprinted across the grass, bounding and leaping before them. Flowers sprang from her hooves, and the clouds overhead seemed to rotate to follow her. She glanced at them, with golden eyes, and winked, sprinting away as quickly as she had come, leaving only the whistling of the wind and an elven giggle behind her. The lone stag shouted “wait!” as she disappeared into the far-off trees, but her giggle was replaced with a deep chuckle.
They turned, and faced the Queen, King, and their Unnamed.
“Hello,” said Nevermore, stopping a distance away. Azalea bowed, and Calisto smiled faintly.
“Hello,” said Vipin in reply, his irises shaking. Aspen recoiled, and Xylia disguised a sob.
It occurred to them that Xylia had never seen her father before. Vipin and Aspen backed up politely, and Nevermore and Azalea mirrored them, until the two peacocks remained.