stranger than earth

 
He was beginning to see why there were so few venturing up here. Perhaps this place was for the birds.

Rosen gold limbs clawed their way up the narrow path through the interlocking hills. Already his limbs were burning with the strain, and his breath labored by the cold thin air. It was making him question the whole endeavor. His attempt you see, was to explore just how much this land had grown. When he been but a colt here, the place had been no more than a forest and beach. Now it seemed to have expanded into wholly strange, wild places, and some he could even label as beautiful. He was not one to be comfortable knowing his small patch of claim and sticking to it. He, much like his father, wanted to wander the vast expanse and know it all. Though, this was not exactly as romantic as he had envisioned.

Plus…he’d met a few new faces, but he was still lonely. Now finding the world so vast, he felt even smaller in it. The colt, if he desired it, had always had someone to go ‘home’ to if he wished. Even when it was just him and Da in the wilderness, he could visit the old man if he wished. Here, for the first time, he was without his family. It was like a security be taken from him, which put him on edge about other…. situations. With his mind being so absorbed of late, and the problem mastered for so long he hadn’t thought about it in a while. But here, alone, now, the thoughts of fire birds began to seep back in. A nightmare invading his reality.

Of course, he kept himself rather well together considering. At least his lessons on stealth and thievery were good for that. Charging up the mountain slopes, feeling ever muscle pull and strain, he didn’t look bothered at all. The youth was just in his own little world, climbing up the mountain because it was there and in his path to nowhere. So when he crested the foothill at last, it took a second before he even realized that he was no longer alone.

It jolted him to hear another’s voice and he stops with head up only a few feet from where he’d surfaced. “Oh.” It seemed to be the growing tradition of his hellos of late to begin with such. The pale gold was quick on the recovery though. “Apologies if I’m intruding…” He lets it rumble in a harmless greeting, and even let curl a corner of his lips. One hark twists to the side, thinking of the path continuing onward. He could just as easily slip on past these two birds, and continue his own journey…but then, something him didn’t want to. Something in him wanted to stay, to socialize. So he pauses, looking between the two creatures of sky, as if, asking for someone to call him into a conversation. To ease the tension he felt in his shoulders, and remind him he was not alone.

OOC ::  Kae said I might could join you two? =D
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@Savera @Virga