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					<div class="bbWrapper">A brittle shine of starlight was all that illuminated the serpentine rivers and wide-mouthed channels as they poured lazily towards the coast.  The streams interrupted an endless, emerald grasslands and traced a lazy pattern amid the shivering foliage.  A moonless night turned those breathing, waving grasses inky and velveteen; eerie.  The streams themselves, silvered by the cold light of a thousand shivering galaxies overhead, cast out a mirrored shine – working in some way as a beacon.  A shimmering path.<br>
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Fevered dreams had shaken Dagg from slumber.  Dark tidings.  A premonition.  The young stallion had woken, hide soaked in salted-sweat, shivering under the cold blanket of stars.  Troubling nightmares visited often, though never with such a tangible effect.  The scent of brimstone.  Ash cascading to earth like a heavy rain.  Fear.  As Dagg plodded alongside the winding rivers, he tried to abandon feeling of foreboding.  Yet, it was stubborn, clinging and worrying at him – driving his feet forward.<br>
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Dagg felt as though, somewhere, something had gone wrong.  The sly shadows of night did little to ease his nerves and the stallion caught himself shying at nothing.  A pair of mourning doves cooing their midnight song broke his composure.  The stallion skittered to one side, panic again taking its hold.  Angrily, Dagg stamped a cloven-hoof.  Dreams, nothing more!  What did nightmares matter?  Balking at shadows and sounds!  Squealing like a filly at the wind moving through the grass!  These were colts’ fears!  Blowing air through his nostrils, Dagg cursed himself.  Embarrassment bloomed in his gut, even though there had been no one to witness his bursts of foal-ish fear.  Swatting at invisible flies, Dagg swished his tufted tail – trying to calm his nerves.  Continuing his walk, the stallion thought, might do him some good.  Even if it only proved that nothing sinister was going to rise from the flank-high grasses and swallow him whole.<br>
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Against the darkness, the young stallion rather stuck out.  A gleaming outline of stark white against the black.  Now, Dagg was not wholly white – few unicorns he had ever seen were.  Instead, his pelt was a pied smattering of iron-grey and silver.  Leopard-like rosettes coated an otherwise snowy hide.  From fetlock to tail, Dagg’s flowing mane was a wild and pale tousle, here and there flecked with steel.  A spiral horn, pearlescent white, crowned his brow.  The tip had been honed to a rapier-point.  As young mares and stallions came of age, they were taught to draw the tip of their alicorns through cloven hooves to sharpen them – the world, after all, could be fraught with peril.  On prouder occasions, Dagg might have paused long enough by the steam to preen at his own reflection, but the night had set the thought of his vanity far from his thoughts.<br>
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It was not until morning, when the first rays of sun began to warm his pelt that Dagg began to feel at ease.  The worries of a colt, indeed.  Dawn had chased away his demons.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">Whatever imagined horrors Dagg had dredged up the night before had vanished.  The shimmering gold of dawn’s break chased the last cobwebs of uncertainty from the young stallion’s mind.  Rather than being spent from the previous evening’s escapades, Dagg felt jovial.  The sudden absence of his unfounded anxieties lifted his spirits.  Kicking into a high-stepping trot, the silver-flecked stallion broke away from the river’s edge.<br>
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Magnificent and fluid in motion, the young stallion boasted fine bone and angles – but he was young, yet.  Coltish excess was obvious in each step.  Every step was high and gallivanting, though there was not a soul to impress amid the shivering emerald grasslands.  Another stream, twin of the channel he’d only just left behind, slithered across his path.  Quickening into a canter, Dagg sailed half-across it.  Landing in the sandy shallows with a rancorous splash, the dappled stallion took to treading water.  Following the stream about the curve of a rolling hillside, Dagg took notice of his surroundings almost too late as he rounded a bend in the river.<br>
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Lit from within, the unicorn before him to have swallowed the dawn.  Pale satin-gold and pristine white as soft as morning.  Really, being upwind, Dagg hadn’t even a moment to register if it were mare or stallion that was moving briskly from the riverside.  All the young stallion could do was react.  Bracing both forelegs, cloven hooves splaying into wet sand, Dagg careened to a halt.  Waves crashed against his brow, sending spurts of water up his tender nostrils.  Dagg snorted, tossing his head where he had managed to stop only yards from the pale unicorn.  Only then was he able to get a good look at the stranger.  A mare.  Unabashedly, he stared.<br>
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Unicorns, typically, were solitary.  Keeping to small bands, or pairs was more common than true herds.  In any case, the unicorns he had come across were few and far between.  Nomads and bachelor males were made for the rolling plains – so this is what Dagg had come to encounter.  Older, rival stallions.  Rag-tag, traveling bands of younglings with only enough seasons to have grown their horns.  The wise traded a life of peril on the plains for the relative safety of the woods and grottos.  With the cover of tree-canopies, one didn’t have to watch the skies for gryphons, nor the tall-grasses for leopards.  The sight of another of his kind was not one he had come to expect.<br>
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Manners came back to Dagg slowly.  Dipping his arched neck, the stallion touched his muzzle briefly to one foreleg.  The sharpened tip of his horn broke surface with the water in a hasty bow of greeting.  Dagg nickered; his laughter was uncertain and somewhat apologetic.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">Ruia became aware of a change in the sound of the water behind her with a flick of her delicate ears, but in her haste to be away from the place, foolishly, she ignored it. The graceful mare just wanted to escape the feeling of danger; the uncomfortable tightness in her stomach was driving away her appetite. However, when the scent of an unfamiliar stallion reached her, the mare slowed cautiously, then came to a stop on slender legs. A quick pivot followed, twisting the grass under her hind hooves and breaking the stalks. Her deep brown eyes fell onto the stag as he came to a slightly clumsy halt in the middle of the river she had been retreating from. In the few moments that he spent staring at her, she did the same, albeit with a slightly less friendly expression. Her ears swiveled backward, in a defensive manner. One could never be too careful.<br>
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He appeared young, indeed he had been moving well before his graceless, skidding stop. His coat was not one she was accustomed to seeing, or perhaps it was that she was no longer accustomed to seeing any unicorn coats, apart from the one she glanced at in passing calm water. Dark gray with white throughout, in enchanting shapes like snow. Where the water had touched him, his hairs had darkened to a rich black. Full of vitality and energy, and the first unicorn she had seen in many months, Ruia couldnt deny that her interest was peeked by his presence.<br>
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"Hail yourself," Ruia responded softly, the warm melody of her voice carrying well in the still morning air. The words themselves were flippant, but spoken in a measured tone; her return was not meant in offense, only caution. "It is not often I happen upon one of our kind in my travels." The observation opened the way for further conversation, if the stallion wished it. He could prefer to simply continue on his own path, but the way he had stopped so suddenly at the sight of her lead her to believe otherwise.</div>
				
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"You travel the grasslands enough to know all those who step foot on them?" Ruia asked, almost teasingly. Her dark eyes appraised him, judging his actions and reactions. "I come from a stretch of forest, many months' walk from here." She raised her nose, pointing in the general direction she had come, although it seemed she was indicating the sun. "I didnt desire a stagnant lifestyle. What of you? Where do you <i>hail</i> from?" A slight emphasis fell on 'hail' as she used it in an unfamiliar way. His speech was a touch strange to her ears; while it was the same words, they appeared to be used differently, perhaps more formally. It was odd to here 'hail' used in place of more simple terms. Her vernacular was of a lower order, it seemed.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'">“I…” Dagg faulted, a rush of air blowing through his nostrils.  “…no. I suppose I don’t.  But your manner of speaking is strange – nothing like I’ve heard among the hills.”</span><br>
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Those who dwelled on the plains were Outcast – called so for their lack of structure and sedentary lifestyle.  As wandering was the nature of a nomad, no unicorn on the emerald hills could claim a true territory.  Though a stallion might fight to defend his mare, or a doe her foal, territorial squabbles were an ultimate taboo among the nomads.  All Outcast were linked through a code of ethics and tradition, obeyed above all other law. Their more practical cousins who called the sheltered forests home thought them mad.  Renegades.  Constantly watching the skies for wing-cats, gryphons always eager to hunt foals or yearlings, seemed no life for a unicorn.  The plains were fraught with danger – open, vast seas of green without shelter.  True, many Outcast fancied themselves warriors.  Stronger and more capable than their cousins.  This, however, was the first time Dagg had encountered a unicorn that was not cut of his same renegade cloth.  This shining, dainty mare…surely she hadn’t come from </span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'"><i>there</i></span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'">.</span><br>
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“Truly?” The stallion found himself asking, tone incredulous but intrigued.  One rear-hoof stamped to add emphasis to his query.  Dagg opened his mouth to poise another question, then thought better of it.</span><br>
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Once, at a summer gathering, the young stallion recalled tales the elders had told about their forest-dwelling cousins.  Softened from an easy lifestyle, it had been said that their horns fell off – or otherwise never grew, their brows naked as that of a plough-horse.  Of course, politeness deemed Dagg not speak of that story.  It had to be an old mare’s tail.  At least, if this mare spoke the truth.  </span><br>
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“All beneath the sky, I call my own.  But I hail from nowhere.”  Another sing-song of formality.  However, it did not sound strange to Dagg.  Having no territory of his own, he had no place to hail from.  Swishing the silver-tufted end of his tail, the stallion nickered.  “I’m called Dagg.”</span></div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">Ruia gave a soft snort of derision. "Perhaps because I dont belong to them." She commented, hiding her feeling of triumph at causing him pause. His less-than-smooth response gave her a reason to lower her guard ever so slightly. Even though he seemed to be a proud, posturing young stag, he appeared to be in earnest when he spoke.<br>
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The mare eyed him closely at his disbelief, letting it go for a heartbeat. The answer to her question came as a mild surprise, and realization dawned on Ruia. He was a true Outcast- born and raised. There was a good chance he had never stepped into the shelter of the shaded wood she had been brought up in. She flicked her ears uncertainly, understanding now why her appearance had shocked him so. Ruia was a slender, lithe little thing, hardly meant for the dangerous life of a renegade of the grasslands, quite in contrast with any equine he was accustomed to seeing. She did not, however, allow her origins to bring her embarrassment. The mare's eyes still held their lively, determined light as she spoke again.<br>
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Defiance rang in those words, yet no malice reached his eyes.  In fact, there was laughter in those near-black depths.  The stallion tossed his dead proudly, a wild tangle of iron-flecked mane obscuring his view.<br>
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“Pray, be careful, gilded-mare, or you’re likely to be snatched up by a wing-cat.”  Teasing mirth replaced his pride.  The very thought of a dainty mare such as this braving the empty wilds of the plains drew a playful whinny from his throat.  “But tell me.  What chased you from the comfort of your thickets, hm?  You say you couldn’t stand a stagnant life – so, how do you find the plains?”</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">"It is hard to coordinate titles between groups who do not speak to one another." Ruia said, by way of an apology for the possible offense. But he seemed to be merely amused by it, and by her.<br>
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A bit of stubborn pride caused her to pin her ears at the sound of his teasing. Trying to avoid ruining his good humor, she simply said, "I would not have lasted this long if I was incapable of watching the skies and caring for myself." Her voice remained light, but the note of annoyance in her tone was unmistakable. Indeed, she knew well enough to stay alert, and even though she would prefer running from any danger, the mare was confident she could hold her own if unable to escape. <i>Well.. maybe.</i> She gave a small toss of her head, chasing away those doubts. If she had listened to them, she would have never stepped out from under the canopy.<br>
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The mare's eyes drifted to the green waves of grass as the question she had come to expect was posed. "The comfort of the thickets is so comforting it grows boring, after a time. There arent sufficient ways of fighting boredom, but quarreling with neighbors or raising young. Most would argue that raising young is the only thing worth doing but.." She narrowed her eyes at something in the distance, a tiny smudge of black. "The plains have treated me well, thus far. I have not met much that I cannot outrun. Perhaps I was not born to fight for an existence out here, but the plains suit me much better than the forest ever did." She pointed her sculpted nose toward the smudge on the horizon. "As a more experienced traveler, what do you suppose that is?"</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">A chiding nicker shook the stallion’s muzzle.  This mare was spirited.  Though she was slightly built and as dainty as a flower petal, she had braved the unknown on a whim.  It spoke volumes.  Perhaps this one truly was made to be an Outcast.  Dagg had nearly been ready to say so when the mare thrust her velveteen nose towards the horizon.<br>
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There, where sky met the vast green ends of the plains, lay an ugly smear.  Charcoal grey.  Looming, swift tendrils of soot wafted towards the heavens.  It hadn’t been until he’d laid eyes on it that the vague scent of brimstone filled his nostrils.  Acrid, burning, sour.  The stench of ash and old bones.  Tossing his head, Dagg danced back a few steps.  It was not fear that gripped him now, but conviction.  Perhaps his dream from the night before had been more than a dream.  The Sight – a premonition.<br>
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Snorting throatily, the stallion side-stepped the mare.  Coming up alongside her flank, those dark eyes remained on the horizon.  “Ash.  Smoke.  But how?”  There had been no spring storms.  No lightning to set the fields ablaze, nor anything else that would cause a fire.  And dragons had not been seen in seasons out of time – extinct or either hiding amid their hordes.<br>
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Carefully, the dappled stallion stepped towards the grey tendrils of smoke.  At first, those hoof-beats were tentative. But he had need to investigate.  If his dreams had been correct – had truly foretold something – Dagg knew he had to see it out to the end.  “I thought I’d dreamt it…” The stallion mumbled abscently.  Casting a glance back over his shoulder at the mare, Dagg paused.<br>
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Her eyes slid to him, watching his dappled bulk move away from her side, toward the smoke. Dagg said something else, but all she was able to understand was the word 'dreamt.' What would cause a fire, at this time in the season? She would have seen any storms, carrying the threat of lightning, from the hilltop where she had slept. What, then? A creature of legend? She thought the tales of fire-breathers were only myths, nighttime stories to scare colts into obeying their mothers.<br>
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Ruia took a slow step backwards, but at the same moment, Dagg looked back at her. Her ears shot forward to him, then back again, and she snorted nervously. "I have seen such things only from far off. It goes against instinct to get closer." The mare spoke it with a considerable amount of sass, but stepped forward to follow Dagg anyway. After all, she had left behind the land of brush and trees for a life of adventure. And what could be more adventurous than following a stranger toward something obviously dangerous?</div>
				
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