MoonShinersDaughter

Weak sunlight warmed the pale hairs on Alucard's broad back. He could feel it lightly upon his darker, grey dusted sides as he stood still. If not for the faint flutterings of his seraph mane, he might have blended into the snow-spotted surroundings with his greying face and the dappled hide that slowly grew darker as it stretched to his legs. Despite the rigorous training he'd just gone through, the faint heat was welcomed, and it made him somewhat sleepy. Winter had come early this year, and a persistent chill clung to land, creeping into the paddocks and stealing into the barn. It had also brought storms. The season looked as though it would shape up to be wet what with the persistent rain, but the temperature had taken a sharp plummet after the holidays. The clouds rolled in frequently in the area, though each time the snow was no more than a few inches deep. Great poofs of it clung to the grass and the bare tree branches, and everything looked entirely too fluffy. The cold

Mist rose in lacy clouds over the soporific stables at Vanderlyle Heights, the cool earth meeting the warm night air. While the pall of sleep held the stable in its throes, spring was eager on this night of the vernal equinox, and the atmosphere was abuzz with something active and electric. Something the dark mare running through the fields knew as magic. The mist pooling on the ground took on the green cast of her billows of smoky, and were it not for the barely audible hoofbeats upon the ground, anyone seeing her would swear she was floating. Cauldron’s smoky green mane likewise licked at the stars in the sky as she drifted over the ground like a shadow. There was a quick, sharp staccato of her hooves on soft earth and then a long moment of silence as she stretched her slender form and soared above the tall grasses. The stable could not contain Caula, and the pitch-colored mare knew it. Especially not on this night, one of four in the year, where the thin places between worlds grew