Ymiden 30, Arc 724
It was a nice and sunny trial, and thus Tristan had decided to make a short trip in order to look for wild fruit, vegetables and herbs, accompanied by his Tunawa friend Koral whose life he had saved in Melrath once upon a time as well as Roffle, his Igelak friend. He hadn’t made such a trip in a while. Actually, he didn’t think he’d gathered anything himself since he had left Melrath. He usually just grew everything he needed in his greenhouse or bought it from a shop.
While Tristan was riding his horse Maxos – named after the infamous tax collector Peake Maxos Andaris – Koral was sitting in a large wicker basket behind the saddle. It had initially been meant for supplies, but it worked just as well for a Tunawa, and it had handles on the sides that Koral could hold onto so that she wouldn’t be thrown out of the basket if Maxos misbehaved.
So far, the huge black stallion was quite well-mannered though. He even slowed down after a moment of reluctance when Tristan pulled at the reins, and his gait was mostly even. He did neigh quite loudly every once in a while as if he wanted to prove to the world that he was a big, bad horse no matter how many people were on his back though.
He was just as big and bad as the real Peake Maxos Andaris who had indeed been very big when Tristan had last met him!
Roffle was walking behind Koral and Tristan and pulling a small wooden cart with their supplies. Tristan had offered to buy an especially docile horse for them and teach them how to ride it, but they had refused and insisted that they liked walking better. They weren’t even wearing any shoes. They had claimed that the enjoyed feeling the grass beneath their feet.
There were a lot of fields and farmlands outside of Rharne that were perfect for what Tristan had in mind. When an especially promising lush green meadow came into view, he dismounted, removing his right foot from the stirrup and swinging it across Maxos’ back, holding onto the reins as he did so. A moment later, he led Maxos to a nearby tree and tied him to it with a sturdy rope, checking the knot several times in order to make sure that it was indeed sufficiently tight. In order to further decrease the chance of the stallion going on an adventure of his own, he put a bowl with water and a bowl with horse feed in front of him.
Hopefully, that would keep him busy.
Finally, he took Koral’s basket. He would be carrying her – except that it seemed as if she didn’t want to be carried. She immediately started growing restless and turned her head left and right, and finally she pointed at the sky above them and exclaimed excitedly, “Pigasi!”
There was indeed a group of Pigasi, Tristan saw when he raised his head. There were five of them that were flying westwards, just like the Pigasi he had seen a few trials earlier. Four of them were fairly big while the fifth Pigasus was a little smaller, as if it weren’t fully grown yet. It was, Tristan realized, a Pigasus piglet (Or Pigasuslet?). His daughter Ayla would be delighted when he told her about it. She really loved pigs at the moment!
It was a nice and sunny trial, and thus Tristan had decided to make a short trip in order to look for wild fruit, vegetables and herbs, accompanied by his Tunawa friend Koral whose life he had saved in Melrath once upon a time as well as Roffle, his Igelak friend. He hadn’t made such a trip in a while. Actually, he didn’t think he’d gathered anything himself since he had left Melrath. He usually just grew everything he needed in his greenhouse or bought it from a shop.
While Tristan was riding his horse Maxos – named after the infamous tax collector Peake Maxos Andaris – Koral was sitting in a large wicker basket behind the saddle. It had initially been meant for supplies, but it worked just as well for a Tunawa, and it had handles on the sides that Koral could hold onto so that she wouldn’t be thrown out of the basket if Maxos misbehaved.
So far, the huge black stallion was quite well-mannered though. He even slowed down after a moment of reluctance when Tristan pulled at the reins, and his gait was mostly even. He did neigh quite loudly every once in a while as if he wanted to prove to the world that he was a big, bad horse no matter how many people were on his back though.
He was just as big and bad as the real Peake Maxos Andaris who had indeed been very big when Tristan had last met him!
Roffle was walking behind Koral and Tristan and pulling a small wooden cart with their supplies. Tristan had offered to buy an especially docile horse for them and teach them how to ride it, but they had refused and insisted that they liked walking better. They weren’t even wearing any shoes. They had claimed that the enjoyed feeling the grass beneath their feet.
There were a lot of fields and farmlands outside of Rharne that were perfect for what Tristan had in mind. When an especially promising lush green meadow came into view, he dismounted, removing his right foot from the stirrup and swinging it across Maxos’ back, holding onto the reins as he did so. A moment later, he led Maxos to a nearby tree and tied him to it with a sturdy rope, checking the knot several times in order to make sure that it was indeed sufficiently tight. In order to further decrease the chance of the stallion going on an adventure of his own, he put a bowl with water and a bowl with horse feed in front of him.
Hopefully, that would keep him busy.
Finally, he took Koral’s basket. He would be carrying her – except that it seemed as if she didn’t want to be carried. She immediately started growing restless and turned her head left and right, and finally she pointed at the sky above them and exclaimed excitedly, “Pigasi!”
There was indeed a group of Pigasi, Tristan saw when he raised his head. There were five of them that were flying westwards, just like the Pigasi he had seen a few trials earlier. Four of them were fairly big while the fifth Pigasus was a little smaller, as if it weren’t fully grown yet. It was, Tristan realized, a Pigasus piglet (Or Pigasuslet?). His daughter Ayla would be delighted when he told her about it. She really loved pigs at the moment!
