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First Step Towards Grace

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Tyra went searching for what Alvis said was Angelica. And Angelica is a herb that... oh what was it? Oh ya it's for helping colic! She wondered why Brother wanted it so badly. It's just a plant, how much could he learn from staring at more green stuff?

The landscape up here was just beautiful, the giant rivers, the mountains that looked like they were so big you'd never reach them in a single life-time, even the miles of pasture always looked so green and perfect. The late afternoon sun hung in the horizon making everything have a slightly orange hue. She just missed the trees. She had spent her entire life in the trees, enjoying the shade they gave off and feeling so secure under the canopy surrounded by the columns. Now they had to shelter themselves by the sides of cliffs or overhangs.

This also made finding herbs very easy though. She saw the white star-burst of flowers that indicated what Angelica was at least I remember what it looks like she thought to herself as she trotted towards the flowers, battling tall weeds and grass as she went along.

She gently took the stalk in her teeth and slowly pulled upwards, trying to get the root as well as the rest of the plant. She felt it starting to pull back against her she she pulled a little harder... then a little harder, then harder, "Mph"! Her muffled shock sounded like someone had kicked her in the side. The root had ripped in half under the pressure and her head shot up as if she had been bit.

Bits of dirt fell from the side of the plant as she looked down at the mess she had made. Brother would have been able to get all of the plant up she thought to herself as she laid the plant next to the hole. Alvis was always trying to teach her while he learned himself but she was slow learning when it came to what plants were what and what they did. Same with animals I never understood why it matter what kind of owl was hooting at night.

She decided that she wasn’t going to go back to Brother without having the whole plant. She used her hoof to dig out the rest of the root, which was much longer than she thought it originally was, and picked it out of the dirt.

She loaded her mouth up with the root and plant and slowly made her way back to where they had been staying in a small alcove in a cliff. This is what she liked, the traveling the moving the seeing; she belonged out here roaming and not sitting around learning about plants. She gracefully hopped over a large rock and almost dropped her herbs. There’s gotta be a better way to do this! she thought to herself as she looked around. Nothing came to mind other than turning into a chimpmunk and storing it all in her cheeks so she readjusted her load and kept on walking.

It was just past dusk by the time she got back home. “Where have you been?” Alvis trotted out of the opening in the cliff looking worried and shaking his head. “I thought something had gotten to you or that you fell and broke your leg or that you got los…”

“Mmver!” Tyra interjected and dropped the herbs to the ground, “Brother, relax. You know how I am. Just because you still trip all over everything doesn’t mean that I do.” She looked down at her harvest and slightly kicked it with her hooves. “Here, I got you the Angelica. What did you need it for anyhow?”

“I’m learning. If anything ever happens to you I want to be prepared.” He dropped his head and lipped up the herbs, clutching them very carefully and walked back towards their new home.

<i.>I wonder when we’ll be moving on again.</i> Tyra thought to herself as she looked around at everything while the sun quickly finished it’s way below the horizon, she sighed and made her way after Alvis, taking her time and concentrating on the ground below her.

She ducked her head in and stood, she heard shuffling on her left and gazed over that way even though there was barely any light. “Brother, what’s next after this?” She slumped down and laid on the dirt floor, liking the feeling of how cool it was.

“Well, once I’m done learning here we move on further north west. In reality I only know from stories where we’re headed but with the legends being true about the runes then the legends must be true about where we have to go right?” he stopped and sniffed the Angelica, “It smells like this is going to be great for colic Tyra, this could save our lives one day.” Suddenly the air got tense.

Tyra noticed the feeling and froze, “Brother?”

“Ahhgh!”

Tyra leapt to her feet and bolted towards the sound, “Brother? Alvis! Are you ok?”
She bumped into him and noticed every muscle in his body was tense and twitching. “Alvis, Alvis can you hear me? What’s going on are you hurt? Did something bite you? What do I do?!”

Alvis couldn’t move, couldn’t talk, he just stayed stiff as a board until just as suddenly the tense feeling in the air went away and Alvis slumped onto the ground, breathing deep and quick.

“Brother what is going on?!” Tyra nosed his neck and felt the sheen of sweat. What is happening to him?

“I’m… I’m ok,” he said as he finally regained his breath. “That electricity in the air…  did you feel that? I couldn’t move I feel…. I feel different but I don’t know how….”

“Brother hush, catch your breath. I’m just happy you’re ok.” She laid down next to her brother and put her head over his neck, she could feel his heart beat still pounding. He even feels a little different she thought to herself as she felt her brother relax while he fell quickly asleep.

Her last thought was of the Angelica, and all the knowledge it contained….
So this is another segment of Alvis and his sister Tyra but this time in Tyra's POV. I'm not gonna say what just happened to Alvis, you'll learn soon enough... just as he will ;P

Word count 1031

Story of 1000 words or more: +4
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I think I might know what's happening :D

Love this story so much, Tyra is such a cutie <3