You follow Mander further into the field, wondering what you may find. He did say babies, but you've never met a baby unicorn before. What are you to expect from one? Suddenly, you find out. A small red figure charges at you, horn lowered. You gasp and dodge, just in time.
'Micah!' Mander growls. 'Behave yourself!' He shakes his head irritably, just like an irrate parent. You barely supress a grin. 'I saw that,' he snaps at you. 'Don't get any ideas. She is an adoptee, not any daughter of mine! No child of my body would ever behave like that.' The small red figure hangs her head.
'I'm sorry, Mander,' she says softly. Her voice is high and thin, like a reed flute. You shiver from the beautiful noise. Without warning, Micah wheels around and runs off into the field, calling, 'Janny, Janny!' at the top of her lungs. You barely make out a silver streak, followed by a white unicorn approaching. The streak reaches you first, still panting. It is a silver colt, a beauty if you ever saw one. You approach him carefully, holding out a hand which he sniffs curiously.
'Janny, look! A human!' Micah is dancing with glee. The young silver unicorn frolicks with her, leaping into the air and kicking his heels. You laugh along with the pixies and Mander at the young unicorns.
'Darling, aren't they?' a voice from beside you startles you. You turn and find yourself facing the white unicorn you spotted earlier. 'Micah and Janissen are the only two young here, so they have bonded. As you may have guessed,' she adds, almost as an after-thought. 'Greetings human, I am Talys, the nanny, you could say.' Talys smirks. You ponder how a unicorn can smirk and decide not to think about it any longer.
'Come, children,' Talys says. The three spin on their heels and gallop off into the distance.
Mander pins you with a penetrating stare, making you feel a bit uneasy. 'Yes,' he says, 'you might do.' He snorts and tells you, 'Forgive my mysteriousness, but there is something I must tell you. You can follow me into the meadow and we'll talk, or return to the pools.'
What do you do?
Micah and Talys were adopted from Enchanted Waterfalls
Janissen was adopted from Belial Adoptions
