Nightmare Steed [Lorettana]

[Winona_Heath]

"1, Summer, 514 AV" Winona slung her pack over her shoulder, ready to brave a night in the wilderness. Lorettana figured it would be healthy to get some exercise and what's better than climbing down a mountain just to feed a horse? Probably a lot of things, but Winona liked climbing, just not with Lorettana. She complained a lot when they first arrived in Lhavit in the spring time. Not to forget the horrible experience of watching her guardian dangle from the rocks just to scream at her for using up all the paper. Winona glanced back at Lorettana as she was looking through her things one last time. "Ready go?" Winona asked, opening the door to leave the hotel. Nope. She wasn't ready. Since it was dark out, she lost her goddess-like image and transformed into a regular human. Winona smirked at the memory of her first time seeing it happen. She had actually believed that Lorettana was her spirit guardian, even if she wasn't in the image of an animal like her younger sister had claimed. Her younger sister was the only one who had a spirit guardian so far, and Winona felt so proud when she first met Lorettana. She figured it wasn't a coincidence, but turns out, it was. When Winona first watched Lorettana change into her worldly form, she cried. She cried and cried and cried, not because the person she trusted had turned out to be just a regular person, but because she actually didn't have a spirit guardian. Winona grew past that, even if they had known each other for about a year before ever seeing her second form. She already grew attached to Lorettana, and had no intention of leaving. Where would she go? What would she do? Everything Winona had grown to learn and adapt was all because of Lorettana. Without her, she didn't have a purpose. Winona sat on the concrete, just outside the hotel, right in the middle of the sidewalk. People would pass her and give her a strange look as they did. "Why is that girl sitting in the middle of the sidewalk?" Some would say, "I dunno, but her eyes scare me." Others would reply. Winona paid no mind, just stuffing her fingers down her pants. It was a technic she learned during the spring. It helped her tingling fingers die down and bother her less since keeping it in her pants muffled the movements that set off her senses. Winona sat there for at least a chime before Lorettana was ready to go. She just didn't understand her guardian... She was pretty in both forms! Plus she was absolutely mesmerized by Lorettana's sudden short, straight hair. She never seen straight hair before. Well, after her stay here, she had, but Lorettana was the first straight-haired person she ever met. Winona hopped up when Lorettana exited the building. She almost forgot that Lorettana shrank a little bit after transforming. She chuckled, patting her head, even though it was the very reason of why she had to wait an hour to leave. Whoops, messed up her hair. Oh well, Winona didn't care. Her guardian was so cute! "Ready go now?" She asked, starting to walk in the direction of the gate out of Lhavit. She was quite anxious to see her riding horse again. She preferred to keep it close, and she hadn't groomed her horse in a while, nor feed it. Would her horse even remember her? Would her horse be dead from the wild predators that roamed the forest? She had no idea, but each scene that entered her mind made her feel worse and worse. She just wanted to see her horse again and see if it was up and kicking.