Stallion Claiming Land: Tohoma


Sample Post: The sky was ablaze with the flaming colors of morning. Clouds stained pink and deep crimson as the sun began her slow ascent towards the wide-open expanse of blue-grey that hung over the desert. A silhouette moved along the dusty paths, tread by many before him and many to follow. He quietly covered the lonely ground, the dusty trail stirred by his hooves, the dry air caressed his dark cheeks. This land was harsh dry and barren. It seemed impossible for life to survive here, yet it flourished subtlely. Life was defined in the soft tread of the early rising fox, the faint beating of sparrow wings, whispered within the quick slide of a retreating lizard. Small pockets of close-cropped prairie grass interrupted the red sands. A ghost of moisture was in the air, just a teasing taste that drove him onward. His strides were long and loping, a relaxed pace kept up with ease in the coolness of an early desert morning. His pace slows as hooves find sturdy holdings in the rocky slope. Tohoma picks his way down to the small shallow pool where the water had not yet soaked into the ground from recent rains. A grove of scraggly desert hardened cottonwoods stood watch, providing adequate shelter from the soon to be scorching sun. The stallion lowered his head to drink, content in the coolness seeping onto his tongue and chasing away the dryness in his throat. This place was rough and inhospitable, but he was hardy and tougher than the dry grasses he grazed. Hardened by a long life of thriving in the desert. His range was an unforgiving one, but it was his, and that was enough.



Herd Land Description:
The herd lands are a wide expanse of mostly flat desert, interrupted by large rocky formations. Prairie grass and purple sage grow rampant. If the rains are adequate, cliffroses, snakewood, brittlebush, and rabbitbrush color the red sands. Few trees take root in the dry landscape but cottonwoods and junipers grow near shallow pools of water that collect in the lowlands after recent rains. Red-tailed hawks and tree sparrows claim the skies while coyotes, mountain lion and the occasional fox stalk jackrabbits and cottontails below. The land is home to many snakes and lizards the more notable being numerous kinds of rattlesnakes.

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