Chapter 33: Chapter 32: Horsing Around
After shooing the two of them out of the room, I glanced around our bedroom with mild dissatisfaction. This wasn’t nearly enough room for me to practice moving as a centaur. Closing my eyes, I tried to do what I had seen Terra do several times before. She was able to rearrange the entire Admin Room with but a thought, and had told me that I possess the same power as well. So, focusing, I tried to imagine the current room as a wide open field.
When I opened my eyes, I was surprised to find that my little experiment had worked. No more were the walls of the bedroom blocking me in. Gone was the giant, soft bed that I enjoyed lying in whenever the opportunity arose. Now, the land around me was filled with tall grass, gently swaying in the breeze.
“Great… Now, let’s get started.” I said to myself, before trying to take a step forward with my front right leg, then back left leg. Oh god, no! My leg doesn’t bend like that! I thought as pain erupted in my hind legs, and I tumbled to the side.
As I had been used to walking with a certain type of leg my whole life, suddenly changing that was… difficult. While a horse’s front legs may be similar enough to what I was used to that I could control them, the back legs were the exact opposite. Bending my back legs, it felt like I was trying to twist my knees in a direction they were never meant to go.
Well… now I was on the ground, so walking was out of the question. And, since I had fallen onto my side, I had enough room to practice stretching out and bending all of my horse legs. Really, though, the front legs felt almost like arms, with how they moved.
After a few minutes of adjusting to how my new legs worked, I felt confident enough to stand up. Using one of my arms to push up, I rolled my lower body onto my stomach. Next, I extended my front two legs out to serve as a brace, while pushing my hind legs up.
Slowly but surely, I found my way to my feet. I still felt unsteady, but at least I knew that I could get back up if I fell down. Now, let’s try this again. Front right leg, back left leg, front left leg, back right leg… repeat. Although each movement was shaky, with both my arms spread out to try and balance myself, I managed to slowly walk forward.
“Okay… next, let’s try to pick up the speed a bit.” I said with a sigh, once I managed to start walking at a steady pace. I gradually picked up speed, walking faster and faster until either both my back left and front right legs, or my back right and front left legs were off the ground at the same time. This should be what is known as a trot, right?
My knees still felt uneasy bending in this way, but it was nowhere near as unpleasant as that first step had been. Finally, I did my best to speed up further, moving to a full gallop. For this, my back right leg touched down first, pushing off while both my back left and front right legs touched down to balance me, finishing with my front left leg coming down and pushing off again.
After a minute of running like this, and feeling the wind through my hair, I almost tripped again when a message window appeared in front of me.
|
You have earned a personal achievement!
For familiarizing yourself with a body type sufficiently different from your own, you have earned the Flexible achievement. Body Familiarity unlocked. You are reading story World Keeper at novel35.com You can find story with these keywords: World Keeper, Read World Keeper, World Keeper novel, World Keeper book, World Keeper story, World Keeper full, World Keeper Latest Chapter
NOVEL35.COM – READ BEST NOVELS ONLINE FREE Novel35.com top 1 website in the world. In here We are offering thousands of free books online read! Read novel updated daily: Action novel, Romance Novel, Adventure Novel, light novel translations, web novel, chinese novel, japanese novel, korean novel, english novel and other novel online. Wish you have relaxing reading sessions at Novel35.com Back To Top
|
