gondolin-noble.livejournal.comThe front door is supposed to let in people. Groups of people, people alone, people in pairs, people who have more than one self inside their own heads. Bleeding people, hale people, live people, dead people, small green people, giant fuzzy people, young people, old people, people who are clueless, people who have been here before.
Not horses, generally.
Not horses moving at a full-out gallop, at least.
That's just mean.
The door opens, and somehow, in a rather eye-bending fashion, becomes larger, for a moment. Almost as large as the space between two over-arching trees, which would blend in quite well with the forest beyond, and the thin, barely-marked trail leading up to the door. It is dusk out there, the sky a dark purple where it is visible between the budding branches of trees.
Then, in the distance, comes a faint jingling sound, and louder, the slightly dulled report of hooves on firm soil - clipityclipityclipityclip.
The sound fades, grows, becomes sharper for a moment - the hard fast sound of hooves rattling against wood - then duller again, moving fast.
Then around a sharp bend in the path, a horse and rider appear - the horse is white, elegant, running hard, the tiny sliver bells on his bridle ringing wildly, the white gem-stones flashing in the dim light. The rider is pale as well, in a grey cloak, leaning forward, his golden hair flying loose behind him.
Neither horse nor rider seem to see the bar at all.
That is, they don't see it until suddenly they are in it, the doors slamming shut behind them.
Hooves slide and scrabble on hard wood as the pair attempt to avoid crashing into the tables at full tilt.