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Spend enough time leaning against a tree, with your arms crossed, staring off into the distance has its down sides. The positive is not many of his herd bothered him. Always the silver lining. The down side is you miss herd movements. That would be the cloud part.
How did the whole herd move off without him noticing? Probably that staring off into the distance.
Offering a heavy huff -- not a sigh, he didn't sigh! Atheron started to move. First step, bushing off all the bark on his side and the leaves in his mane. Next step, start trotting forward. The first location to come to mind was the Rainbow Pools.
When you are lost -- not that he was lost -- that was a good meet up location. Racing through the forest, Atheron did a poor job of holding back a 'whoop' as he pushed speed. Weaving through the trees and dodging branches is a old trick of his.
Unchecked confidence sent him sailing over an over turned log like he had wings. Gravity reminded him that he didn't have wings by bringing him down hard on a dry branch. The crack it make when he landed on it grated even his ears and he did it.
Inches from a red hued Centuaress, her motion indicating she was probably reaching for something currently crushed under his hoof. A flower by the look of it. Two inches off and both of them could have been in a world of hurt. At current he was waiting for his heart to start beating again after the sudden shock.
Fatal Irony