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O'er a rock her hooves graced, with the shale under hoof for if she werent to run, how else could she be? The airs had changed from what were damp and elusive, the kiss of the mist at dawn, something her damn might exhale in throaty form over her or twin. In the change, this new breath of the world spoke of shadow and darkness, of places not seen by a solar eye in a time since the wood was a babe and attended by fern and bracken. Every stone clicked. Every twig snapped Twere not the Vale no more, but when had she taken the glass road and the rainbow path to all balinor below? Surely no youngling step softly off the celestial path without the war to fault them. Surely. But was was this the scent betrayed, more than just the first exhales of a newness, but the touch of ash and smoke. Woodspoke. Warmth. Fire. Fire! With a trembled down her slender legs, there was no greater har, in the world than fire. Especially to a naive and innocent. Especially to the one who walked plainly in dreams and not well in a real world. A dangerous terra in front. Stumbling ahead, the mere filly snorted, nares parting to quiver at where the fire was, where the present harms might lie. This. This was not home, not the vale or the kingdom or the land or the world. None of this felt the familiar ring of a rainbow kind, where father sun and mother sky tred in protection, where her brother battled for the sister that should have been dead at birth, the one that by all the rights of the world should well be trampled. But it was not so and so she was here. She was lost. Well lost and alone. With no family, no guide, no sense of where she was. And as always, no eyes. "If thou please..." spoketh she, voice faltering in what might be a wood with no end,"Pray help! Help me, stranger! Curiosity yet terror bound her to the spot in the wood she could not know and would starve if not heeded and helped some. Just a fill in the forest. Just a child. "List! Stranger still, help! I fear the fire consumeth me if not the wood around! Please, aid me!" |
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