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08-16-2012, 07:33 PM

WILLOW & ERMINE

.arborun lignea .. .mare. ..23 years. .. .16.3 hands.





Hooves trace a dry, dusty path through the thickening woods. The plants are brittle, the surfaces parched, the bark curling with drought. It makes her wrinkle her nose a bit in distaste. It lends her eyes a weight of sadness, to see such suffering.

The lands call to her. A raspy, croaking plea for help, for food, for water.

A dry branch catches her side as she passes. It snaps loud and obtuse and falls waywardly to the ground. Its the exact sound of a finger snapping. Willow squeaks in surprise and hunches up her back as she tries to avoid the dead touch. Leaves shake and tendrils swirl at the abrupt movement. As if it isn't loud enough, a chattering sound of alarm comes from above. Willow responds with a low and short neigh. It silences the stoat atop her, but he scurries down the trunk of her tree, ears up and eyes beady with distrust.

As the panic leaves her heart like birds departing the forest, she glances back at the gruesome limb strewn on the dirt. A shudder of sympathy and pain racks her spine and sets her leaves quivering in cruel music once more. Ermine chatters softly now, soothing her.

"I am glad the season is over," she croons to the stoat as he snakes his way to her head. His little claws feel like needles as he walks and it leaves tingles where he's passed. He's hunched up now against her ears, fore paws settled in her forelock and whiskers tickling her whenever he turns. He's unsettled as well. There's something in the air, something... well she can't quite place it.

There's certainly unbalance here though.
Of course, that's nearly everywhere she's come to learn in her travels.
The world is terribly skewed but rather than fix it everyone's learned to lean.

Sighing with well practiced patience, tail hairs whispering at her hocks as she flicks them idly, Willow presses on into the decaying threshold.


Messages In This Thread
|grow| - by Willow - 08-16-2012, 07:33 PM
RE: |grow| - by Poppy - 08-17-2012, 05:53 PM
RE: |grow| - by Willow - 08-17-2012, 08:12 PM
RE: |grow| - by Poppy - 08-21-2012, 01:35 AM
RE: |grow| - by Willow - 08-21-2012, 11:02 AM

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