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Not So Long A Winter

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“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”


Death was everywhere. It wasn't dramatic, nor did it's presence reveal itself to one who wasn't looking. But it was there. Cetan could see it in every patch of snow his hooves passed over, snow that choked the life from plants and thus the animals that fed on the grasses and green life too were being starved to death. Cetan knew this all too well; the Long Winter had left it's mark on both his scarred hide and his mind. He remebered the daily hunt for food, the crippling hunger, the numbness of the cold that whispered a gentle death if he just but sank into the snow and slept.

But this winter he was prepared. His body shielded by a thick winter coat and a healthy layer of fat, he would survive. The stallion passed through the sleeping bodies of the trees, bright blue eyes flickering around. He had not seen another soul in many weeks, and was beginning to wonder if this forest had no end and no one alive within it. When he looked to the side, his primary horn was snared by branches, and the young stallion shied with a shrill whinny, bolting before he realized it was just a tree. So he stopped, allowing his fear-ridden heart to slow before he continued on in the icy forest, ears flicking, listening to the crunch of cloven hooves on snow, a lonely sound he was sadly used to by now."Hello?" He called out, ears pinning flat against his skull. He called out of desperation; this new place had to have other life. His breath frosting in the air, the black dapple waoted for a response.


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Not So Long A Winter - by Cetan - 11-09-2014, 12:08 PM
RE: Not So Long A Winter - by Thor - 11-09-2014, 02:49 PM
RE: Not So Long A Winter - by Cetan - 11-09-2014, 04:00 PM
RE: Not So Long A Winter - by Thor - 11-09-2014, 07:02 PM
RE: Not So Long A Winter - by Torleik - 11-09-2014, 07:13 PM
RE: Not So Long A Winter - by Cetan - 11-09-2014, 09:18 PM
RE: Not So Long A Winter - by Thor - 11-11-2014, 12:29 AM
RE: Not So Long A Winter - by Cetan - 11-12-2014, 05:42 PM

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