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I don't know what pulled us this far away from home. I am just glad that home is still well, home. I could of lost everything. Technially, I kinda did since Mom and Daddy have been no where to be found since. I wonder if the even miss me. In their absence however, I have grown. Another change of seasons and i'll be a full year old. I am not my full height, yet. But at the same time I am no longer the little filly who stood on the hill with everyone else. Mom's amulets hang from my neck. Someone had come and stolen the feather she had left with me. I miss it, and want it back. But maybe, just maybe if I go speak with the God of the Earth he will give one to me? I can hope so. I've been working on controlling the magic that seemed to flow in my veins now. So maybe if I show him how good i'm doing with what he's given me, he'll replace the feather that someone took.

I am not the only one who has been growing. Sarabi, is four months old now. I don't think I ever really have said what my bonded looks like. She's beautiful of course. But then again I am biased. Her coat is short and coarse, but tan in color with white markings across her chest and stomach. She also has a little white spot on the back of her neck. Her nose and mouth are darker, kind of a brown or black. But her other markings are the coolest! The tips of her toes, and a line down her spine with lines going down her sides are like, red! Like fire red! Any time she makes it rain fire, oh yeah did I mention she can do that too, her red markings glow!

But enough about us. Yeah, we're pretty much badasses now. But we aren't even full grown. Back to this meadow place. I wanted to explore and of course Sarabi came with me. I hate all the snow covering the ground, but BirdSong is near I think... Okay I hope. BirdSong means i've been around for a full year and i'm ready to be more grown up than I am now. It'll be another year before i'm worth anything to the herd. But that's lots of time to practice with my magic and watch the adults spar. I'l show 'em, I can be big and bad too.

Okay for real this time, no more about us and our amazing life. We move through the snow, Sarabi growling every now and then as it got too deep for her in places. You can ride on my back if you want to.... But that just made her snarl even more. She's like me, wants to do it herself. I'm looking ahead, looking for anything really. That's when I hear it.... No. I hear her. That scream, that voice. My heart drops. No. No no no no no. That can NOT be my Mom screaming like that. I hear the snarling of a big cat and that almost confirms it. I go from a walk, to a flat out run toward the sounds. By the time I arrive it's to late. Mom's dying, her killer just standing there while Keiran lays across her back. I can tell he leaped at the killer, but I don't take the time to see if he made it. Sarabi growls and her red markings glow. NO! I scream at her through the bond as I rush forward to fall next to my Momma. Momma i'm here... I'm here.... Please don't go! Her voice is soft, barely a whisper. Tears well up in my dual colored eyes as I hear her speak one last time. Told me to tell Zünden and Adelric that she loves them, and she loves me. No Momma, don't go! I scream, ignoring the fact her killer is right there. He could turn on my any moment. Keiran lifts his head and licks my cheek. I look to him, and he looks to Sarabi and then back at me. I wish I knew what he was trying to say. But Momma, fills me in. He says to take care of Sarabi, and she needs to take care of me. I nod and she noses something toward me. It's a part of a horn. She tells me i'll know Adelric because he will have the other half. I have to find them, my half siblings. I have to find them both for her. I nod, tears falling down my cheeks as my Momma breathes her last. Keiran licked Sarabi's muzzle and she whines softly. He too, the breathes his last.

I lay there next to her for what seemed like hours, but was really mere moments. Until my grief rolled into my anger. I stand, the half a horn at my front hooves. Sarabi moves forward to pick it up in her jaws, but I stop her. You murderer. I speak in a voice that I never knew I had. It's cold, much different than the voice I had just been speaking in to my now gone mother. YOU BASTARD YOU KILLED HER! I scream, my head flashing down to snatch the broken horn up in my own teeth. I stand there, staring at him. If he tried to harm me, well I already could feel my magic alive in my veins just waiting to be called on. The horn that I held so tight in my teeth... I would use it if he didn't back away. He didn't belong here. He wasn't family. He FUCKING KILLED HER! Sarabi growls as her markings begin to glow once more.


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ooc: No magic used from Vitani or Sarabi yet. The piece of horn is the half of Krieger's horn that Kiara had that will need to be added to Vitani's list of items later.