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[PRIVATE] Little Things

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Helovian Ancient
Stallion :: Equine :: ::
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The great wide cavern in the heart of the world yawned. Deep within it a creature rose anew and blinked unsteady coal eyes. He pulled himself from the pits of lava and ran through empty halls, leaving dripping red trails in his wake. Despite the heaviness of his substance he moved faster than most fiery beings, and so he soon found the comfort of the water that he so sought. As soon as the roaring falls beneath the earth appeared, he plunged headlong into the water collected before them. His body hissed and sank, down into the forgiving cold. When he landed at the bottom he was not afraid, but he was young and new to this world, so he was bewildered.

In the land where he was great, they called him the Rock Rabbit.

Down at the bottom of the water he wept tears of innocence, the sort of expression that only youth could truly understand and inhabit. He cried the ancient stuff of volcanoes and it froze into small drops of pumice that filled the water beneath him and quickly formed a pile. On this he climbed, his long hind feet scrabbling up the evidence of his own misunderstanding.

Rock Rabbit, some day you will be born into this world with a gift. Do you remember what it is?

He remembered these words of the Rock Rabbit before him, but now he'd forgotten the gift.

Is it chocolates? he wondered with faint hope as he rose to the surface, his stiff paws carrying him further to the air he did not need. Or maybe it's grasses, the sweet kind of things that the cows of the sea eat. In the morning, they swim like ribbons. He paused as the glittering dark of the air approached; he wondered, if only faintly, how he knew all of these things. But it was knowledge of the Rock Rabbit before him, and so he would hold onto it as truth. No, I do not think it's either of those things, he concluded just before the air rushed into his ears and the rock of his fur began to smolder once more in soft, silken tendrils. I do not think they even have chocolates in this new world.

Slowly he paddled to the shore, cooled off but already beginning to glow a fine red from inside. I will have to find the gift, he thought to himself as he pulled one foot behind an ear and scratched with a vigorous thumping.

But who was to help him?

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Little Things - by Random Event - 06-20-2016, 08:07 PM
RE: Little Things - by Tembovu - 06-22-2016, 09:16 AM
RE: Little Things - by Random Event - 06-30-2016, 11:54 AM
RE: Little Things - by Tembovu - 07-11-2016, 11:39 PM
RE: Little Things - by Random Event - 07-25-2016, 05:40 PM
RE: Little Things - by Tembovu - 07-27-2016, 09:17 PM

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