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One minute she's charging, the next she's falling. Her mother's shoulder barges her out of the way and she collapses in an ungainly heap, Ker's screams ringing in her ears and then..... Snap. The jaws are so close she can smell the fetid breath, and she winces against the inevitable - well shit, she hadn't planned on dying so soon. But she feels nothing. There's a whir of air and a scream, and there's her mother, thrashed around limply in the creature's jaws. "MA!!" screams Oizys, struggling to her feet and standing stock still, quivering with terror. The filly is normally fearless, arrogant to a fault, but this...this is different. This is her mother. For all the woman's many, many flaws, she's always been there for her, always raised her, and now she has taken the blow meant for her. And it's all her fault. She lunges forwards, ready to fight the creature to make it drop her mother, ready to kill it or die trying, but then The Thing decides to strike, snatching at her heart and tightening on her lungs. She can't breathe, can't do anything but stagger, paralysed, as the paroxysms spread through her. Only when breath is returned to her can she lunge forwards, but it's already too late to attack - Mother is a bleeding heap upon the floor, and it could already be too late. Not caring if the creature kills her, not caring if this is the end of both of them, the filly crumbles into a heap at her dam's side, gasping for air and with her heart thundering in her chest. An eyelid feebly flutters in the mangled mess in front of her. "She's alive - fuck, healers, please, healers!" Why hadn't she listened when Evangeline taught her about healing? She looks around frantically for herbs, but what herb will sew a side back together? What herb will stop death itself? Her knees are skinned from the impact on the ground and Oizys bleeds too, but she doesn't notice, doesn't care as she places her face close to her mother's and begs the woman to stay alive. "Shit, shit, please don't die, Ma, you can't." Sobs wrack her body, so out of place on the hideous, obnoxious gargoyle brat, so out of character, but so true, because her heart and her life is breaking. And all because she thought she could take on a monster. |
[ the gargoyle queen ]
OIZYS IS ALWAYS RATED M FOR STRONG LANGAUGE IN HER POSTS
