Devils Reject
into the ocean
Hazel pools absorbed the surroundings and each flicker of light as her petite hooves were places carefully on the soft ground. She had wondered out to far, away from her family and her home. Her interest in adventures and exploring was often something that had landed her in a lot of trouble as a child. Other members of the family would shun her and tell their offspring to avoid her and her troubling ways. She was labeled as a heathen and uncontrollable. Her parents were the head of the herd and although the input was mostly negative, they did nothing to stop her but always cared deeply and ended up caring too much, as they were often feeding her need for attention with soft voices and loving gestures.
She was nothing short of a spoiled brat, naive and childish but just the same, she was now scared and this emotion was very new to her. She had never been fearful at home. What was there to fear? Someone was always there to catch her if she fell, watch her if she needed it, listen to her, hug her, be her ear but now, now there was a storm rumbling in the distance and the facing light had caused her to misjudge the trails and the scent here, it was unfamiliar and new. Her heart throbbed inside her chest as her mind took in her new surroundings. Everything seemed bigger to her, everything seemed to be darker and she just knew that something was around every tree to jump out at her.
The inner pink of her nares were showing as the whites in her eyes flashed along with the lightening around her. She shouldn’t be here, she needed to be home safe inside the caverns listening to the rain and letting it relax her… not standing out in the torrential downpour getting her prefect pelt wet. She could feel the adrenaline cause her muscles to twitch involuntarily, as if they too were preparing for some carnivorous beast to jump out of the shadows and rip her open." ‘Where am I, Damnit Devs what the hell didn’t you just turn around and go home when you smelt the rain?!’" she said to herself out loud. She should have been home an hour or more ago, but the sun was sinking in the sky and it was getting darker faster as the clouds started rolling overhead now.
Another crack of thunder followed by a long flash of lightening caused her heart to explode in fear and she bolted as if a wolf had come from behind and sunk its ivories inside her silken ebon pelt. Running blindly her mind started to create illusions. Each flash twisted the landscape around her from trees, to knarred fingers trying to wrap around her neck. A terrified whinny echoed around her as the thorns from a rose patch caught her flints as she ran, ripping through them and in return, ripping her own flesh. The stinging sensation of pain was also very new to her. She slowed until she stopped, terrified and frozen in place under a huge leaning pine. The blood, she could smell her own blood. The scent was intoxicatingly sweet yet sickening to her. She looked down at her flints, it was nothing more than scratches but to her it felt like deep lacerations.
Why had she been so sheltered and cared for? It was right about now she wish someone had been a little rough and uncaring towards her, maybe like that of her friend Raz. She was about the same height as herself and the same color.. In fact, they were very similar in appearance except Raz never cared to get dirty and was always fighting someone… something Dev never could do because she was to chicken shit, afraid to get hurt. Looking around she backed her hind quarters into the tree and stood with most of her body mainly sheltered from the storm. The light was fading and everything around her was turning into a muddled gray. There was no more sunlight filtering though the trees, just a mute gray look making everything appear almost dead. Her tendrils, soaked, were limp and flat against her face, obscuring her view as she stood, trying to convince herself she was alone, nothing was going to come eat her and that her parents were just around the next corner and were coming to find her… much to her dismay however.. She knew that her mom and dad were also terrified of storms and wouldn’t be out to find her, they would send a search party but that party wouldn’t try to locate her… they would say they did but they were actually glad she was gone.
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