The night was a little colder than what it had been this past week, and she could not sleep. Insomnia was not very unusual for her. She had often been forced to work than, and was use to having wide eyes empty of sleep. The darkness was a cloak easily hiding what the day would easily reveal. Sometimes it made her paranoid, not knowing what lurked in the shadows, what was so close, but not known. Tonight it would have to be black, with no sliver of the moon, nor shining star faces. She hated it. She had frequently tried to close her eyes, and block out her thoughts. She was relatively safe beneath the conifer she had backed her rump into, but the sandman did not come to visit.

Alone, contemplating how long she stood stand trying to win the battle a flash of light broke in the distance from the heavens above. She could not believe her eyes for quickly as it had appeared it was gone leaving things more shaded. Eerie goosebumps starting to rise upon her skin, she tried to think what it was to ease her mind. She only came to one thought, a falling star. She held onto the innocent idea, wanting it to be true. With her limbs stiff, and wanting very much to know if she was right, like she was walking on fragile glass she headed toward where the flash had been.

It wasn't long till smoke, its burning, suffocating scent filled the air. Her old riend panic would began to wrap its deadly coils around her.


The unicorn's pace began to quicken to a hesitant trot, but upon the call of her leader she was soon loping. What she could do, she did not know. Something needed to be done, and she was not about to run away from the flames again. The rising smoke it was easy to fine where the fire was eating, but navigating was a different matter. It burned her eyes, and sought her lungs. Counting her steps she held onto her sanity, sweeping over the earthy floor with best balance she could. She heard Mauja call for two, and briefly she tried to see if they were nearby. The smoke was only expanding, and she had to push through it's dominating curtain. With deep snort she forced the mixture from her nose, a shook her head to only be greeted with another drift of haze. Fear drove her to turn heal and run, but she glided through it. Before her were five trees covered with orange dancing light, all along their limbs and top.

A puzzle formed in her mind, how could she stop it? She was beyond reaching the trees, but there was some flames among the ground. Nothing else coming to mind, she began to fling dirt upon the light with her wide hooves. Quickly stomping where she had managed to suffocate the fire. Only then did she notice the icy figure in the distance, the outlines of two others. She did not go to meet them. She was frozen to the trees, watching them burn, wanting badly to have it disappear.