KAHLUA

The recoil as her head made contact with Aurelia's left hind limb left the queen dazed and confused for a moment as a soft pulsing pain invaded her head. So much for being ready when Aurelia attacked again. Kahlua gave no consideration to the fact that she was in a fight as she lowered her head and tried to wait for the pulsing to stop. However, before the pain dissipated, the queen was met with the sounds of a shouting voice that was (for once) not her own. When the meaning of the words finally registered, Kahlua could do nothing else but turn to try and face Aurelia, horror written plainly upon her face. “Oh Gods,” she gasped as she chocked back another sob. “No... NO!” By the end Kahlua was all but screeching again as she tried to come to terms with what she had done.

More tears ran down her face as she came to the terrible realization- she had killed Aurelia's companion.

Her body shuddered with chills and the queen suddenly found that she could not move, nor did she want to. She could hear Aurelia's hooves thundering against the ground and see her closing the gap between them but there was no reason for her to evade this attack. She had committed a crime, a murder, and it went against everything she had ever preached or known. She deserved whatever punishment would be given to her, deserved for her body to be torn to shreds and have her blood leak out across the lawn. Shilva was an innocent babe, a companion that had been bonded to Aurelia's soul by the very Gods, and Kahlua had just killed her. It did not matter what Kahlua's reasons had been. In this case, as in many others, the ends did not justify the means.

Kahlua's only hope was that her punishment would not involve being thrown from the cliff edge- such a death would come too swiftly for her to feel all the pain that she deserved.

As Aurelia finally reached her and reared, Kahlua tried her best to stand still. The queen was weak and a coward so she cringed but she managed to stand her ground and did not defend herself. Aurelia's hooves hit the Sunshower squarely just beneath her ears on the right side of her head and neck. Kahlua's head rang with this new sensation that was so much worse than what she had felt before. As the world around her began to spin, Kahlua vaguely felt Aurelia's teeth scrape against her upper neck; however, the flesh they met only bruised and did not bleed.

With Aurelia galloping off, Kahlua found that the world was suddenly tipping to the left towards the cliff. The paint began to panic as she realized that the whole Edge was simply going to rotate and dump her into the ocean. “No! Not yet!” she squeaked out softly, pleading with the draconian forest not to kill her so soon. She had so much more pain to feel before she could ever repay her debt to to the Seer and her deceased companion. Kahlua began to sink to her knees in an effort to stop herself from sliding to her doom upon the rocks below.

However, as her knees began to buckle and the ringing in her head began to subside, Kahlua realized something else. If she simply fell to her knees and laid upon the ground, Aurelia would surely kill her right then and there. That would not do either. Soon, the earth began to level out and Kahlua no longer worried about sliding off the grass into the ocean so she stopped herself from sinking. She had to stand now, she had to fight back, because she had to live long enough and feel enough pain to try and make right this wrong. She did not worry that the Seer would become queen of the forest. If that ever happened, Kahlua knew that Kaj would save the herd from Aurelia's reign of terrorism.

Searching for Aurelia's circling form, Kahlua set off at a slow, limping canter and tried to angle herself so that she would meet Aurelia's right shoulder. Wobbling slightly as the harrowing pain of her swollen hind limb and battered head combined, Kahlua attempted to keep her body on course. When she thought she was a step away from Aurelia, Kahlua turned her right shoulder out and tried to ram it into Aurelia's right shoulder or rib cage. She hated this, hated every minute of it, but she had to save herself from death. She had to live on so that she could suffer. She had to live on so that Shilva could become a new nightmare to haunt her every time she slept.


Post| 3/4
WC| 797
OOC| Kahlua presumes Shilva to be dead, be this the truth or not. Permission from Red to edit this OOC comment as I accidentally left it the same as my 2/4 OOC comment.

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