and you, you knew the hand of the devil.
and you, you kept us awake with wolf’s teeth.

I had just briefly caught Tembovu’s gaze before I tore away mine in my attack on the Tigress. I had managed to do pretty much nothing to the Tigress other than pain myself more – causing quite the flurry of anger to flash before my eyes. I heard nothing. Silence fell upon my ears as my attention was grasped on the Tigress as I bounced back from her, the strong fearsome body of hers beginning to bruise my right side. I could feel my blood rush toward the sections of where I had been hit and the force of the blow made me stagger away for mere moments. I had managed to avoid the fire and tar this far, but I wasn’t sure how long it would last.

Part of me wished I could use magic on the beast, but alas I was powerless here. Nothing I had other than my spiraled gold horn could do anything to the Goddess. Though, I suppose my hooves could as well, but it became more of an afterthought I had before I lunged back at the creature. Rearing up and striking out with my front hooves, ashen colors hoping to pierce the mare with tar dripping from her stripes. At this point I wasn’t paying attention hardly at all to anything other than the beast I was trying to take down.

My head was throbbing and my mind got swept away in thought as I attempted my attack. Silence still fell over the scene from my ears as my mind drifted to the possibility of what was to be between Tembovu and I if the gray mare’s child was his? He seemed so upset with me when he found out my affair with Caleb – yet I had met Caleb before Temb. The elephant had been the other man. And suddenly I began to feel exactly how Caleb had. Frustration and regret to the point of where I wasn’t sure what to do. I had thought that my feelings before were worse enough but not this time. I realized my actions toward the hybrid stag were nothing short of being a bitch which I sincerely hoped Tembovu wouldn’t just drop me like I had with Caleb.

Then I figured I should probably go when this was over to search for the tall, dark, and mysterious creature I had managed to stay away from. Perhaps I could see what we could get from it. Friendship perhaps? Something else maybe? I wasn’t sure. I didn’t know what I could do for myself if Tembovu had a child of his own – the child that I wanted so desperately to bear for him. What could anyone do? Perhaps I needed to speak with Ashamin, that would clear things up one could hope.

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