[rick.and.shorty]

Midnight moon stood there, panting, her head down while she sucked in air that scraped through her airways, entering and exiting her lungs in great bursts. She'd outrun her death sentence yet another day. Everything went to sleep here at night in the Dimension for the Lost, so she lay down on the ground underneath a gigantic overhanging leaf, content that nothing would try to eat her for a few hours.
The sun faded faster than on earth here, and within minutes the place was pitch black. The DL's night only lasted six hours, though the day was twelve. It was time she got used to it, too, so that she had energy to run for the next day. Midnight Moon found the 18-hour days unnerving; she'd been here for three days.
It was nights like this that she lay awake, watching the moon giving off it's eerie light, the glow casting small shadows into her fur. The moon never phased- always full- constantly giving off maximum light as if knowing the creatures down below would need it to run from predators that decided to go hunting in the night, no matter how rare that was. The night sky was always star-less, which she also found to be a bit scary.
She had no idea how she managed to get into the Dimension of the Lost either. All she could remember was that she walked into a strange store and was looking at a book before she felt like she had lost gravity for a moment before ending up here. She couldn't remember much from her life back on earth, and couldn't remember much about herself, either. She was probably lucky that she could remember her name- she had no idea what she was like back home.
All she hoped was that she'd find a mate soon to help her get out of here- if she could find any more creatures like her in this place. She sighed.
"I just wish I was out of here already," she whispered to herself. The words literally came out of her mouth like purple jelly, floating in the air for a moment before popping like bubbles. She couldn't hear herself out loud, only in her head, like everything else here. She couldn't use her ears- there was just a strange pressure being forced on them- and every sound and thought directed at her would run through her brain.
The monsters here were like nothing she had ever seen: great big, fluorescent blue birds the size of a car, tiny, fire-red-and-orange dog-like creatures with two extra front legs, a quarter of her size though stronger and faster. A tear escaped her left, bright blue eye- the colour of that large bird species. The bird didn't resemble any species on earth. The tear ran over her throbbing star that was placed on her cheek. The dark purple star rimmed in black had another, lighter purple star inside of it and then a yellow one inside that one. It was her family's mark, a part of her skin, of her fur.
She put her head down on her paws, finally, and just before she went to sleep she though about how to leave this dreaded place.

Not really a "background story", but I hope you like this one!

[~Arcade fire~]

The coloration is magnificent!! Keep up the good work!

[rick.and.shorty]

thanks