Username: ShadyBro
Show Name: NVR Downtrodden Hearts
Barn Name: Maggie
Gender: Mare
Story:
The days are always filled with such anxiety. The hustle and bustle of everyone around me, their stresses and worry pouring off of them like sweat. I loathe the morning light that takes my sweet night from me. Because that is where I feel safe and happy - the night. The cool blue hues creeping over the land as it swallows the sun whole. The symphony of silence the patters out as the mindless chatter leaves my ears. The sweet smell of open air, that crisp and cleanness, the empty fields that echo my steps as I walk. I could go on and on about how much better the night is to me.
I suppose I have always adored the late hours. Though I do recall, as a filly, a night in which I truly realized how much I adored the darkness.
I had spent my days with my mother, doing our normal daily things, when one early morning a loud and shivering vehicle crawled up the path toward the field gate. My mother had always loved the humans, and rushed past me to greet the truck, probably hoping for an early morning ride along the quite roads. I however felt an uneasiness about it all. I was right to, of course. The back of the truck popped open with a loud clunk. And out spilled them. Three tall and seemingly handsome colts trotted out, their noses plastered to the sky. I didnt like them right off the bat. My mother inched up welcomingly and greeted the foals - she had always loved newcomers, unlike me. They wernt necessarily unpleasant toward her, but I had expected a more friendly response to such a great mare, and that annoyed me. But what annoyed me more was the noise.
All day long, constantly, without a single lapse, they played. They were loud and rambunctious little devils, breaking fences, screaming and hollering, kicking up mud. Despite my small stature I had begun contemplating approaching the colts and even challenging them. In fact, as the day went on, I did just that. It was late afternoon and the sun was lying across the horizen. Shadows were dramatized around me and the ground below my hooves boiled with a firey palette. The boys had drudged up another muddle hole near the front gate, covering everything in dirt. I hated dirt. I liked my world clean, and proper. These stupid little foals had destroyed that. So I stood, my ears pinned back, and snorted at them. They all turned to me with an awful grin. The tallest of them, his pelt white as newly fallen snow, glared down at me.
I explained myself in a way that, perhaps, was a little more aggressive than necessary. For lack of a better word, they were not happy with such digressions.
The next thing I know I was flying past my mother as the three much larger foals gave chase. I felt a nip at my flank, a tear at my ear, hair being ripped out of my precious tail as I zipped away. I ran well into the night. The gracious, wonderful night.
In the end I was able to cower in the darkness, hide away from the danger, and be still.
Ever since then, even as I and the colts grew past such childish behaviors and grudges, I felt safe within the darkness. I strode away each morning to sleep the day away. And in the night when I awoke, all was well.