by puddssoul » Mon Dec 10, 2012 12:16 pm
Glad that the silly mare was gone (and still fully unaware that it actually WAS his mate) Bronze settled back into his little nest he had made -- a bowl shape pressed down into the hay and filled with soft blankets, like a wild cat's moss nest. At the edge of it was his journal, and he carefully plucked it up and made a note of it on a fresh page, "December ninth, 2012. Another crazy mare came up to me pretending to be Moon. I miss her so much! I wish she would come back, but some part of me knows she's gone forever, although I will always long to know why. I heard something about a car crash... but I can't think that she's dead. I'd rather think she ran off with another male than think she's dead." He snapped the journal shut, putting it beside his pillow and looking at it rather protectively. He had written in it every day since Moon had disappeared. Looking around, he wondered what his daughter was doing. The child that Moon had left behind was one of the only things that had given him the will to stay alive (note, not sane). Aurora was the reason he still ate and breathed. He would live to see her mated and with children of her own if it killed him. Moon would have wanted that. The thought comforted him, and he sighed contentedly as he settled down to sleep, as he spent most of his days now.
"Poor Mom." Aurora gently shook her head, then glanced worriedly toward the stables. "I should probably go warn her about Dad. He just hasn't been the same since she left. There's something wrong with him, but I... I don't know exactly what it is. Sometimes it seems like he's not even himself anymore. I think it happened after a few of the mares teased him by pretending they were mom. Something in him snapped."
Sunny woke up and yawned, and decided it was a nice enough day to go outside for walk. After a few bites of hay, he stretched, then nonchalantly strolled outside, nearly bumping into Chippy as he did, he paused and smiled serenely at Bella, Chippy, and the new child . "Morning guys," He said, then strolled right on past, headed to Shay, who giggled as Sunny leaned in and kissed her without hesitation. "Morning, darling," She sang out, snuggling against him. They stared into each others eyes, completely enveloped in their own little world.
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