by .Arrow » Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:08 pm
Username:221B Baker Street
Show Name: No Doubt
Barn Name: Certainty
Gender: Mare
Age: 5 Years
Breed: Mustang
Height: 15.2 hh
Color: Sooty Buckskin Tovero
Story: Certainty definitely needs to live up to her name. She was one of the clumsiest foals ever to roam the earth, stepping in rabbit holes, falling in streams, getting her mane or tail stuck in thorn bushes... You name it, it happened to her. There was one incident, though, that Certainty still looks back and shudders just thinking about it. It gave her one of her worst fears: heights.
It had started out a beautiful spring morning, the air crisp, the sun shining, not a cloud in the sky. Certainty had wandered over to the corner of the meadow where there was a thick grove of oak trees, tripping no less than three times. These trees were ancient, trunks thick around as three adult horses bodies and branches as wide as her own. A squirrel chattered a good bit up the tree, where the branches were at their thickest. It was practically daring the young filly to climb up after it! It just so happened that the branches to this particular tree formed a sort of stairway to the part of the tree that Certainty wanted to reach.
She tentatively placed a hoof on the lowest branch. It held. She then started climbing, gaining more and more speed with surprisingly very little slips. That should have been a stop sign for the foal, but she kept going. When she finally reached the point where the squirrel was, she stopped and looked down. The ground loomed before her, and she started trembling as she stepped onto the next branch down. Certainty's aim was off, and her hoof slipped, causing her to scramble back onto the branch. Somehow, she ended up with four legs dangling in the air. She screamed for help, and after it finally came it took hours to get the poor filly down from that tree.