by birch. » Fri Nov 07, 2025 2:46 pm
Username: birch.
Name: Finn
Memory: "The Fondest memory you ask? Why...I would have to say it was the first snowfall I ever witnessed.
I wasn't more than nine months old my first winter. We could always tell when it was coming. The air turned from warm to bitter cold at night. Then the frosts came, which confused my tender mind that first year. How the dew would freeze on every blade of grass and the entire world seemed to shimmer in the low morning light as it broke over the horizon.
One particularly cold night, the herd moved into the trees nearest the valley and we all bedded down there. It was warmer, the trees working as a shield against the bitter winds that washed over us all, cooling you to your bones and causing you to nestle closer to one another just to sooth the slight ache it caused. But that night was different, something smelled more...fresh on the mountain air. Like a cleanse was coming, but at my age I thought little of it and drifted off to sleep beside my mother.
When I awoke the next morning, I felt something cold land on my nose, the air so cold I couldn't help but sneeze, before my eyes fluttered open and a whole new world lay out before me. The field I knew was not blanketed in white, the trees heavy with their new and growing burden, and the sun shimmered across the surface like a million tiny diamonds. It was beautiful, yet cold and unforgiving, but I couldn't help but be striken by awe at the sight. I knew nothing of the danger snow can put forth, and I do miss the days of being so naive.
I spent the entire day testing my speed in the deep and cold newfound friend, the other Foals and I rolling and romping in it. True youthful activities, things I envy to see now, because I am now burdened with what the adults of that time were burdened with. I will always look upon that memory with a smile, and that will never change."
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birch. on Sat Nov 08, 2025 6:11 am, edited 1 time in total.