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Milky eyes widened without sight, heartbeat rattling the delicate bones of her rib-cage. He was approaching her now, she could feel him in every sense of the word – each nearing step sent a soft pulse through her hooves, his presence flooding her space like chilly water; unnerving, biting at her heels beseeching escape. Her breaths were short and distressed, ears wildly swiveling to catch every minuscule sound the stallion caused as he neared the small frightened mare.

Adalet had never been a social creature. Even at a very young age, she'd avoided the association of others. Always running off to play in the woods by her lonesome rather than enjoy the company of others, or sometimes she would run and hide from her mother and father and spend days and nights alone in the damp darkness – she begun to do it so often that eventually they stopped even looking for her.

She was wild. Afraid. Detached from reality, it seemed. It was a wonder she hadn't listened to her instinct to flee from the man who had now halted before her. Perhaps there was something within her, something deep down buried in the marrow of her brittle bones that longed for something other than the quiet nights and little flowers, something that her plants could not provide, something more.

He stopped at a respectable distance, but she still yet quivered at his nearness. Welcome to my home. She jolted at the sound of his deep voice filling the empty air. She stumbled backward two steps, amber tail tucking beneath her. My name is Amadeus, the king here.

She took a deep breath, swallowing his earthy masculine scent as she mustered up the courage it took to speak, a tremble quaking her pure voice. "I– I am Adalet," she tripped over the words, pausing briefly before she continued. "I did not mean to intrude – "

A timid thing, she was.

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