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Posted on August 15, 2016 at 09:04:45 PM by Vinyl

Was I left behind?
Tell me, tell me I survived.

It wasn't late. But the purple sky was still heavy overhead. Not even the puffy grey summer clouds were visible at this hour, not even when the night was darkest. But for whatever reason, Paradiso was awake, his imagination helping him pass the time while his mother dosed quietly next to him. The young stallion could see the silhouette of his brother Shamwari, pacing in the distance.

It didn't take the boy long to realize Ostara hadn't come to bed in for the night with the rest of them. Paradiso was really enjoying getting to know the young girl. She was so much braver than he was. But he quietly liked how she pushed him to go on adventures with her. The Prairie was so full of life now, compared to what it was like just months ago when he was even littler, when it was just his mother and his half brother in this place. Evaline had told him fantastic stories about how brave his father was. He was spotted just like Paradiso, too. Maybe with Ostara's help, Paradiso could be brave too.

Perhaps it was that notion that drove him from his mother's side when he realized Ostara wasn't around. Quietly, the lanky boy rose to all four and ambled quietly out of sight -- his blue eyes peeled for the thick and growing frame of his gypsy friend.

It didn't take long for him to pick up her scent. Paradiso found himself trotting off after it through the tall reeds. He was more than a year old now and was nearing his full height, but the tall grasses here still tickled his belly as he trotted through. Paradiso came to a halt though almost immediately when he spotted her. She was bravely trotting around a stranger, a foreigner, an intruder. His small heart began to beat furiously in his chest. All the danger alarms in his mind were sounding off, and he struggled with the decision not to up and run back to his mom and Shamwari. But instead, Paradiso put his worries aside and descended upon the pair, eager and anxious to reach Ostara and convince her to come back to the herd.

His small hooves hit the ground in light and bouncy steps until he reached them. "Ostara! They're going to know we're missing. We must go back!" He pleaded, perhaps not the first time his fear had caused him to do so while on adventures with her. This was the first time Paradiso was able to get a good look at the stallion she was standing with up close, and there he froze again. Paradiso never met his father. Evaline said he was called away on some grand adventure before he was born. Was this Valentine? Was this appaloosa intruder not an intruder at all? "Um, you're not my dad, are you?"

He asks bluntly with the flick of his tail before slinking up as close to Ostara as possible, almost cowering behind her.

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They're Catching Onto Us - By Paradiso August 15, 2016 at 09:17:43 PM

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