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I'm dreaming, she thought. There's no other explanation for it. Fourteen years I've been swimming that route and I've never seen this place.

Her dark eyes were round with wonder and trepadation as they passed over the barren winter landscape she saw before her. The midmorning sun was doing it's best to dry the still damp mare from the lingering touch of the ocean, but she was warm enough as it was. The home from which she'd swam had been much colder than even these winter-touched lands.

"Are those... real trees?" She muttered aloud, hardly aware of doing so. With a little squeal of delight she raced toward the tall limbed structure and touched the rough bark with her muzzle. Well, it feels real enough. The few 'trees' that grew in her homeland were hardly more than hip high and had small sharps that poked you if you weren't wary. Curious, she stretched her head up so that her gaze could follow the branch upward until it tapered into nothing against the bright blue of the sky.

Confusion clouded her brow and she squinted at the bare branch above her head. "I thought they were supposed to have like... hmm, what do you call them?"

What were they called? They were supposed to be like grass, but not as good to eat; at least according to the traveler that had told her of such things. And they were supposed to grow on these branches, way up in the sky. Plus they even turned colors in the heat months. The pony mare stretched one petite hoof out to the tree, and then pushed up so that she could glare at the branch more closely, bracing her hooves on the trunk.

From her elevated position, the branches were still stubbornly empty but with a sudden flash of rememberance, the mare shouted. "LEAVES! Yes, where are the leaves?"

Satisfied with her small victory, even if it raised other questions, the dark mare pushed off from the tree trunk to land with a bounce. A grin spread over her lips as she looked around for someone to share her knowledge with. Maybe there was someone here who knew where the leaves had gone? She usually had someone for company in her dreams. Horses weren't meant to be alone after all.

MARE . PONY CROSS . 14 HANDS . HOMELESS . LOVEINSPIRED