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"Mother?!" she croaks, her cerulean blue eyes rimmed with white. The fear crawls into her chest and scratches at her throat. Mother had told her to stay, to stay in Paradise with her father while she traveled to the Prairie with Jabari. She waited patiently on the sandy shores, and diligently she returned each day to greet her.
But she never came. Days stretched into weeks and still her mother never returned.
She steps throw the frothing surf. Despite the voice that warned her to stay in Paradise, she enters the sea and strikes out toward the distant shores. Her legs protest but she pushes and wills strength from them. For the first time in her young life she feels alone... Mother has always been there.
The sandy shore rises to meet her hooves and she stumbles through the surf. She falters as she brings her cerulean eyes up to gaze at the strange land that stretches out before her. All she has ever known is brilliant colored jungles and white sandy shores, but now she looks at a world that is completely alien. Her heart thunders against her ribs, the new scents assault her nostrils. Her ears flicker atop her crown with uncertainty.
Its not too late to turn back Ella. she quietly reminds herself.
She closes her eyes, sucks a deep breath in and steps onto the sandy shores. Her steps are cautious and her large eyes glance around. The world around her is colored in the deep crimsons and purples as the sun begins to dip below the horizon. She steps gingerly across the brittle grasses. Her head swivels atop her slender neck as she searches for any familiar faces. Mother. Demeter. Jabari?
A movement draws her attention, an unfamiliar face... but he is young. She dares to step closer to the spotted man. She swallows back the fear that threatens to clamp her throat shut.
"D-d-do you know what this place is ca-ca-called?" she stammers. She can feel warmth rise in her cheeks as she drops her cerulean eyes to the dirt and pebbles at her hooves. A single strand of forelock falls over her eye as she glances back up at him.
M I R E L L A starry eyed girl of Paradise
Mutt ~ Bay Dun ~ 2 years old ~ Rougaru x Calypso
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