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Again! She’s done it again!

The little red mare cried the entire night, thinking how she’d brought her curse upon King Björn and those in the Inlet. If only she had been brave enough to warn him, maybe he could have driven her out of his home before it was too late. But Apolline had been greedy. She had enjoyed the warmth and love and safety of having a family again too much to spoil it. She kept telling herself she had meant to get around to confess her awful truth, but she never found the courage.

Now there was a new mare that’d taken over the Inlet and brought with her stallions. King Björn was nowhere to be found and Apolline feared the absolute worst.

Death follows you, Apolline. Get out!

Through her tears she threw herself haphazardly into an angry, storming ocean. Maybe the powerful, cold waves would chuck her body about until she hit a rock hard enough to lose consciousness. Maybe she could take herself out of this world before she hurt anyone else. Apolline did not want to die, but she couldn’t keep living now that she’d caused the fall of two kingdoms, right?

Unfortunately for her the storming sea did not deliver her upon the rocks, but pushed her further out into open waters. Apolline struggled, but swallowed seawater and was sucked under and pushed helplessly by strong waves until she wasn’t sure which direction she was swimming. All she knew as as soon as she could get the control to push with her limbs, she was doing it and she was doing it frantically to try and get to land. Her instincts kicked in over her emotional leap into the water and brought her trembling up on a distant shore, coughing and choking up sea water before she collapsed on the beach.

It was there she started to cry - big, dramatic wails - completely oblivious to where she was or who might overhear her.

apolline
along with the sunshine
there's gotta be a little rain some time