I would honestly love you now,
But I would lovingly let you down.
His heart beat so furiously, it deafened nearly all the sound around him. His whiskered nostrils flared and the sides of his thin barrel rose and fell in sharp staccato breaths. Jabari felt his gut churn tight with anger, in the aftermath of his lash out against Celestria. Her words echoed in his mind even now, minutes after they'd passed.
Staring at her now, full in the face, forced Jabari to relive the horror of his past mistakes all over again. Because of her, he had been torn from Petal and his girls. Because of her, he had been banished to the Lagoon. It was this recurring nightmare he just couldn't seem to wake up from. When the fuck was this going to end?
His breathing was still shallow and irregular when his copper-colored ears flicked forward at the sound of a mass moving through the brush. Twigs snapped and branches rattled until the silver bay stallion emerged through the thicket and shot straight for him. Rougaru was a large stallion, tall and wide, and he nearly dwarfed Jabari on his brash approach. Their bodies collided, and Jabari braced himself for the impact. He stumbled back a few steps, but regained his balance once a few feet of distance is placed between them. The painted stallion stared back at Rougaru with a scowl, his blue eyes narrowed into tight slits and his ears laced atop his skull.
Jabari squealed when Rougaru landed a sharp bite against his neck, but he doesn't scurry away. Instead, the stallion righted himself, and stood stiffly in the larger brute's presence. "Go to hell, Rougaru." He said gruffly, well aware his words and his tone were likely to provoke the stallion to attack again. "Do your worst, you piece of shit. Let me know how it feels to beat up on some already emaciated slave."
"You know I came from the Lagoon, right? I've been working for your friend Cullen." He blurted out next, not in an effort to save his own skin, but to let the dumb brute know whose side he'd been forced to play on, at least for a little while. Rougaur was short-tempered - but maybe he'd at least stand to hear some kind of reason.
Only then did Jabari notice the filly at Rougaru's side, cowering a bit now after the scuffle. He could piece together the resemblance it shared to Celestria, and he scoffed a laugh when it dawned on him. A mad, eerie grin etched its way across his whiskered lips as he weighed whether or not he should say it. Hell, Jabari had nothing else to lose. Fuck it. "You know, I put a baby in her, too." His blue eyed gaze hardened then, as he stared up at the King of Paradise. He snorted again, and flicked his brown tail over his skinny haunches, then turned on his forehand to travel back down the dense jungle path.
"Fuck all of you!" He called out as he left.
Stallion | Brienne x Shamwari | Chesnut Overo | 15.2 h| Photo © Carina Mailwald | © Vinyl |
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