Meadow

She is young and desperate, only knowing that she must not let him find this little red treasure that even now does not get any less gloriously colored. Her white nose flickers with her first breaths even as she huddles behind her mother’s rump for some warmth. Libera is a richer hue, of course, but she is never going to be convinced that the filly wasn’t the most beautiful thing on four legs.

She asks for help and before long, the stranger has picked around her and her foal with care to deposit hard won raspberry leaves close to where her head had fallen onto the earth. Her eyes flutter a moment as they open and she obeys without hesitation. There was no reason to deny a faster death, if that was what this stranger had intended, rather than helping. To eat the raspberry leaves would not change her fate in any negative way.

When she had taken the majority into her mouth and had swallowed, she felt a sudden nudge at her withers and even as Kore tried to reason with her, the initial reaction was still a staggered leap to her feet for a lack of a sense of security still left in the world she lived. The withers had taken most of the brunt of his ill-humor, after all. The explanation does keep her from stampeding in a panic, When the young mother rises from the earth, it is as though the child has gotten the idea itself. It does not take long for the one to follow the other, even if Virgo is quite a bit more clumsy than her dam.