Falls

Lifting my softly curved ears, I set my hearing upon the distance. Blinking open my heterochromatic eyes, I scan the land before me with a questioning look to my gaze. I had never been here before, in this string of islands. Everything here was new to me, which brought forth the question as of why? What was the person of bringing me here and why had I been dumped off in a place that obviously had seen a flood recently? Nothing made sense, but here I was.

Hi! My name is Abyzou and welcome to my story.
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Moving through the Fall’s with my tail softly flicking at my hocks, my gaze flickered over everything around me. The birds chirped in the distance and they seemed to blend in with the soft rushing of water coming from the Falls a distance away. Perking my ears towards it, my hooves finally seemed to slowly stop. The scent of sweet grass coated my nostrils and a grin curved my lips, begging to turn into a full smile. This place was tranquil, seeming to be at peace with everything around it. The soft grasses that tickled my ankles had once pulled a giggle from me but now as I stood there among the spring softness all I wished to do was curl up in them and rest under the raising suns light.

Turning to face the south, my eyes twinkled faintly before I shook my head with a snort. My body shook with the action, all of me seeming to wave like an oceans current before once again my hooves were moving over the grass and heading to look at the body of water that the Fall’s fell into. I was excited to see my reflection, to see if maybe the ocean had washed away the mark upon my fast and shoulder that showed I had done something in the womb with my sister… or who I had thought was my sister. I was ruined on the outside, but that never brought forth the feeling of the inner turmoil my looks brought to me.

Stepping onto that of the lakes soft sandy beach, I looked down into the water only to flinch. Upon my face was the half crescent moon like mark of the overo in my blood that blossomed to cover almost my full face. Chestnut hairs curled around my blue eye and farther down my face and neck on the left hand side of me. On the right… my horrible existence stared right back at me. My somatic mutation had my body covered in grey hair, marking my frame with its lackluster touch. I hated that part of me, how it ruined the whole right hand side of my neck and that front leg. It made me a monster, someone that was fitting of the name Abyzou as my mother had told me.

Striking out with a front leg, I hit my reflection with a strong stomp that had the water’s surface rippling as water now dripped from my lips and chin, now curled in a monstrous snarl. My green and blue eyes blazed back at me, the anger palpable in my reflection before I jerked myself away from the water and gave a scream, my hooves striking the ground in anger filled stomps. If I had it my way, I would cut my own skin from my body instead of having to see this reflection of myself. I hated it, all of it. The reflection back there showed who I was… what I really was. There was no kindness in my blood, none of that sweet and cutesy stuff that people would love to place with horses like me. Thoroughbreds were known to be caring horses, their need for human interaction high depending on their background. That reflection showed a monster, one that had killed its own sibling.

Shaking my head with a loud snort, I shot my gaze up and glared at the sun. It was gorgeous, don’t get me wrong, but I could not see it anymore. I was ugly, a monster. I wanted to be hidden by the dark of a moonless night so that I could not even see myself. Sighing though, I turned my gaze from the sun and found shade under a large tree, its dark branches slightly hiding the main focus of my body and helping it hide int he marking upon my face as I hid my grey side against the tree, not wanting anyone to see it.