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While the honest and true are the worst of us.

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A pained sound escaped white washed lips as trembling hooves heaved themselves up a mountain. The emotion known as fear lined the creatures face, but one look into their eyes would show a bottomless pit of nothing. Everything ached across their body, but it didn't stop their forward movements. Blood left a trail behind them, leading back to where the red roan mare had come from.

Trembling from pure exhaustion, Canine found herself whispering to a pale creature that barely managed to hobble itself behind her. The filly was still damp, but it hadn't stopped Canine from escaping her birthplace for the last time. Instead, the daughter of a monster pushed herself and her newborn that was born a week early up the mountain pass and trails towards the Peak.

Locking away everything she knew, Canine breathed out shaking breaths as her body limped upward. At her side, Mimic walked on cloven styled hooves. The mimicking great grandchild of Tyr had been born with a defect. With a rare form of polydactyly, Mimic had two toes instead of one. Both ended in hooves, but they looked more like an elks or a cows. Being a pale hue and with a defect, it hadn't aided Canine in escaping her sire when Mimic splatted onto the ground and sent him into an even worse rage. Let alone Mimic was a female instead of a male.

Forcing herself to stay in the present, Canine managed to find a flat spot at the top of the Peak. Trembling with her sides heaving, she slowly turned her head and began to finish cleaning off her daughter and anything upon herself that made her foals scent drift worse. It was difficult with all of her injuries, but Canine just let herself bleed from the hoof marks upon her body and the teeth punctures. She could heal herself later, but for now she needed to put on the face of a helpless mare searching for refuge to save herself and her daughter.

CANINE

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mare | 16.2hhs | red roan | peak

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