Desreal: [Any]

The days spilled recklessly before her churning legs and Delilah quickly forgot that she had been absent from The Element for so many weeks. Her face had contorted somewhat into an uncomfortable, wrinkled confusion and she certainly appeared less cheerful than only months before. Truthfully and although she could not find the reason herself, Delilah was struggling with her emotions after the birth of her first child, and so many different feelings clouded the normal tranquillity of her mind. The foal was four months old to the day, and he strolled wearily at her dragging heels. Casper had been forced into this rouge life of roaming that his mother had become trapped within, and although he knew no different, he longed to settle amongst the company of other young horses- and to live the life that a child should. He did not complain though, for he was most obedient and even beyond the stiff dependence he held over Delilah, he loved her dearly.

They cruised aimlessly for the third day through the dank misty boundaries of the Glade, rarely passing by another horse to Casper’s disappointment. He didn’t understand the strange shift in his mother’s personality (for she was bubbly and extroverted for days after they first met), but he dared not question her, no less pass judgement. “Um, Mother…” He began slowly, mid-yawn. “When will we head home?” The afternoon was quite balmy and a light sweat shimmered across the clean raven black of his flanks. He knew that should they have been in Andarin… home, this day, Delilah would have taken them deep down below the foothills of the range into the coolness of the gulley.

“I’m sorry son.” Delilah sighed guiltily and she turned then back to meet the colt’s bright gaze. She lumbered back to him and nuzzled affectionately all about his small, bony face. “We will go home soon.” Delilah withdrew her face and looked earnestly upon him. “I promise…” She added finally, and turned once more from him, continuing in the same manner and direction through the overgrown forest.

Delilah
unranked | lightning III + aurora australis | andarin