08-11-2019, 11:58 AM
Her world is totally upside down. She and her siblings had been together for ages, knowns only each other, the feel of their mother’s heartbeat and the faint sounds of her curses and sassy remarks every now or then, when she turned down whomever approached.
Today all that had changed - pressure forced the three of them together, and then the white and green girl (she didn’t know the colours yet, nor what they all looked like) made her way out first - the fearless conquerer or the new world.
Once out, she found the voice and scent that belonged to her mother, and enjoyed her caresses. Still cold, the filly only knew the one word that was outed belonged to her. Tauti - something so meaningfully placed on her that she would remember. But her mother couldn’t spare all her time on Tauti alone, and the girl lay shivering in wait, for her sister to join her.
When Sota came, the nearly-white girl could confirm that Tauti was her name, since she was addressed with it and then Sota was the name of the other one. The girl nodded a bit, accepting the responsibility of watching over her littler sister, and didn’t flinch when mother pulled away a second time. That was all natural. The pool of blood did nothing to her, as it came with her accepting the world around her for what it currently was. So it was all natural that the third existence from her former world joined them, and that mother passed away shortly after that. Sad, but it was the way it should apparently go.
She watched the movement of her little brother with blinking interest, then nudged her sister and they both did the same thing; nurse while they could.
They were interrupted (Tauti at least was), by a shadow: a male, with horns like hers and her siblings, and green similar to Sota’s points (she hadn’t noticed her own mane and tail yet). Tauti’s red eyes examined him thoroughly. Afraid? She tilted her head and shook it when he mentioned it. Fear wasn’t an emotion she currently felt - all this happened just when she arrived on the world, and so it was the normal way of things.
He stressed the word home and she looked at her dead mother, but perhaps he meant something else because it seemed like he didn’t mean her mother.
Another appeared, asking a question. Shocked, the eldest triplet looked at the mare and the foal. That mother was alive, and the sibling was only one. Tauti looked from her (City) to her own mother, and figured that perhaps if one had three babies then it made sense for her to die, because she was supposed to only have one. Yes, that must be right. An eye for an eye of sorts, for having so many babies.
But the other adult family member, with his horns and greens, asked Tauti something important. Names. Now, that was a word she didn’t know, but it felt like something fundamental, so she outed hers. ”Tauti.” Then, she moved to sort-of kick her sister from their position on the earth, and said, ”Sota.” It seemed important that he knew them, after all. ”Nälkä,” she added, after her brother made a whimper (possibly a protest of not being named, though he hadn’t seemed interested in the others. But perhaps she had been wrong about that.
@[Clayton] @[City]
I’ll do one foal-post each round containing the actions of all three, for the sake of the timeline and keeping the amount of post I’m writing, down
Today all that had changed - pressure forced the three of them together, and then the white and green girl (she didn’t know the colours yet, nor what they all looked like) made her way out first - the fearless conquerer or the new world.
Once out, she found the voice and scent that belonged to her mother, and enjoyed her caresses. Still cold, the filly only knew the one word that was outed belonged to her. Tauti - something so meaningfully placed on her that she would remember. But her mother couldn’t spare all her time on Tauti alone, and the girl lay shivering in wait, for her sister to join her.
When Sota came, the nearly-white girl could confirm that Tauti was her name, since she was addressed with it and then Sota was the name of the other one. The girl nodded a bit, accepting the responsibility of watching over her littler sister, and didn’t flinch when mother pulled away a second time. That was all natural. The pool of blood did nothing to her, as it came with her accepting the world around her for what it currently was. So it was all natural that the third existence from her former world joined them, and that mother passed away shortly after that. Sad, but it was the way it should apparently go.
She watched the movement of her little brother with blinking interest, then nudged her sister and they both did the same thing; nurse while they could.
They were interrupted (Tauti at least was), by a shadow: a male, with horns like hers and her siblings, and green similar to Sota’s points (she hadn’t noticed her own mane and tail yet). Tauti’s red eyes examined him thoroughly. Afraid? She tilted her head and shook it when he mentioned it. Fear wasn’t an emotion she currently felt - all this happened just when she arrived on the world, and so it was the normal way of things.
He stressed the word home and she looked at her dead mother, but perhaps he meant something else because it seemed like he didn’t mean her mother.
Another appeared, asking a question. Shocked, the eldest triplet looked at the mare and the foal. That mother was alive, and the sibling was only one. Tauti looked from her (City) to her own mother, and figured that perhaps if one had three babies then it made sense for her to die, because she was supposed to only have one. Yes, that must be right. An eye for an eye of sorts, for having so many babies.
But the other adult family member, with his horns and greens, asked Tauti something important. Names. Now, that was a word she didn’t know, but it felt like something fundamental, so she outed hers. ”Tauti.” Then, she moved to sort-of kick her sister from their position on the earth, and said, ”Sota.” It seemed important that he knew them, after all. ”Nälkä,” she added, after her brother made a whimper (possibly a protest of not being named, though he hadn’t seemed interested in the others. But perhaps she had been wrong about that.
@[Clayton] @[City]
I’ll do one foal-post each round containing the actions of all three, for the sake of the timeline and keeping the amount of post I’m writing, down