All I could remember of my venture was the want to be home.  To curl into the safety of my mother's breast and feel the soft touch of my brothers muzzle upon my skin.  I had wanted to warn them of the terrors I had witnessed, but how could I.  No words would escape my lips.  They could not possibly know my deepest fears by just the panic that radiated from my eyes.  They would not know the dangers that lurked outside our safe haven.  But these are childish worries.  Perhaps they did already know...

In a whirlwind of events, my mind was lost to darkness.  I had wandered endlessly in an abyss of confusion. Lost.  I often found myself staring into the skies above, seeking direction and counsel.  The stars remained silently hung out of reach, leaving me to my wanderings.  Occasionally I chose one to follow, the brightest of all, but alas it would disappear with the light of day and I would be alone again.  

After many days, maybe weeks, my body had taken on the reflection of the sky I envied.  No longer would I need to search for the stars, as they clung tightly to my sides.  Often finding my magic in the night, I would sprinkle myself in stardust, watching the twinkling of light illuminate the darkness around me. 

In these weeks after, I had grown substantially.  My unsure stance became poised, each placement of hoof transported me quickly from one destination to the next.  Spending my days leisurely plucking at the sweet grasses, I avoided contact with the many others I had come across.  I was different and so I kept to myself, sneaking along the outer edges of lands, just out of view.  The wide expanse of the meadow lie to my right as I picked my way along the forest's edge.  A falling of silver-lavender forelock draped across the left side of my profile, my right eye was ever vigilant to any activity in the grasses.

If I had been spotted, and another took interest in me, I would be quick to wrap myself in a nearly invisible cloak.  Leaving the stranger to wonder if perhaps I had been a figment of their imagination. In my hiding I would watch them blink in wonder, finding myself longing for companionship but too shy to take the leap.

My curiosity would get the better of me someday, but until then I was content on remaining a shadow.  It wasn't hard with my preferences of living an active nightlife.  Even tonight as the spring airs chills just the slightest, I call on the stars above to comfort me, to kiss my flesh in rays of light. They would satisfy my cravings tonight...

A gentle breeze came up from behind me unexpectedly and I snorted, ears twisting back to find if another had been it's cause.  My steps cease and my head tips just the slightest to view a stretch of stagnant darkness trailing me.  My vibrant eyes shift nervously at first, but upon finding myself still alone my heart begins to slow pace.  

Perhaps my focus on what had been just the wind, distracted me enough to not notice the moonlit form steadily approaching from my left.  My view began to leave the empty space behind me, only to latch onto the now too close stallion.  Violet ears fall to my tensed neck as I contemplate hiding within the night.  Seeing as my position was now exposed, hiding seemed cowardice now.  So I watch with white rimmed eyes as the bright figure approaches slowly.  A scent upon the night air unveiled his gender and potential place of residency.  Smelling of fragrant earth tones of a land I have only brimmed once before.  It had an aura about it that was unsettling, little did I know the history under the boughs of redwood.

His pace was even and so I settled just the slightest, a toss of my silver lavender tail my only movement.  The stars of my pelt dim slightly, a testament of my uncertainty.  I had been different as a child; carefree, curious, outgoing.  These attributes had vanished when I found myself unable to communicate properly.  And of course the trauma of what I had witnessed in the land of the deserted.  The resurfacing image causing me to shudder before my thoughts find the stranger once again...

I wasn't a child any longer, nor was I grown.  I was lost someplace in the middle.  Still finding my purpose in life and still unsure of so many things.  My eyes follow his nearing form, waiting for what would come next...