Duck Lake youth is wasted on the young

meant to be an outrider thread :D

Because you'll never be as young as you're right now, his voice rang into her ears making its way into her brain. That was what her beloved daddy, Freud, had told her the day he had taught her and her sisters how to swim. At first she had been afraid to leap into the water and had told her father she would do it when she was a bit older. It had been a nice day, at least it seemed that way in Cara's memories.

They had gotten up early to go with daddy to a little lake near the den they lived in. Ophelia and Dianne, her sisters sent from hell had groaned and moaned all the way there, while the even younger version of Cara trailed along happily after his father's feet. After a bit of arguing Cara finally took her father's well given advice and jumped in, breaking the shackles of fear that had held her back.

It wasn't often that the beige yearling thought about her childhood, considering it wasn't such a happy time for her, yet seeing this small lake in front of her made the long repressed memories come afloat again.

"I'm still younger than I'll be tomorrow" she mumbled as she dipped her toe on the water ever so slowly, while the crowd of ducks gather around cheered her on.