Sleepy Fox Hollow mafic

she panted a little, lashes fluttering over her dark eyes. but in the exhaustion was a laugh, as much to encourage the colt as to greet her friend. the young horses were so close in age they might as well have been born together, raised as siblings even in maplesmoke's absence.

fancy accepted her idea, even as the band stallion announced himself. selenia whickered in message to colosseum, wondering what he thought of the idea. he was capable, and the hollow had proven fruitful, but proper grazing couldn't be had here. could it?

they would have to move.

selenia tugged on the boy's little mane. "a dancer. an oak. pippin," she decided, "pippin twofeather. a sapling now. a tree later."

she was happy, deliriously so, and nudged her son to begin again.