The Newcomers

[Aria]

No please no, stop no don’t touch me. She squealed as the large brute laughed and came closer to her, using the earthy vines to keep her in place, his massive 18 hh frame came crashing down on her 15 hh frame, the thorns cut into her legs, she whimpered softly as he had his way with her, violently tugging on her tresses and leaving her battered, broken and scared. Her pillars twitched as she dreamed, she couldn’t stop the nightmare, it kept playing over and over again in her head until the wails of her week old daughter woke her. Maria what on earth is wrong. She spoke, I had a nightmare mommy a big scary thing was coming at me, she chuckled. What did this thing look like honey? It was big and had eight legs and was coming to eat me! Maria squealed, oh honey its only a spider you dreamed about, but mommy this wasn’t just any spider it was a monster spider that eated things like little baby horseys. She found her daughter squealing again and it made her pin her harks. Now now Maria try to get some sleep you shouldn’t be so scared of petty things in life, spiders are little and we can squish them if we see them. Maria nodded and lowered her head going back to sleep, however Aria couldn’t go back to sleep and sighed watching the now rising sun, the sorral colored frame that belonged to Aria was dotted with scars and marks from the rape back in her home lands in which she had left shortly after fearing her safety and her unborn daughter at the time. Her lower pillars also had scars but the blended more in with the four ivory socks she had. Half her face was white and she had a small white spot on the side of her barrel, she wasn’t anything special to look at, she was dull and plan in her thoughts and she could never see a brute falling in love with her. Though she was still fearful of them, she knew she had to at least try to move on for the sake of her daughter who needed a father figure in her life. She had made a makeshift home, in the lower ring, it’s the only place she could afford to be right now, her daughter had witnessed the stealing of someone last night and Aria feared her safety to even think to let her go play with the other foals. Her daughter was the same color only she sported three ivory socks, a bigger spot that creeped up the side of her belly and she had a large blaze in the center of her face. Aria had only been a mother a week and was still learning everything, it was hard on her to lie to her daughter as to where her father was, telling her he had died in a battle but he was still a hero in her orbs. If only that were true, she wouldn’t have had to leave her home lands to hide her face from everyone who pointed and laughed knowing what had happened to her. She snorted and stood shaking her frame she stepped out in front of her makeshift home and looked around, any and everyone who was here kind of just did their own thing and she felt left out it was weird to be in a new place, new lands and lets not forget she didn’t know her way around this place. She sighed and flicked her banner across her flanks out of habit. She was trying to think if she could really see herself here and if this really was home.