{PRP} Just an Accident {IdoneaXAmelia Nox}

[Regal Renegade]

The sound of rushing water drove Amelia to keep walking. Her mother had kept them walking all night without hesitation or break for she did not feel safe in the surrounding area. The thirst she felt needed quenching and therefore the sound of a running river was the happiest sound in the world right now. Upon reaching the waters she dipped her nose in and took a deep drink, savoring the wetting of her parched throat. She noticed a few earwigs crawling around on the banks but paid them no mind for when they drew to near to her legs the burst into flames. Once she was done drinking she pulled her head back a little only to stare at her reflection. Glowing green eyes met her and caused her to feel sad. She looked nothing like her family and she often wondered if she had been better off going with the Wind Serpent mare when she had the chance. What would her heart decide? Killing or saving?  

[lysia_nyteblade]

She'd slipped, fell and blackness had closed over her after she'd crossed to the next bank. Still she laid there where she'd fallen, unconscious. She gave a small shiver as only slightly stirred, her muscles were beginning to dully ache from where she'd been laying on the stones. She'd been stupid, run off without her father there to keep watch over her as she played and now here she was, laying on the river rocks alone, cold, and aching. It was quiet.. so.. still.. would this be her last moments?  

[Regal Renegade]

After a moment of pondering the possible darkness within her soul Amelia decided to walk on, not wishing to remain here a moment longer. She picked her way gently through the rocks, her hooves hissing as water splashed up on them time and again. She still had no idea how the flames on her hooves managed to burn so brilliantly even in water. Her musings were interrupted when she spied something light colored and oddly shaped like a foal laying on the rocks. Her first instinct was to turn back and run, not wishing to be seen or mocked but there was something different about this foal. Though her mind kept telling her to make a break her heart compelled her to approach and see if it was alright. She drew carefully near, making sure she kept her eyes on the foal the entire time. When she got close enough to tell that it was a filly like herself she stretched out her neck and pressed her nose against the filly’s shoulder, gently nudging to see if she was alright.  

[lysia_nyteblade]

The nudge brought her mind too, brought her to fight for consciousness. "Nnnngg" She gave a small groan and opened blue eyes to peer about. Another filly, dark winged, and with.. glowing fire? She lifted her head to get a better look at the fire, peering at it curiously. It was as she looked at the other filly that she noticed something was off.. the air was still.. quiet.. wouldn't she hear at least something? An earwig scuttles down her neck, falling to the ground after it had done it's damage to her ears. The scuttling bug caused her to quiver and let out a screech, leaping to her hooves and bolting to hide behind the other filly before peering around her to the ground where the bug scuttled towards the light of the flaming hooves only to be burnt by them. "It Scared me!!" She hadn't meant to yell.. but yell she had, unable to hear herself puzzled her. How strange.. she spoke.. but... she couldn't hear it..  

[Regal Renegade]

Everything was so sudden that Amelia had no time at all to react. With a piercing screech the filly was hiding behind her watching as an earwig daring to get too close to her hooves turned to charcoal. A faint smile appeared on Amelia’s maw as she noticed that the filly had been more frightened of the bug than of her. So far she hadn’t been screamed at and the other foal hadn’t run away yet. She was just about to turn and speak to her when she let out a yell that left Amelia’s ears ringing. Squeezing her eyes shut she waited until the echoes stopped and looked back at the filly, she was only too happy to find that it wasn't out of fear for her that the little female had protested so. “Bugs are nasty little things.” She responded gently, agreeing that the ugly pests were less than amusing. She then thought of something, had the filly yelled because her hearing had been tampered with? She had heard of earwigs doing that. She kept her gaze locked with that of the filly she was now guarding, gauging her reactions.  

[lysia_nyteblade]

She stood there looking confused. She'd seen the moving of the other filly's mouth.. but.. nothing.. silence.. how.. odd.. what had caused this? "My ears!!!" Her eyes welled with tears as she started to panic. Why couldn't she hear anything?? What had happened??? Tears streamed down her face as she looked so lost... what would she do? Would this last for ever?? How would she know what others were saying now? Questions swirled around her mind as she stood there shocked and bewildered by the loss of her hearing. Shaking her head, she tried to pull herself together, tried to make sense of it all. Stretching out her neck, she lightly nudged the other filly and tried to speak at a volume that wouldn't hurt the other filly's ears. "Idonea...I'm Idonea" She managed a small whisper.. her vocal cords didn't vibrate so deeply as she spoke her name.

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[Regal Renegade]

Just as she had feared the filly had been unable to hear her speak. She looked to Idonea’s ears when she shouted about them but could make out no visible damage to the outer ear. Her eyes traveled downward and locked on teary eyes. Her expression softened and she felt bad for this lovely filly, she was beautiful and now she could not hear a thing. When she stated her name in a more fixed volume Amelia nodded in understanding. Stretching out her wing she placed it over the filly’s back and began walking away from the rocks, leading her to the soft sands. With her hoof she scratched her name into the beach. “A-M-E-L-I-A” She repeated as each letter was carved into the sand. She left her wing on Idonea in an attempt to comfort her. All fear she had of being mocked or screamed at went away as her brain fixated on helping this filly.  

[lysia_nyteblade]

She could feel the vibrations as the other filly spoke and pointed out each letter. "Ah-mee-ly-ah?" She was trying her best not to yell while she attempted to say the name written in the sand. Her ears gave a small wiggle as she hoped she got the name right. The wing over her back seemed to help comfort her. At least she wasn't alone now.. she felt some how better that she wasn't enduring this alone. She looked at Amelia and waited to see if she'd shake her head or nod to le her know if she'd gotten it right or botched it up.  

[Regal Renegade]

Amelia nodded gently as Idonea spoke her name; giving her encouragement that she had done it right. She had more questions to ask but didn’t know how to ask them, she hadn’t ever experienced someone whose hearing had gone bad. This was obviously a recent development otherwise it probably wouldn’t be concerning her as bad. Over exaggerating the motion she began to flick her ears about, in a way asking about Idonea’s ears and if she knew what had happened to them. She wasn’t sure the filly would know what she was talking about so she drew a question mark in the sand and began flicking her ears once again. “What…Happened?” She asked slowly, shaping her maw to fit each letter in an attempt to get the message across. She couldn’t even imagine what the filly must be going through right now and it tugged at the strings of her heart. She didn’t remove her wing nor did she step away from the filly, she would help her through this somehow.  

[lysia_nyteblade]

She watched Amelia's ears wiggling then looked to the question mark in the sand, tilting her head off to the side some. She glanced back at the other filly's ears before it struck her what she had asked. She responded with a small shrug and a sigh. All she knew was she' been playing and crossed the water behind them before slipping on the rocks. when she'd come too everything was.. still.. silent.. her world no longer had sound only.. vibrations and smells. "I don't know.." She managed to mumble, giving a small shiver. she was growing more fearful as her confusion with the loss of her hearing. "I fell.. and then... woke to see you but.. no sound.." she could feel her throat clench as she swallowed to keep from crying once more.  

[Regal Renegade]

Amelia listened to Idonea explain how she was just as confused about the situation and gave a small reassuring smile. The last thing she wanted to do was to make Idonea worry more by frowning. She was half tempted to go and get her mother but figured it would be a bad idea to just leave. The wheels in her mind where whirring and clicking as she attempted to figure out a solution. What should she do? She had managed to communicate with Idonea but how much longer could she figure out ways of asking her questions? She needed to know where she lived and where her parents were. Inhaling deeply she looked around her, eyeing the tall lush trees and the river behind them. Maybe the filly’s hearing would return? Perhaps this wasn’t permanent damage. Her glowing eyes turned to Idonea and once again went to her hears, again nothing outwardly wrong. “Can..You..Hear...At…All?” She bit into each syllable, forming the words with her mouth in an attempt to get the message across. She didn’t know if she could read lips but she was trying her best.  

[lysia_nyteblade]

She pressed her nose to the other filly's neck in order to better feel the vibrations of the other's words as she spoke. It took her a moment of watching her mouth and feeling the vibrations before she frowned and shook her head. "Vibrations..." She pawed at the ground some. it was a little frustrating going form hearing and playing like a normal filly to having nothing but.... silence all around... "You think maybe... hear bump caused it?" at least she was able to talk.. though trying to judge off of pure vibrations how loud or softly she was speaking was like a crab shoot.  

[Regal Renegade]

She flinched only a little when the filly touched her, normally she got strange looks or others ran away before she even got a word out. She figured it probably had something to do with the fact that she had just lost her hearing and needed a shoulder, any shoulder, to lean on. She nodded, letting the other know she understood and that her volume had not disturbed her. When Idonea asked her if she thought the fall is what caused the hearing loss she looked back over to where she had found her only to spot a few earwigs crawling over the rocks. Realization struck her and suddenly it was all tied together, the earwig on her neck that had been burned up before and her sudden loss of hearing. Her eyes searched around them, looking for another one closer by so she could motion to it. One came crawling across her line of sight and she angled herself so Idonea could see it as she motioned toward it with her hoof.  

[lysia_nyteblade]

She gave a shudder at the sight of the bug and quickly stomped on it. She was big for a filly her age but that was mostly credited to her parents both had been drafts and her father was a rather large draft at that. "That??? Ewwwww." She felt cold, sick something like that nasty critter has crawled into her ear and taken her hearing. "then it's... lost?"  

[Regal Renegade]

Amelia leaned closer to Idonea, touching her shoulder to hers in an attempt to further comfort her. She angled her hooves away so she wouldn’t burn her but was certain the filly could most likely feel the warmth of the flames. Her face dropped but she wouldn’t allow for Idonea to see it, she couldn’t be certain as to whether or not the damage was permanent. She had never come across anything like this before. Shrugging her shoulders and shaking her head she signaled to the filly that she was unsure of an answer. “It…Will…Be…Okay.” She enunciated once again, trying hard to keep Idonea from panicking or becoming too sad.