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My bones shakes for you my loveUsername: Belloblossom
Pony's Name: Diana (named for the Roman goddess of the hunt.)
Temperament: Enigmatic
Prompt response: [a] You've always been this way. You've never known any other life style. Others around you are confused, they sometimes ask you if you're alright. They never judge you outwardly, but you can tell there's something wrong and that you're not like the rest. But then there she is. She's different too. And it's nice...

Diana's life wasn't an easy one, this much was not to be denied. The first look her father, a full-blooded Kalona, had given her was one of disappointment. He didn't explain it to her, but Diana had heard the arguments he'd had with her mother. She had been born a filly, not a colt, and if that were not enough, she didn't display all of the Kalona traits. Her mother, being a mare of sensibility said that she couldn't change her daughter's appearance if she'd wanted to! Her last words to Diana's father was that he could get his "Kalona purist attitude" out of her swamp and stay out! Her mother, regular Soquili though she was, certainly could be vocal when she wanted to and her father, having no desire to stay left promptly.

Her mother raised her daughter alone for the rest of her foalhood, but this wasn't easy for either party. Diana had inherited one other trait from her father: The hunger for meat and for blood. She had taught herself how to hunt and she even went so far as to show it off to her mother, decorating her young self in the bones of her meals. Their bones fascinated her, but quite unfortunately, they distressed her mother. While sensible and not at all frightened of the slime of the swamp, nor the glares of a full Kalona Soquili, seeing her daughter prance about in the bones of what were once living all while in the knowledge that these were all creatures Diana had eaten? Well, that was a bit unnerving and her mother couldn't help thinking of whether Diana's hunger would grow to larger, Soquili-sized prey.

It was when Diana was fully grown that her mother suggested she go out into the world and look for others with her diet, so that she might find herself in the company of others like herself. This was the reasoning her mother had given her, but by that age Diana was old enough to suspect that her mother was simply trying to get her to leave the swamp. Diana had no desire to cause her mother any more stress than she may've already, so without a long farewell, the Kalona halfbreed set out.

How tragic it was when a new traveler found herself surrounded by Soquili that mirrored both of her parents perfectly. The Kalona that she had managed to meet were as brutish and as "purist" as her father had been. All of the other Soquili she had met were passive-aggressive at best, giving her wary sideways looks and making comments at the snake's head she wore about her neck, which hinted at their disapproval or disgust when she paraded such items around.

It wasn't long before Diana believed that she would never find another Soquili who would accept her for the life she was born into and with this belief, she began to search for a home that would keep her away from raised eyebrows and frowning mouths.

The home that she found ended up being a rosebush thicket that had just enough room inside it for a single Soquili to lay inside. It had a very narrow path to get into this space, but Diana was hopeful that any passing Soquili would find the thorns repelling and keep away from her home. It took her some time to settle and she only went out early in the morning or just before dark when she had to tend to her needs. On one of her "almost nighttime" strolls, she found that not far from her thicket was a large oak tree that an owl resided in. Upon the following morning, when she went to the tree she found that a pellet had been dropped and often the bones inside were of mice or rats or other small creatures, whose ribs and legs could be like feathers for some Soquili: woven into the tail or mane... If Diana were to ever grow out her mane, that was.

It was early one morning, when Diana was just leaving her rose thicket to go look for such bones, that she met her for the first time. The pink mare had a thick beautiful mane and tail and crimson eyes that simply pulled in Diana's own, but what really did it was her smile. How long at it been since someone had smiled at Diana like that? Too long and Diana was feeling it at full force now. The mare introduced herself with a voice that could summon joy from anyone, Diana was certain. Venus? A lovely name for the beautiful mare.

Suddenly stuck between the notion that she should speak versus the desire to jump back into her thorny thicket, Diana found herself fumbling over words and then her legs, which caused her to stumble into the roses and thorns that the mare was standing before. Diana's ears flattened in embarrassment and she grimaced,
"I-I'm Diana." She said, her eyes raising to the mare's. She gave a sheepish smile and got up, her legs scratched and stinging from the thorns that had tangled themselves around the Kalona halfbreed's legs. Owl pellets long forgotten, Diana spent her morning with Venus as her scratches were tended to. So warm and welcoming was the opposite mare's voice that a conversation was soon in progress and Diana thought on how finally she'd met a mare who would accept her for her. It was such a refreshing thought that Diana had eventually found the courage to say, "You know, Venus? I think I'm falling in love with you too."

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