
There were so many beautiful kin in the swamp. Her brother and sisters, her parents, so why was she so... plain? Ugly even? She always looked on her family with longing, wondering why she looked so... different from them.
But it didn't matter now. She had wandered away so they wouldn't need to be seen with her. There was no reason to stand beside her family and make others wonder how such a beautiful family could have had a girl like her. So she had, in a sense, exiled herself from her family to wander the swamp and hope that she could just... hide. Her dark pelt did afford her easier camouflage, but her glowing purple spots did not. As the daylight faded, she was more and more aware of herself, of her spots glowing and standing out against the growing darkness. Wasn't there somewhere to hide for the night where she wouldn't be seen?
As she was pondering this, looking for a place to hide; a thick brush patch, a large tangle of mangrove roots, a cave; she heard the hoof falls of another down wind of her. She paused, nose in the air a moment. She couldn't catch a scent. whomever was approaching, she wasn't sure who it was, so she backed up a few steps. Maybe... she could pass as fireflies if she swayed? No, that was silly. She scolded herself for thinking such a thing, and so, stood there, looking at where the footfalls came from.