The trees stretched upward their branches doing their best to touch the edge of the sky as if trying to pluck the clouds out of the air with their long thin fingers. What little leaves left danced along the edge of the breeze as the blue eyes watched briefly for a moment before turning their attention back to the ground near her. The trees were beautiful but still they were nothing compared to the ones she used to see from home, no matter how many miles she travelled Faline never could find trees like the ones her home used to have before the fire. A somber looked fell upon the doe’s face momentarily before she continued slowly stepping forward as if doing her best to make as little noise as possible. It had been years since her and others had fled the fire and yet life seemed to have moved on for her. She had spent a lot of time meeting other soquili, fallen in love a few times only for them to leave for someone else breaking her heart into their own various shattered like pieces. She had made new friends, a traveling healing uni who worked for an angeni who spent far too much time sleeping for her own good and a stallion and his mate in charge of a small healing group in the desert. Things were not at all what she had expected when she fled her home, yet still the feeling of homesickness lingered on days he was alone traveling, it made her wish to give up almost anything just to be able to go back and to see it all again. To see the faces, her family, the other cerynei she had once cared for, even her friends. When she had escaped she had spent days, months, years looking for any sign of any of them but nothing. There were others yes, others she recognized who lived in the herd and following herds but they were not the ones she had been searching for. The thought knowing that they had never escaped made her heart even more weary, but yet some reason she still kept moving forward. Faline would never give up, or at least not yet the doe thought her blue eyes watching a few birds dart to and from the small bushes that darted the ground. Even with all the sorrow lingering in her heart she wouldn’t give up, she would continue to keep to the woods watching over the trees, the small creatures that lived below the canopy and she would do whatever she could to protect them all. Even if it meant spending the rest of her life a lone she would do whatever she could.
