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Little droplets from above, feel on to the resting head of the stallion, causing him to stir. It took a few moments for him to process what was happening, look up just in time to have a drop land in his violet eyes. There was a flurry of blinking due to that offensive little drip, but it made him get up and take care of the issue. Splenden pulled a piece of his aged thatch roof back into place. He really did need to make some home improvements. It had been quite some time since he had last patched up his home to keep it proper and livable and loveable. His lavender fins and scales shimmered against the worn out wood of his home.
He gave his home a once over. Looking at all he needed to tend to, before the next batch of weather decided to come in and weather his home some more. The roof was a big priority, the floors could use some reinforcements as well. He would have to adjust his home’s alignment on its stilts as well. It would be a lot of work to keep it together ,but it wasn’t the first time that his home had been like this.

It was then he thought he would search the swamp for materials. He could remember a patch that had some time building supplies that would really spruce up the place. The idea excited him to the point where he happily, bounced off the deck, and into the knee deep swamp waters. He was prepared to pick his way through to get this goal done for the day. Splenden pranced through the swamp that he called home, the mud sticking to his fins a bit. It wouldn’t be too hard to get it off later.
On his way to the supplies, he spotted some color that wasn’t normal to the swamps, sure some had lovely flowers in them but not in true rainbow fashion. Splenden was drawn towards the strange but not unwanted change of his usual scenery. Once he was only a bit away, he started to approach with more caution. He could see the large shape through the trees. He wasn’t afraid, he was curious and wondering who this was. They didn’t seem to be from the area. He had been there all of his life.

“Excuse me?” Splenden perked towards the large quest to the swamp. He got up on to a clearer patch, his blue hooves covered in dark mossy swamp vegetation causing sharp contrast to the color of his pale blue legs. “Are you new here?”

Splenden poked his head out between two large trees as he spoke. The rest of him wouldn’t fit through the small space but he was fine with that.

He listened quietly, and didn’t wish for the other to become concerned for him, but still offered the truth on his situation. Splenden shook his head, and pulled it out from between the trees to move to a better spot to see the one he was making a conversation with. "I currently live here alone. I am just waiting." He offered as an explanation to his presence in the swamp. “Are you thinking of moving here? I don’t see many others here.” Splenden really analyzed the other, the bits of rainbow stood out the most, and the lantern that matched as well.

Some of the mud on his hoof was starting to itch for he rubbed it idly on the tree, the chuck fell off revealing his dark blue hooves. The hair around his hooves was still a little full of mud but it was okay, since the itchy part was gone.

"I see, that is okay. Its sometimes hard to live here." He acknowledged.There was no harm to be done in telling this other his story. He happily obliged. "When I was just a little colt, I remember a very pretty soquili that told me to stay put. I was really little and didn't understand why. But, I did, I have been waiting for her to come back to tell me it was okay to leave. I know that she wouldn't have want me to run off. So in the swamp I decided to stay." He titled his head a bit, as the other moved a bit. "I believe she was my caretaker. I don't think that most moms would leave their colt out in the swamp. Well at least without reason." His violet eyes looked up at the hanging moss on the trees. "Not sure when she left really...but I know back then I felt like I could never reach these mossy bits. Which was a shame because they make good blocks for the water that tries to come in the roof." He put his front hooves on the tree and pulled a piece down for the sake of doing it. He flicked the bit of moss on to his back he would use it later. "If that helps to give you any type of timeline."

Splenden caught it but if he had blinked he was sure he would have missed the wash of gloom that covered the features of the stallion before him. It wasn’t a lack of curiosity that kept him from asking what was so sad to him. Just that a new set of questioned had been posed before he could get to it.
“Yes. I have been here the whole time. I mean I had a lot of food left for me, and was told to take care of myself so I made sure to do those things.” It wasn’t clear to Splenden but he really was abandoned, but he didn’t get that is was necessarily bad at this point. For all he knew it was normal for people to grow up alone.

“Sure you can come see my home.” Splenden’s hooves sunk back into the swampy water and he started to pick his way back towards his home, “Follow me.” He moved through with relative ease, it was clear he had been there for a very long time.

“Well, I had to. I didn’t want to die.” Splenden said very softly. It was a hard truth, he had to really work hard to make it at times. While they walked together, Splenden tried to give his travel companion some space to move in. His own moving through the swamp was not too difficult now that he knew what he was doing and how to disperse his weight to not have any of his limbs sink into the ground. “Well I eat what I was left really, it had been a very heavy diet of vegetation I find.”

Before too long, they finally came to his humble and old looking home, he climbed up the steps, and gestured for his big new friend to come stand on the solid ground that was to the left of the front porch like area. “Here it is. My home.” He pulled the moss off his back and ripped a little piece off and balanced it on his nose, and pushed it into a hole on the ceiling. “Once that grows into place, I have a nice little all natural patch for my home.” He seemed very proud of the work he did.